Wallace Ford
Actor
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
Shadow of a Doubt
as Fred Saunders 1943
Spellbound
as Hotel masher 1945
Harvey
as The Taxi Driver 1950
The Man from Laramie
as Charley O'Leary 1955
The Set-Up
as Gus 1949
Warlock
as Judge Holloway 1959
Dead Reckoning
as McGee 1946
A Patch of Blue
as Ole Pa 1965
The Informer
as Frankie McPhillip 1935
The Mummy's Hand
as Babe Jenson 1940
T-Men
as The Schemer 1947
The Breaking Point
as F.R. Duncan 1950
The Mummy's Tomb
as Babe Hanson 1942
The Furies
as Scotty Hyslip 1950
The Lost Patrol
as Morelli 1934
All Through the Night
as Spats Hunter 1942