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Wallace Ford
Known for: ActingWallace Ford (12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English-born naturalized American stage and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-faced demeanor with a small but powerful, stocky physique. Born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he spent his childhood in a Dr. Barnardo's home. At an early age he was adopted by a farmer from Manitoba, Canada, where he was ill treated. About age eleven, Ford ran away and did odd jobs, later becoming an usher in a theatre. Following his discharge from the Army after WWI, he became a vaudeville actor in a stock company before performing on Broadway. He started on a film career when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave him a part in the film Possessed (1931) and went on to appear in over 200 films, including 13 directed by John Ford. Wallace Ford is buried in an unmarked grave in Culver City, California's Holy Cross Cemetery. From Wikipedia.
Filmography 54
The Deputy
as Marshal Herk Lamson 
The Man from Laramie
+7
as Charley O'Leary 
Destry
+2
as Doc Curtis 
Spellbound
as Stranger in Hotel Lobby 
Dead Reckoning
+6
as McGee 
Shadow of a Doubt
+3
as Fred Saunders 
Freaks
+9
as Phroso 
Harvey
+2
as The Taxi Driver 
T-Men
+5
as The Schemer 
Warlock
+5
as Judge Holloway 
A Patch of Blue
+4
as Ole Pa 
The Furies
as Scotty Hyslip 
The Set-Up
+2
as Gus 
The Rainmaker
+2
as Sheriff Howard Thomas 
The Mummy's Hand
+3
as Babe Jenson 
The Matchmaker
+3
as Malachi Stack 
The Lost Patrol
+4
as Morelli 
Magic Town
as Lou Dicketts 
All Through the Night
+4
as Spats Hunter 
He Ran All the Way
+3
as Fred Dobbs 
A Lawless Street
+3
as Dr. Amos Wynn 
Wichita
+2
as Arthur Whiteside 
The Last Hurrah
+4
as Charlie Hennessey 
The Breaking Point
+2
as F.R. Duncan 
The Whole Town's Talking
+2
as Healy 
Blues in the Night
+2
as Brad Ames (as Wally Ford) 
Blood on the Sun
+21
as Ollie Miller 
The Mummy's Tomb
+2
as Babe Hanson 
3 Ring Circus
as Sam Morley 
Possessed
as Al Manning 
Crack-Up
as Lt. Cochrane 
The Beast of the City
+3
as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick 
The Informer
+2
as Frankie McPhillip 
Black Angel
+2
as Joe 
Warpath
+1
as Pvt. 'Irish' Potts 
The Spoilers
+2
as Flapjack Simms 
A Man Betrayed
as Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter) 
Belle Starr's Daughter
+11
as Lafe Bailey 
Men in White
+2
as Shorty 
Shed No Tears
+2
as Sam Grover 
The Cross of Lorraine
as Pierre 
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
+10
as Jason H. 'Jay' Barton 
O.H.M.S.
as Jimmy Tracy 
Lucy Gallant
+2
as Gus Basserman 
Back Door to Heaven
+9
as Frankie Rogers 
The Man from Texas
+1
as Jed 
The Great Jesse James Raid
+1
as Elias Hobbs 
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
+2
as Sam Parks 
Night of Terror
+4
as Tom Hartley 
Flesh and Fury
+2
as Jack 'Pop' Richardson 
The Ape Man
+17
as Jeff Carter 
Roar of the Press
as Wally Williams 
A Woman's Man
+4
as Joe Flynn - Prizefighter
as Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins