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Wallace Ford was an English-born naturalized American vaudevillian, stage, film and television actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly faced demeanor with a small but powerful stocky physique.
Birth Name
Samuel Jones Grundy
Born
Saturday, 12 February 1898
Died
Saturday, 11 June 1966
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Detective Ed Fitzpatrick / Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage) | 2008 |
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Phroso / Babe Jenson | 2007 |
| Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas | Nick | 1977 |
| A Patch of Blue | Ole Pa | 1965 |
| The Great Adventure | Uncle Billy Smith | 1963 |
| The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters | Buffalo Pete | 1963 |
| Vacation Playhouse | Lester Tinney / Uncle Jonas | 1963 |
| Wide Country | Dad Perry | 1962 |
| Alcoa Premiere | Mike Fallon | 1961 |
| The Dick Powell Theatre | Judge | 1961 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Detective Ed Fitzpatrick / Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage) | 2008 |
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Phroso / Babe Jenson | 2007 |
| Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas | Nick | 1977 |
| A Patch of Blue | Ole Pa | 1965 |
| The Great Adventure | Uncle Billy Smith | 1963 |
| The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters | Buffalo Pete | 1963 |
| Vacation Playhouse | Lester Tinney / Uncle Jonas | 1963 |
| Wide Country | Dad Perry | 1962 |
| Alcoa Premiere | Mike Fallon | 1961 |
| The Dick Powell Theatre | Judge | 1961 |
| Tess of the Storm Country | Fred Thorson | 1960 |
| Peter Loves Mary | Uncle Charlie | 1960 |
| Klondike | Temperance Pete | 1960 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | Roger Hanover | 1960 |
| The Barbara Stanwyck Show | Harry | 1960 |
| The Deputy | Herk Lamson / Marshal Herk Lamson | 1959 |
| Warlock | Judge Holloway | 1959 |
| The Last Hurrah | Charles J. Hennessey / Charlie Hennessey | 1958 |
| Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Ringo | 1958 |
| Twilight for the Gods | Old Brown | 1958 |
| The Matchmaker | Malachi Stack | 1958 |
| Trackdown | Eli Zach | 1957 |
| The Court of Last Resort | William Markham | 1957 |
| Tales of Wells Fargo | Marshal F. X. Murphy | 1957 |
| Whirlybirds | Captain Morton | 1957 |
| Stagecoach to Fury | Judge Lester Farrell | 1956 |
| The Rainmaker | Sheriff Howard Thomas | 1956 |
| Playhouse 90 | Mule Rogers / Rebel | 1956 |
| The Sheriff of Cochise | Haywire Kelly | 1956 |
| Thunder Over Arizona | Hal Stiles / Stiles | 1956 |
| Johnny Concho | Albert Dark | 1956 |
| The First Texan | Henry Delaney | 1956 |
| The Maverick Queen | Jamie | 1956 |
| The Spoilers | Flapjack Simms | 1955 |
| A Lawless Street | Dr. Amos Wynn | 1955 |
| Lucy Gallant | Gus Basserman | 1955 |
| Screen Directors Playhouse | Ed Rawlings | 1955 |
| The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Monty Smith | 1955 |
| Kings Row | Uncle Ezra | 1955 |
| Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre | Boats | 1955 |
| The Man from Laramie | Charley O'Leary | 1955 |
| Wichita | Arthur Whiteside / Whiteside | 1955 |
| Damon Runyon Theater | Lt. Harrigan | 1955 |
| 3 Ring Circus | Sam Morley | 1954 |
| Destry | Doc Curtis | 1954 |
| The Magical World of Disney | Emory Packer | 1954 |
| Climax! | Sheriff / Samuel Cramer / Dr. Karl Wexdig / Bunco Kelly | 1954 |
| Father Knows Best | Nick | 1954 |
| Studio 57 | Sheriff George Thomas / Boats | 1954 |
| Lassie | Old Andrew | 1954 |
| The Whistler | Walter Mason / Billy Ford | 1954 |
| The Boy from Oklahoma | Walter "Wally" Higgins / Wally Higgins | 1954 |
| Inner Sanctum | Photographer | 1954 |
| The Nebraskan | 'Mac' McBride / Mac McBride | 1953 |
| The Great Jesse James Raid | Elias Hobbs | 1953 |
| She Couldn't Say No | Joe Wheelen | 1953 |
| General Electric Theater | (as Wally Ford) | 1953 |
| The Ford Television Theatre | Talker | 1952 |
| This Is Your Life | Self | 1952 |
| Campbell Summer Soundstage | Sam Jennings | 1952 |
| Flesh and Fury | Jack 'Pop' Richardson | 1952 |
| Rodeo | Barbecue Jones | 1952 |
| Death Valley Days | Buck Hansen | 1952 |
| Warpath | Pvt. 'Irish' Potts | 1951 |
| Schlitz Playhouse | Innkeeper | 1951 |
| Painting the Clouds with Sunshine | Sam Parks | 1951 |
| He Ran All the Way | Fred Dobbs | 1951 |
| Harvey | Ellis Logfren, The Taxi Driver / The Taxi Driver | 1950 |
| The Breaking Point | F.R. Duncan | 1950 |
| Life with Linkletter | Self - Actor | 1950 |
| The Furies | Scotty Hyslip | 1950 |
| Dakota Lil | Carter | 1950 |
| Red Stallion in the Rockies | 'Talky' Carson | 1949 |
| The Set-Up | Gus | 1949 |
| Belle Starr's Daughter | Lafe Bailey | 1948 |
| Embraceable You | Police Lt. Ferria | 1948 |
| Coroner Creek | Andy West | 1948 |
| Shed No Tears | Sam Grover | 1948 |
| The Man from Texas | Jed | 1948 |
| T-Men | The Schemer | 1947 |
| Magic Town | Lou Dicketts | 1947 |
| Dead Reckoning | McGee | 1947 |
| Crack-Up | Cochrane / Lt. Cochrane | 1946 |
| Black Angel | Joe | 1946 |
| Rendezvous with Annie | Al Morgan | 1946 |
| Lover Come Back | Tubbs | 1946 |
| The Green Years | Jamie Nigg | 1946 |
| A Guy Could Change | Bill Conley | 1946 |
| Spellbound | Stranger in Hotel Lobby / Hotel masher | 1945 |
| On Stage Everybody | Emmett Rogers | 1945 |
| The Great John L. | McManus | 1945 |
| Blood on the Sun | Ollie Miller | 1945 |
| Machine Gun Mama | John O'Reilly | 1944 |
| Secret Command | Miller | 1944 |
| The Cross of Lorraine | Pierre | 1943 |
| The Ape Man | Jeff B. Carter / Jeff Carter | 1943 |
| Shadow of a Doubt | Fred Saunders | 1943 |
| Seven Days' Leave | Sgt. Mead | 1942 |
| The Mummy's Tomb | Babe Hanson | 1942 |
| Scattergood Survives a Murder | Wally Collins | 1942 |
| Inside the Law | Billy | 1942 |
| All Through the Night | Spats Hunter | 1942 |
| Blues in the Night | Brad Ames (as Wally Ford) / Brad Ames | 1941 |
| Murder by Invitation | Bob White | 1941 |
| Roar of the Press | Wally Williams | 1941 |
| A Man Betrayed | Casey / Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter) | 1941 |
| Give Us Wings | Mr. York | 1940 |
| The Mummy's Hand | Babe Jenson | 1940 |
| Scatterbrain | Sam Maxwell | 1940 |
| Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! | Joe Redmond | 1940 |
| Two Girls on Broadway | Jed Marlowe | 1940 |
| Isle of Destiny | Millard 'Milly' Barnes / Millard Barnes | 1940 |
| Back Door to Heaven | Frankie Rogers | 1939 |
| The Marines Come Thru | Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins | 1938 |
| Swing It, Sailor! | Pete Kelly | 1938 |
| Exiled to Shanghai | Ted Young | 1937 |
| You're in the Army Now | Jimmy Tracy | 1937 |
| Dark Sands | Mike Clancy | 1937 |
| A Son Comes Home | Steve | 1936 |
| The Rogues' Tavern | Jimmy Kelly | 1936 |
| Absolute Quiet | Jack | 1936 |
| Two in the Dark | Harry Hillyer / Harry Hilyer | 1936 |
| Another Face | Joe Haynes - Press Agent / Joe Haynes, Press Agent | 1935 |
| Mary Burns, Fugitive | Harper | 1935 |
| She Couldn't Take It | 'Fingers' Boston / "Fingers" Boston | 1935 |
| Get That Man | John Prescott (II) / Jack Kirkland / John Prescott | 1935 |
| The Informer | Frankie McPhillip | 1935 |
| Men of the Hour | Andy Blane | 1935 |
| Swellhead | Terry McCall | 1935 |
| One Frightened Night | Joe Luvalle | 1935 |
| The Nut Farm | Willie Barton | 1935 |
| In Spite of Danger | Bob Crane | 1935 |
| The Whole Town's Talking | Healy | 1935 |
| The Man Who Reclaimed His Head | 'Curly' | 1934 |
| The Mysterious Mr. Wong | Jason H. 'Jay' Barton | 1934 |
| The Hollywood Gad-About | Self | 1934 |
| Money Means Nothing | Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay | 1934 |
| I Hate Women | Scoop McGuire | 1934 |
| Men in White | Shorty | 1934 |
| The Lost Patrol | Morelli | 1934 |
| A Woman's Man | Joe Flynn - Prizefighter | 1934 |
| East of Fifth Avenue | Vic Howard | 1933 |
| My Woman | Chick Rollins | 1933 |
| Goodbye Again | Arthur Westlake | 1933 |
| Three Cornered Moon | Kenneth Rimplegar | 1933 |
| Headline Shooter | Mike | 1933 |
| The Big Cage | Russ Penny | 1933 |
| Night of Terror | Tom Hartley | 1933 |
| Employees' Entrance | Martin West | 1933 |
| Hypnotized | Bill Bogard | 1932 |
| Central Park | Rick | 1932 |
| Skyscraper Souls | Slim | 1932 |
| The Wet Parade | Jerry Tyler | 1932 |
| Are You Listening? | Larry Barnes | 1932 |
| The Beast of the City | Ed Fitzpatrick / Det. Ed Fitzpatrick | 1932 |
| Freaks | Phroso | 1932 |
| X Marks the Spot | Ted Lloyd | 1931 |
| Possessed | Al Manning | 1931 |
| Married in Hollywood | Mitzi's Fan | 1929 |
