Wallace 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.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Patch of Blue (1965) | Ole Pa | 8 | |
| 2 | Warlock (1959) | Judge Holloway | 6.5 | |
| 3 | The Maverick Queen (1956) | Jamie | 1 | |
| 4 | The Rainmaker (1956) | Sheriff Howard Thomas | - | - |
| 5 | The Man from Laramie (1955) | Charley O'Leary | 7.5 | |
| 6 | Wichita (1955) | Arthur Whiteside | 5 | |
| 7 | Destry (1954) | Doc Curtis | - | - |
| 8 | He Ran All the Way (1951) | Fred Dobbs | 5 | |
| 9 | Harvey (1950) | The Taxi Driver | 8.5 | |
| 10 | The Furies (1950) | Scotty Hyslip | 6.5 | |
| 11 | The Set-Up (1949) | Gus | 8 | |
| 12 | Shed No Tears (1948) | Sam Grover | 5 | |
| 13 | T-Men (1947) | The Schemer | 5 | |
| 14 | Crack-Up (1946) | Lt. Cochrane | 4 | |
| 15 | The Green Years (1946) | Jamie Nigg | - | - |
| 16 | Black Angel (1946) | Joe | 7 | |
| 17 | Dead Reckoning (1946) | McGee | 6 | |
| 18 | Spellbound (1945) | Hotel masher | 8 | |
| 19 | Blood on the Sun (1945) | Ollie Miller | - | - |
| 20 | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | Fred Saunders | 7.7 | |
| 21 | All Through the Night (1942) | Spats Hunter | 6 | |
| 22 | The Mummy's Tomb (1942) | Babe Hanson | 7 | |
| 23 | Blues in the Night (1941) | Brad Ames (as Wally Ford) | 5 | |
| 24 | The Mummy's Hand (1940) | Babe Jenson | 7.5 | |
| 25 | Jericho (1937) | Mike Clancy | 5 | |
| 26 | The Informer (1935) | Frankie McPhillip | 5 | |
| 27 | Employees' Entrance (1933) | Martin West | 5 | |
| 28 | The Beast of the City (1932) | Detective Ed Fitzpatrick | 5 | |
| 29 | Freaks (1932) | Phroso | 7.4 | |
| 30 | Are You Listening? (1932) | Larry Barnes | 5 | |
| 31 | Possessed (1931) | Al Manning | 6 |
