Wallace Ford

Acting · Born 1898-02-11 in Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK

Biography

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,…

Filmography

• Spellbound as Hotel masher
• Black Angel as Joe
• Dead Reckoning as McGee
• The Beast of the City as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick
• Shadow of a Doubt as Fred Saunders
• The Mummy's Hand as Babe Jenson
• A Man Betrayed as Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)
• He Ran All the Way as Fred Dobbs
• Blues in the Night as Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)
• A Patch of Blue as Ole Pa