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Wallace Ford
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.
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As actor
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
A Patch of Blue
Bristle Face
Tess of the Storm Country
Warlock
The Last Hurrah
Twilight for the Gods
The Matchmaker
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
Johnny Concho
Thunder Over Arizona
The First Texan
Stagecoach To Fury
The Rainmaker
The Maverick Queen
A Lawless Street
The Man from Laramie
Wichita
Lucy Gallant
The Spoilers
3 Ring Circus
Destry
She Couldn't Say No
The Boy from Oklahoma
The Nebraskan
The Great Jesse James Raid
Flesh and Fury
Rodeo
He Ran All the Way