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Wallace Ford

Wallace Ford

Highest Rated: 100% The Man From Laramie (1955)

Lowest Rated: 29% The Mummy's Tomb (1942)

Birthday: Feb 12, 1898

Birthplace: Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK

Attractive, amiable character actor who specialized in charming ne'er-do-well's. After a Dickensian childhood (a London orphanage, 17 Canadian foster homes), Ford entered vaudeville as a teen and eventually appeared in more than a dozen Broadway plays. His more notable stage works were "Seventeen," the critically-derided hit "Abie's Irish Rose," "Come Back, Little Sheba" and as George in "Of Mice and Men." Ford made his film bow in 1931 and racked up an impressive resume of more than 100 films, mostly in small supporting roles. Freelancing both for major studios like MGM, Paramount and UA and Poverty Row houses like Monogram, Puritan and Republic, he labored through a good number of forgettable bombs. But Ford also turned in delightful performances in such well-regarded films as Joan Crawford's "Possessed" (1931), the horror classic "Freaks" (1932), the delightful screwballer "Three Cornered Moon" (1933), "The Informer" (1935), "Blues in the Night" (1941), "Spellbound" (1945), "Harvey" (1950), "The Rainmaker" (1956) and his last film, "A Patch of Blue" (1965).

Highest rated movies

100% The Man From Laramie
100% Wichita
100% T-Men
100% Shadow of a Doubt
100% All Through the Night
100% The Whole Town's Talking
100% The Lost Patrol
100% Employees' Entrance

Photos

EMPLOYEES' ENTRANCE, Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford, 1933 NIGHT OF TERROR, Wallace Ford, Sally Blane, Bela Lugosi, 1933 NIGHT OF TERROR, (back) Bela Lugosi, (front) George Meeker, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, 1933 NIGHT OF TERROR, Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, 1933 THREE-CORNERED MOON, Wallace Ford, 1933 THREE-CORNERED MOON, William Bakewell, Wallace Ford, Tom Brown, 1933 THREE-CORNERED MOON, Bottom: Lyda Roberti, Center: William Bakewell, Wallace Ford, Tom Brown, Joan Marsh, Back: Richard Arlen, Mary Boland, Claudette Colbert, Hardie Albright, 1933 THE GREEN YEARS, top row from left: Beverly Tyler, Wallace Ford, Norma Varden, Hume Cronyn, Tom Drake; middle: Jessica Tandy, Charles Coburn, Selena Royle; front: Norman Lloyd, 1946 O.H.M.S., (aka YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW), Wallace Ford, John Mills, 1937 BEAST OF THE CITY, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, 1932 FLESH AND FURY, Harry Raven (left), Tony Curtis (center), Wallace Ford (right), 1952 BACK DOOR TO HEAVEN, Wallace Ford (washing feet), 1939 GIVE US WINGS, from left, front, Shemp Howard, Wallace Ford, Bobby Jordan, Bernard Punsly; back, Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, 1940 O.H.M.S., (aka YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW), Wallace Ford, John Mills, 1937 ABSOLUTE QUIET, Louis Hayward, Bernadine Hayes, Wallace Ford, 1936 LOVE, HONOR AND OH BABY!, Wallace Ford, Donald Woods, 1940 THE BEAST OF THE CITY, Wallace Ford, Jean Harlow, 1932 T-MEN, from left: Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder, Jack Overman, 1947 BEAST OF THE CITY, Jean Hersholt, Wallace Ford, Jean Harlow, J. Carrol Naish, 1932 ABSOLUTE QUIET, Lionel Atwill, Wallace Ford, Bernadene Hayes, 1936
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
89% 91% A Patch of Blue Ole Pa (Character) - 1965
80% 77% Warlock Judge Holloway (Character) - 1959
86% 81% The Last Hurrah Charles J. Hennessey (mayoral candidate) (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet 59% The Matchmaker Malachi Stack (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Twilight for the Gods Old Brown (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet 17% The Spoilers Flapjack Simms (Character) - 1956
80% 64% The Rainmaker Sheriff Howard Thomas (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stagecoach to Fury Judge Lester Farrell (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Thunder Over Arizona Hal Stiles (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 43% The First Texan Henry Delaney (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 57% Destry Doc Curtis (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 50% A Lawless Street Dr. Amos Wynn (Character) - 1955
100% 79% The Man From Laramie Charley O'Leary (Character) - 1955
100% 65% Wichita Arthur Whiteside (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lucy Gallant Gus Basserman (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 44% The Maverick Queen Jamie (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 47% Three Ring Circus Sam Morley (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Boy From Oklahoma Wally Higgins (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Great Jesse James Raid Elias Hobbs (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet 43% She Couldn't Say No Joe Wheelen (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Nebraskan 'Mac' McBride (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 75% Flesh and Fury Jack 'Pop' Richardson (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rodeo Barbecue Jones (Character) - 1952
88% 68% He Ran All the Way Fred Dobbs (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 50% Painting the Clouds With Sunshine Sam Parks (Character) - 1951
87% 93% Harvey The Taxi Driver (Character) - 1950
92% 80% The Furies Scotty Hyslip (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dakota Lil Carter (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet Red Stallion in the Rockies "Talky" Carson (Character) - 1949
85% 89% The Set-Up Gus (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lock Your Doors Jeff B. Carter (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet Belle Starr's Daughter Lafe Bailey (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 60% Shed No Tears Sam Grover (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 70% Coroner Creek Andy West (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Embraceable You Police Lt. Ferria (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Man From Texas Jed (Character) - 1947
50% 36% Magic Town Lou Dicketts (Character) - 1947
100% 75% T-Men The Schemer (Character) - 1947
78% 67% Dead Reckoning McGee (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 43% Crack-Up Lt. Cochrane (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 62% Black Angel Joe (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet When Lovers Meet Tubbs (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 53% The Green Years Jamie Nigg (Character) - 1946
86% 82% Spellbound Stranger in Hotel Lobby (Character) - 1945
80% 35% Blood on the Sun Ollie Miller (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet On Stage Everybody Emmett Rogers (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Great John L. McManus (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet Machine Gun Mama John O'Reilly (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Secret Command Miller (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 14% The Ape Man Jeff B. Carter (Character) - 1943
100% 89% Shadow of a Doubt Fred Saunders (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Inside the Law Billy (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 14% Seven Days Leave Sergeant Mead (Character) - 1942
29% 22% The Mummy's Tomb Babe' Hanson (Character) - 1942
100% 71% All Through the Night Spats Hunter (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Man Betrayed Casey (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 58% Blues in the Night Brad Ames (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Roar of the Press Wally Williams (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Murder by Invitation Bob White (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 10% Wheel of Fortune Casey (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 12% Two Girls on Broadway Jed Marlowe (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Isle of Destiny `'Milly'` Barnes (Character) - 1940
60% 47% The Mummy's Hand Babe Jenson (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Give Us Wings Mr. York (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 20% Back Door to Heaven Frankie Rogers (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Marines Come Thru Pvt. Stebbins (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet He Loved an Actress Peter Jackson (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet You're in the Army Now Jimmy Tracy (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Swing It, Sailor! Pete Kelly (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Exiled to Shanghai Ted Young (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mad About Money Peter Jackson (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stardust Peter Jackson (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 67% Jericho Mike Clancy (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 12% The Rogue's Tavern Jimmy Kelly (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Two in the Dark Harry Hillyer (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Absolute Quiet Jack (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Another Face Joe Haynes (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 17% Mysterious Mr. Wong Jason H. 'Jay' Barton (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Get That Man Jack Kirkland/John Prescott (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Nut Farm Willie Barton (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet One Frightened Night Joe Luvalle (as Wally Ford) (Character) - 1935
89% 77% The Informer Frankie McPhillip (Character) - 1935
100% 78% The Whole Town's Talking Healy (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet She Couldn't Take It Fingers Boston (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 36% Men in White Shorty (Character) - 1934
100% 65% The Lost Patrol Morelli (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Money Means Nothing Kenneth "Kenny" McKay (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Woman's Man Joe Flynn (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 29% Night of Terror Tom Hartley (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Woman Chick Rollins (Character) - 1933
100% 79% Employees' Entrance Martin West (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Big Cage Russ Penny (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 30% Three Cornered Moon Kenneth Rimplegar (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Headline Shooter Mike (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Goodbye Again Arthur Westlake (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Central Park Rick (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hypnotized Bill Bogard (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 64% The Beast of the City Det. Ed Fitzpatrick (Character) - 1932
95% 88% Freaks Phroso (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 38% The Wet Parade Jerry Tyler (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 42% Skyscraper Souls Slim (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 69% Possessed Al Manning (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Possessed Unknown (Character) - 1931

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 100% The Andy Griffith Show Roger Hanover (Guest Star) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Timmy & Lassie Unknown (Guest Star) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lassie Old Andrew (Guest Star) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Deputy Unknown (Guest Star) 1959-1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Father Knows Best Unknown (Guest Star) 1954 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trackdown Eli Zach (Guest Star) 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Climax! Unknown (Character) 1955-1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Screen Directors Playhouse Unknown (Character) 1956