Wallace Ford
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, 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
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
as Self (archive footage)
A Patch of Blue
1965
as Ole Pa
Bristle Face
1964
as Emory Packer
Tess of the Storm Country
1960
as Fred Thorson
Warlock
1959
as Judge Holloway
The Last Hurrah
1958
as Charlie Hennessey
Twilight for the Gods
1958
as Old Brown
The Matchmaker
1958
as Malachi Stack
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
1957
as Rebel
Stagecoach To Fury
1956
as Judge Lester Farrell
The Rainmaker
1956
as Sheriff Howard Thomas
Thunder Over Arizona
1956
as Stiles
Johnny Concho
1956
as Albert Dark
The First Texan
1956
as Henry Delaney
The Maverick Queen
1956
as Jamie
The Spoilers
1955
as Flapjack Simms
A Lawless Street
1955
as Dr. Amos Wynn
Lucy Gallant
1955
as Gus Basserman
The Man from Laramie
1955
as Charley O'Leary
Wichita
1955
as Arthur Whiteside
3 Ring Circus
1954
as Sam Morley
Destry
1954
as Doc Curtis
The Boy from Oklahoma
1954
as Walter "Wally" Higgins