Cast & creator
Wallace Ford
Best known for The Andy Griffith Show, Climax!, Climax!
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.
Also known as: Samuel Jones Grundy, Wally Ford, Samuel Grundy Jones
123
film credits
27
television credits
150
1929–2008 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (150)
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The Andy Griffith Show
Roger Hanover
1960
Climax!
Bunco Kelly
1954Climax!
Sheriff
1954Climax!
Dr. Karl Wexdig
1954Climax!
Samuel Cramer
1954
Studio One
1948
Father Knows Best
1954
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Monty Smith
1955
The Ford Television Theatre
Talker
1952
Studio 57
Boats
1954
This Is Your Life
Self
1952
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Harry
1960
Trackdown
Eli Zach
1957
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
The Deputy
Herk Lamson
1959The Deputy
Marshal Herk Lamson
1959
Screen Director's Playhouse
Ed Rawlings
1955
The Great Adventure
Uncle Billy Smith
1963
The Wonderful World of Disney
Emory Packer
1954
Inner Sanctum
1954Vacation Playhouse
Lester Tinney
1963
The Whistler
1954
Shadow of a Doubt
Fred Saunders
1943
Freaks
Phroso
1932
Peter Loves Mary
1960
Spellbound
Stranger in Hotel Lobby
1945
The Motorola Television Hour
1953
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Innkeeper
1951
The Man from Laramie
Charley O'Leary
1955
Warlock
Judge Holloway
1959
A Patch of Blue
Ole Pa
1965
Harvey
The Taxi Driver
1950
Magic Town
Lou Dicketts
1947
All Through the Night
Spats Hunter
1942
Destry
Doc Curtis
1954
The Lost Patrol
Morelli
1934
The Mummy's Hand
Babe Jenson
1940
T-Men
The Schemer
1947
Possessed
Al Manning
1931
The Furies
Scotty Hyslip
1950
Dead Reckoning
McGee
1946
He Ran All the Way
Fred Dobbs
1951
Blood on the Sun
Ollie Miller
1945
A Lawless Street
Dr. Amos Wynn
1955
The Matchmaker
Malachi Stack
1958
The Mummy's Tomb
Babe Hanson
1942
The Breaking Point
F.R. Duncan
1950
The Cross of Lorraine
Pierre
1943
She Couldn't Say No
Joe Wheelen
1954
The Set-Up
Gus
1949
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)
2008
The Last Hurrah
Charlie Hennessey
1958
The Rainmaker
Sheriff Howard Thomas
1956
The Boy from Oklahoma
Walter "Wally" Higgins
1954
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
1987
She Couldn't Take It
"Fingers" Boston
1935
The Whole Town's Talking
Healy
1935
Belle Starr's Daughter
Lafe Bailey
1948
The Maverick Queen
Jamie
1956
The Beast of the City
Detective Ed Fitzpatrick
1932
Black Angel
Joe
1946
3 Ring Circus
Sam Morley
1954Kings Row
1955
Lucy Gallant
Gus Basserman
1955
Blues in the Night
Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)
1941
Two in the Dark
Harry Hilyer
1936
Men of the Hour
Andy Blane
1935
Wichita
Arthur Whiteside
1955
X Marks the Spot
Ted Lloyd
1931
Scatterbrain
Sam Maxwell
1940
The First Texan
Henry Delaney
1956
Skyscraper Souls
Slim
1932
The Informer
Frankie McPhillip
1935
The Spoilers
Flapjack Simms
1955
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
Sam Parks
1951
Hypnotized
Bill Bogard
1932
Tess of the Storm Country
Fred Thorson
1960
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
Jason H. 'Jay' Barton
1935
Warpath
Pvt. 'Irish' Potts
1951
Two Girls on Broadway
Jed Marlowe
1940
The Great John L.
McManus
1945
Twilight for the Gods
Old Brown
1958
The Green Years
Jamie Nigg
1946
Crack-Up
Lt. Cochrane
1946
My Woman
Chick Rollins
1933
Night of Terror
Tom Hartley
1933
Johnny Concho
Albert Dark
1956
Flesh and Fury
Jack 'Pop' Richardson
1952
Rodeo
Barbecue Jones
1952
Bristle Face
Emory Packer
1964
The Man from Texas
Jed
1948
A Woman's Man
Joe Flynn - Prizefighter
1934
Give Us Wings
Mr. York
1940
Shed No Tears
Sam Grover
1948
Isle Of Destiny
Millard Barnes
1940
Employees' Entrance
Martin West
1933
O.H.M.S.
Jimmy Tracy
1937
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Wally Collins
1942
The Great Jesse James Raid
Elias Hobbs
1953
The Hollywood Gad-About
Self (uncredited)
1934
Back Door to Heaven
Frankie Rogers
1939
East of Fifth Avenue
Vic Howard
1933
Roar of the Press
Wally Williams
1941
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
Joe Redmond
1940
A Guy Could Change
Bill Conley
1946
Another Face
Joe Haynes, Press Agent
1935
In Spite of Danger
Bob Crane
1935
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
'Curly'
1934
On Stage Everybody
Emmett Rogers
1945
The Big Cage
Russ Penny
1933
Are You Listening?
Larry Barnes
1932
Red Stallion In The Rockies
'Talky' Carson
1949
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Harper
1935
A Son Comes Home
Steve
1936The Marines Come Thru
Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins
1938
The Wet Parade
Jerry Tyler
1932
Swellhead
Terry McCall
1935
I Hate Women
Scoop McGuire
1934
The Nebraskan
'Mac' McBride
1953
The Rogues' Tavern
Jimmy Kelly
1936
A Man Betrayed
Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)
1941
The Ape Man
Jeff Carter
1943
Goodbye Again
Arthur Westlake
1933
Three Cornered Moon
Kenneth Rimplegar
1933
Headline Shooter
Mike
1933
Secret Command
Miller
1944
One Frightened Night
Joe Luvalle
1935
Coroner Creek
Andy West
1948
The Nut Farm
Willie Barton
1935
Men in White
Shorty
1934
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
Rebel
1957
Stagecoach To Fury
Judge Lester Farrell
1956
Jericho
Mike Clancy
1937
Swing It, Sailor!
Pete Kelly
1938
Rendezvous with Annie
Al Morgan
1946
Embraceable You
Police Lt. Ferria
1948
Lover Come Back
Tubbs
1946
Murder by Invitation
Bob White
1941
Married in Hollywood
Mitzi's Fan (uncredited)
1929
Inside the Law
Billy
1942
Dakota Lil
Carter
1950
Central Park
Rick
1932
Absolute Quiet
Jack
1936
Thunder Over Arizona
Stiles
1956
Stardust
Peter Jackson
1938
Machine Gun Mama
John O'Reilly
1944
Exiled to Shanghai
Ted Young
1937
Get That Man
Jack Kirkland / John Prescott
1935
Money Means Nothing
Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay
1934