Wallace Ford

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Wallace Ford

Born 1898-02-11 Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK 123 films

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 eleve…

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Filmography

123 films
A Man Betrayed poster

A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politic…

A Man Betrayed

★ 5.5 1941

Give Us Wings poster

Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, w…

Give Us Wings

★ 7.3 1940

Scatterbrain poster

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract…

Scatterbrain

★ 7.5 1940