Wallace Ford

Actor 1929–2008 (79 year career)

5.7 avg rating

Highest Rated

The Nut Farm

1935 · as Willie Barton

8.0

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954 · as Emory Packer

7.8

Freaks

1932 · as Phroso

7.8

Known For

Film

Freaks

Phroso

Film

Shadow of a Doubt

Fred Saunders

Film

Spellbound

Hotel masher

Film

Harvey

The Taxi Driver

Film

The Man from Laramie

Charley O'Leary

Film

The Set-Up

Gus

Film

A Patch of Blue

Ole Pa

Film

Dead Reckoning

McGee

Filmography

Acting (146)

Movies (123)

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

2008

as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)

6.1

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

1987

as Self (archive footage)

A Patch of Blue

as Ole Pa

Bristle Face

as Emory Packer

Tess of the Storm Country

1960

as Fred Thorson

Warlock

as Judge Holloway

The Last Hurrah

as Charlie Hennessey

Twilight for the Gods

as Old Brown

The Matchmaker

as Malachi Stack

Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses

1957

as Rebel

Thunder Over Arizona

as Stiles

The Maverick Queen

as Jamie

The Rainmaker

as Sheriff Howard Thomas

6.7

Stagecoach To Fury

1956

as Judge Lester Farrell

The First Texan

as Henry Delaney

Johnny Concho

as Albert Dark

A Lawless Street

as Dr. Amos Wynn

The Man from Laramie

as Charley O'Leary

Wichita

as Arthur Whiteside

Lucy Gallant

as Gus Basserman

The Spoilers

as Flapjack Simms

Destry

as Doc Curtis

3 Ring Circus

as Sam Morley

The Boy from Oklahoma

1954

as Walter "Wally" Higgins

She Couldn't Say No

as Joe Wheelen

The Nebraskan

as 'Mac' McBride

The Great Jesse James Raid

1953

as Elias Hobbs

4.7

Rodeo

1952

as Barbecue Jones

Flesh and Fury

1952

as Jack 'Pop' Richardson

6.1

Warpath

1951

as Pvt. 'Irish' Potts

5.8

He Ran All the Way

1951

as Fred Dobbs

7.2

Painting the Clouds with Sunshine

as Sam Parks

Harvey

as The Taxi Driver

The Breaking Point

as F.R. Duncan

The Furies

as Scotty Hyslip

Dakota Lil

as Carter

The Set-Up

as Gus

Red Stallion In The Rockies

1949

as 'Talky' Carson

The Man from Texas

as Jed

Coroner Creek

as Andy West

Shed No Tears

as Sam Grover

Belle Starr's Daughter

as Lafe Bailey

Embraceable You

as Police Lt. Ferria

Magic Town

as Lou Dicketts

T-Men

as The Schemer

Rendezvous with Annie

as Al Morgan

The Green Years

as Jamie Nigg

Dead Reckoning

as McGee

Black Angel

as Joe

Lover Come Back

as Tubbs

Crack-Up

as Lt. Cochrane

A Guy Could Change

as Bill Conley

The Great John L.

as McManus

Spellbound

as Hotel masher

On Stage Everybody

as Emmett Rogers

Blood on the Sun

as Ollie Miller

Secret Command

as Miller

Machine Gun Mama

as John O'Reilly

Shadow of a Doubt

as Fred Saunders

The Ape Man

as Jeff Carter

The Cross of Lorraine

1943

as Pierre

6.3

Scattergood Survives a Murder

as Wally Collins

Inside the Law

as Billy

All Through the Night

as Spats Hunter

The Mummy's Tomb

as Babe Hanson

A Man Betrayed

as Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)

Murder by Invitation

as Bob White

Blues in the Night

as Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)

Roar of the Press

as Wally Williams

Scatterbrain

as Sam Maxwell

Isle Of Destiny

as Millard Barnes

The Mummy's Hand

as Babe Jenson

Two Girls on Broadway

1940

as Jed Marlowe

6.6

Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!

1940

as Joe Redmond

Give Us Wings

as Mr. York

Back Door to Heaven

as Frankie Rogers

Swing It, Sailor!

as Pete Kelly

The Marines Come Thru

1938

as Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins

Stardust

as Peter Jackson

Exiled to Shanghai

as Ted Young

Jericho

as Mike Clancy

O.H.M.S.

as Jimmy Tracy

A Son Comes Home

as Steve

Two in the Dark

as Harry Hilyer

The Rogues' Tavern

as Jimmy Kelly

Absolute Quiet

as Jack

Swellhead

as Terry McCall

The Informer

1935

as Frankie McPhillip

6.8

Get That Man

1935

as Jack Kirkland / John Prescott

3.0

The Whole Town's Talking

as Healy

The Nut Farm

as Willie Barton

Mary Burns, Fugitive

as Harper

In Spite of Danger

as Bob Crane

She Couldn't Take It

as "Fingers" Boston

Another Face

as Joe Haynes, Press Agent

4.2

The Mysterious Mr. Wong

1935

as Jason H. 'Jay' Barton

One Frightened Night

as Joe Luvalle

Men of the Hour

as Andy Blane

A Woman's Man

1934

as Joe Flynn - Prizefighter

4.0

Money Means Nothing

1934

as Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay

4.0

The Hollywood Gad-About

as Self (uncredited)

Men in White

as Shorty

I Hate Women

as Scoop McGuire

The Lost Patrol

1934

as Morelli

6.5

The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

as 'Curly'

My Woman

as Chick Rollins

Employees' Entrance

as Martin West

The Big Cage

as Russ Penny

Goodbye Again

as Arthur Westlake

Night of Terror

as Tom Hartley

Headline Shooter

as Mike

Three Cornered Moon

as Kenneth Rimplegar

East of Fifth Avenue

as Vic Howard

Freaks

as Phroso

Hypnotized

as Bill Bogard

The Beast of the City

1932

as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick

Skyscraper Souls

as Slim

The Wet Parade

as Jerry Tyler

Are You Listening?

as Larry Barnes

Central Park

as Rick

X Marks the Spot

as Ted Lloyd

Possessed

as Al Manning

Married in Hollywood

as Mitzi's Fan (uncredited)

Television (23)

The Great Adventure

1963

as Uncle Billy Smith

Vacation Playhouse

1963

as Lester Tinney

7.0

The Andy Griffith Show

1960

as Roger Hanover

7.6

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Harry

Peter Loves Mary

The Deputy

as Herk Lamson

The Deputy

as Marshal Herk Lamson

6.2

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Trackdown

as Eli Zach

The 20th Century Fox Hour

1955

as Monty Smith

5.4

Screen Director's Playhouse

as Ed Rawlings

Kings Row

Climax!

as Bunco Kelly

Studio 57

as Boats

The Wonderful World of Disney

as Emory Packer

Father Knows Best

Inner Sanctum

The Whistler

The Motorola Television Hour

1953

This Is Your Life

1952

as Self

6.4

The Ford Television Theatre

1952

as Talker

7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Studio One