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
• Shadow of a Doubt as Fred Saunders
• The Man from Laramie as Charley O'Leary
• Harvey as The Taxi Driver
• Freaks as Phroso
• Black Angel as Joe
• Dead Reckoning as McGee
• The Beast of the City as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick
• The Mummy's Hand as Babe Jenson
• A Man Betrayed as Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)

TV

• The Andy Griffith Show as Roger Hanover
• Studio One
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
• Father Knows Best
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
• This Is Your Life as Self
• Climax! as Bunco Kelly
• The Deputy as Herk Lamson
• Inner Sanctum
• Vacation Playhouse as Lester Tinney