Birthday
1898/02/11
Day of death
1966/06/11 (68 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Also know as
Samuel Jones Grundy, Wally Ford, Samuel Grundy Jones
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...Read more
(1945) Spellbound
as Hotel masher
(1946) Black Angel
as Joe
(1946) Dead Reckoning
as McGee
(1932) The Beast of the City
as Det. Ed Fitzpatrick
(1943) Shadow of a Doubt
as Fred Saunders
(1940) The Mummy's Hand
as Babe Jenson
(1941) A Man Betrayed
as Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)
(1951) He Ran All the Way
as Fred Dobbs
(1941) Blues in the Night
as Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)
(1965) A Patch of Blue
as Ole Pa
(1946) Crack-Up
as Lt. Cochrane
(1947) T-Men
as The Schemer
(1950) The Furies
as Scotty Hyslip
(1942) The Mummy's Tomb
as Babe Hanson
(1935) One Frightened Night
as Joe Luvalle
(1942) All Through the Night
as Spats Hunter
(1955) A Lawless Street
as Dr. Amos Wynn
(1956) Johnny Concho
as Albert Dark
(1948) Coroner Creek
as Andy West
(1959) Warlock
as Judge Holloway
(1943) The Ape Man
as Jeff Carter
(1933) Employees' Entrance
as Martin West
(1935) The Informer
as Frankie McPhillip
(1954) 3 Ring Circus
as Sam Morley
(1939) Back Door to Heaven
as Frankie Rogers
(1950) The Breaking Point
as F.R. Duncan
(1935) The Mysterious Mr. Wong
as Jason H. 'Jay' Barton
(1949) The Set-Up
as Gus
(1934) The Lost Patrol
as Morelli
(1955) The Man from Laramie
as Charley O'Leary
(1936) The Rogues' Tavern
as Jimmy Kelly
(1935) The Whole Town's Talking
as Healy
(1944) Secret Command
as Miller
(1948) Shed No Tears
as Sam Grover
(1931) Possessed
as Al Manning
(1933) Three-Cornered Moon
as Kenneth Rimplegar
(1958) The Last Hurrah
as Charlie Hennessey
(1956) Thunder Over Arizona
as Stiles
(1954) Destry
as Doc Curtis
(1943) The Cross of Lorraine
as Pierre
(1952) Flesh and Fury
as Jack 'Pop' Richardson
(1946) The Green Years
as Jamie Nigg
(1934) Men in White
as Shorty
(1935) Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Harper
(1954) She Couldn't Say No
as Joe Wheelen
(1948) The Man from Texas
as Jed
(1951) Warpath
as Pvt. 'Irish' Potts
(1955) Wichita
as Arthur Whiteside
(1956) The First Texan
as Henry Delaney
(1932) The Wet Parade
as Jerry Tyler
(1935) Swellhead
as Terry McCall
(1931) X Marks the Spot
as Ted Lloyd
(1942) Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Wally Collins
(1937) Exiled to Shanghai
as Ted Young
(1933) Night of Terror
as Tom Hartley
(1932) Are You Listening?
as Larry Barnes
(1934) Money Means Nothing
as Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay
(1948) Embraceable You
as Police Lt. Ferria
(1933) Headline Shooter
as Mike
(1935) The Nut Farm
as Willie Barton
(1937) O.H.M.S.
as Jimmy Tracy
(1936) Two in the Dark
as Harry Hilyer
(1956) Stagecoach To Fury
as Judge Lester Farrell
(1944) Machine Gun Mama
as John O'Reilly
(1936) Absolute Quiet
as Jack
(1932) Central Park
as Rick
(1954) The Boy from Oklahoma
as Walter "Wally" Higgins
(1953) The Nebraskan
as 'Mac' McBride
(1942) Inside the Law
as Billy
(1935) Get That Man
as Jack Kirkland / John Prescott
(1941) Murder by Invitation
as Bob White
(1953) The Great Jesse James Raid
as Elias Hobbs
(1933) Goodbye Again
as Arthur Westlake
(1946) Lover Come Back
as Tubbs
(1934) A Woman's Man
as Joe Flynn - Prizefighter
(1940) Isle Of Destiny
as Millard Barnes
(1938) Swing It, Sailor!
as Pete Kelly
(1950) Dakota Lil
as Carter
(1934) I Hate Women
as Scoop McGuire
(1935) Another Face
as Joe Haynes, Press Agent
(1935) She Couldn't Take It
as "Fingers" Boston
(1933) East of Fifth Avenue
as Vic Howard
(1940) Give Us Wings
as Mr. York
(1947) Magic Town
as Lou Dicketts
(1956) The Rainmaker
as Sheriff Howard Thomas
(1940) Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
as Joe Redmond
(1952) Rodeo
as Barbecue Jones
(1940) Scatterbrain
as Sam Maxwell
(1933) My Woman
as Chick Rollins
(1932) Skyscraper Souls
as Slim
(1932) Hypnotized
as Bill Bogard
(1937) Jericho
as Mike Clancy
(1950) Harvey
as The Taxi Driver
(1948) Belle Starr's Daughter
as Lafe Bailey
(1949) Red Stallion In The Rockies
as 'Talky' Carson
(1940) Two Girls on Broadway
as Jed Marlowe
(1936) A Son Comes Home
as Steve
(1946) Rendezvous with Annie
as Al Morgan
(1960) Tess of the Storm Country
as Fred Thorson
(1938) The Marines Come Thru
as Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins
(1945) The Great John L.
as McManus
(1933) The Big Cage
as Russ Penny
(1951) Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
as Sam Parks
(1946) A Guy Could Change
as Bill Conley
(1955) Lucy Gallant
as Gus Basserman
(1945) Blood on the Sun
as Ollie Miller
(1955) The Spoilers
as Flapjack Simms
(1941) Roar of the Press
as Wally Williams
(1956) The Maverick Queen
as Jamie
(1929) Married in Hollywood
as Mitzi's Fan (uncredited)
(1958) Twilight for the Gods
as Old Brown
(1934) The Hollywood Gad-About
as Self (uncredited)
(1958) The Matchmaker
as Malachi Stack
(1945) On Stage Everybody
as Emmett Rogers
(1938) Stardust
as Peter Jackson
(2008) Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)
(1988) James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
(1964) Bristle Face
as Emory Packer
(1932) Freaks
as Phroso
(1935) In Spite of Danger
as Bob Crane
(1934) The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
as 'Curly'
(1960) The Andy Griffith Show
as Roger Hanover
(1963) The Great Adventure
as Uncle Billy Smith
(1957) Trackdown
as ---
(1948) Studio One
as ---
(1958) Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as ---
(1954) Father Knows Best
as ---
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as ---
(1952) This Is Your Life
as Self
(1954) Climax!
as Bunco Kelly
(1959) The Deputy
as Herk Lamson
(1954) The Whistler
as ---
(1954) Inner Sanctum
as ---
(1963) Vacation Playhouse
as Lester Tinney
(1960) Peter Loves Mary
as ---
(1955) Kings Row
as ---
(1960) The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Harry
(1955) The 20th Century Fox Hour
as Monty Smith
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Innkeeper
(1959) The Deputy
as Marshal Herk Lamson
(1954) Climax!
as Sheriff
(1954) Climax!
as Dr. Karl Wexdig
(1954) Climax!
as Samuel Cramer
(1955) Screen Director's Playhouse
as Ed Rawlings
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Emory Packer
(1952) The Ford Television Theatre
as Talker
(1954) Studio 57
as Boats