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Actor Facts
Death:
June 11, 1966
Biography:
A stocky, friendly-faced character actor, Ford was born Samuel Jones in England and lived for a while in an orphanage after being separated from his parents. While still young, he was sent to a Toronto branch of the orphanage. At age 11, after living in 17 foster homes, he ran away and joined a vaudeville troupe called the Winnepeg Kiddies. ...more about Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
3.1306
45
1940s
2.5187
36
1950s
2.1066
30
1960s
1.4343
2
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards for each movie.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.4558
2.4558Wallace Ford Movie Rankings
1
3.6888An Alfred Hitchcock film about a girl named Charlie who feels her life is becoming very mundane. Her world becomes much more interesting when she receives a surprise visit from her favorite uncle of the same name. ...more about Shadow of a Doubt
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
2
3.2254Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. ...more about Whole Town's Talking
- Not Available on DVD
3
3.0651A carnival barker displays a sideshow freak called the Feathered Hen and tells her story. Cleopatra, a trapeze artist with the carnival, is adored by a midget named Hans. ...more about Freaks
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
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4
2.8463Mysterious Will Lockhart delivers supplies to storekeeper Barbara Waggoman at Coronado, an isolated town in Apache country. Before long, he's tangled with Dave Waggoman, vicious son of autocratic rancher Alec and cousin of sweet Barbara. ...more about Man from Laramie
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
5
2.8357A middle aged drunk has been driving his sister and niece wild by introducing everyone he meets to his pal Harvey. ...more about Harvey
- DVD Best Pricing:
Wal Mart
6
2.8100Kirk Bennett is falsely sentenced to death for killing blackmailer Mavis Marlowe, ex-wife of nice-guy drunk Martin Blair. Bennett's stand-up wife Catherine tries to prove him innocent, enlisting the aid of Blair, who falls in love with her. ...more about Black Angel
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
7
2.7381A couple of comical, out-of-work archaeologists (Dick Foran and Wallace Ford) in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. ...more about Mummy's Hand
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
8
2.7122Aspirations and the lives of several people working at the gigantic Seacoast National Bank Building interweave in various plots. ...more about Skyscraper Souls
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.7095Over-the-hill boxer Bill 'Stoker' Thompson insists he can still win, though his sexy wife Julie pleads with him to quit. But his manager Tiny is so confident he will lose, he takes money for a "dive" from tough gambler Little Boy... ...more about Set-Up
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
10
2.6834Rip Murdock and Johnny Darke are en route to Washington when Johnny disappears and then turns up dead. Rip learns that Johnny had been accused of murder and sets out to find out what he can. ...more about Dead Reckoning
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
11
2.5880A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotomian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. ...more about Lost Patrol
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
12
2.5844Nick Condon is a newspaper reporter working in Tokyo who refuses to toe the Japanese line on the expansionist policies of the anti-democratic Imperialist government. ...more about Blood on the Sun
- DVD Best Pricing:
Amazon
13
2.5387Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical owner of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. ...more about Employees' Entrance
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.5204A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important that attending a cocktail party. ...more about Men in White
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.5204Sprawling story of Prohibition set against two families and how they are affected by booze. The stories come together when two young people (Robert Young, Dorothy Jordan) join in a common fight against liquor because it has destroyed their families. ...more about Wet Parade
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.5089A black professional man meets a blind white girl in the park one day. The tray of colored beads she strings for a living has been turned over and he helps her put them back in order. ...more about Patch of Blue
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
18
2.4688An aging politician (Spencer Tracy) tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. ...more about Last Hurrah
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
19
2.4154Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. He asks his dishonest brother Ed to keep an eye on Daisy who was connected with Belmonte. ...more about Beast of the City
- Not Available on DVD
20
2.4139George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night, convinced he was in a train wreck...which never happened. ...more about Crack-Up
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.3638As usual with most of the RKO films from this era "presented" by RKO-owner Howard Hughes, the PCA number is usually 500-1000 digits lower than the one from other studios being released at the time, indicating it was released a year or more after it was ...more about She Couldn't Say No
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.3347Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. ...more about Magic Town
- Not Available on DVD
24
2.2885A high priest travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier. ...more about Mummy's Tomb
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
25
2.2800Conducting weird scientific experiments, crazed Dr. James Brewster, aided by his colleague Dr. Randall, has managed to transform himself into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man. ...more about Ape Man
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
26
2.1460Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. ...more about Possessed
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.1095A brilliant but impoverished writer, who is a pacifist, goes to work for a publisher and writes anti-war editorials. ...more about Man Who Reclaimed His Head
- Not Available on DVD
28
2.1019Dublin, 1922. Gypo Nolan, strong but none too bright, has been ousted from the rebel organization and is starving. ...more about Informer
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
29
2.0898The marshal of Medicine Bend is tired and alone. Tired of killing to keep himself from being killed; alone because of an unspoken past disappointment. ...more about Lawless Street
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
31
2.0486Investigating a series of murders in Chinatown, wise-guy reporter Jason Barton is captured by the megalomaniacal Mr. ...more about Mysterious Mr. Wong
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
32
1.9711The town of Warlock is plagued by a gang of thugs, leading the inhabitants to hire Clay Blaisdell, a famous gunman, to act as marshal. ...more about Warlock
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
35
1.9451The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. ...more about Murder by Invitation
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
36
1.8707In the old West, a small frontier town is being controlled by ruthless mob boss Decker (Lyle Bettger) and his cronies. ...more about Destry
- Not Available on DVD
37
1.8538Attorney Lynn Hollister investigates the murder of his friend in the big city. Along the way, he manages to fall in love with the daughter of his chief suspect. ...more about Man Betrayed
- Not Available on DVD
38
1.8524Fishing boat captain Harry Morgan charters his boat. Due to strained finances, he is none too careful as to whom he does business with. ...more about Breaking Point
- Not Available on DVD
39
1.7474Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is killed, along with a policeman. Nick hides out in a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. He goes back to her apartment with her and forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt. ...more about He Ran All the Way
- Not Available on DVD
40
1.4871Ex-Buffalo Hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. ...more about Wichita
- Not Available on DVD
41
1.4141Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. ...more about Rainmaker
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
42
Another movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money, looking for some job. They finally find one as workers in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams. He wants to become a clown... ...more about 3 Ring Circus
- Not Available on DVD
46
The life of a young slum kid, who starts out stealing small things in order to fit in with the "crowd", winds up in reform school, and eventually spends much of his life in prison. ...more about Back Door to Heaven
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
49
Tom Brewster, handy with a rope but not a gun, rides into town and mails his lawyer's exam. When his lack of ability with a gun is exposed, the town boss Turlock offers him the job of Sheriff but he refuses. ...more about Boy from Oklahoma
- Not Available on DVD
50
Rick and Dot, two penniless New Yorkers, meet and fall in love in Central Park. Promising to meet later, they separate. ...more about Central Park
- Not Available on DVD
55
After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. ...more about First Texan
- Not Available on DVD
56
Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has the upper hand with Paul, but ultimately a rival appears in the shape of upper-crust reporter Ann Hollis. ...more about Flesh and Fury
- Not Available on DVD
60
Jesse James (Willard Parker), retired and living under an assumed name in St. Joseph, Missouri, agrees over the protests of his wife Zee (Barbara Woodell) to join Bob Ford (Jim Bannon) and Sam Wells (Richard Cutting)in a Colorado gold raid. ...more about Great Jesse James Raid
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
64
Roguish, cynical newsreel cameraman Bill Allen usually has a dame in one hand and a hip flask in the other, yet catches breaking stories and disasters of all sorts on film. ...more about Headline Shooter
- Not Available on DVD
68
A gang of small-time confidence-type crooks, led by the elderly Pop (Lafe McKee) and Mom Cobb (Rose Pulmmer), have just completed a small scam when a wallet found on a drunk gives them a big-time opportunity; it contains an appointment as a cashier in ...more about Inside the Law
- Not Available on DVD
69
Society glamour girl/aviatrix Virginia Allerton (June Lang) decides to alter her around-the-world flight by stopping off on the Pacific isle of Palo Pango where her brother, Lieutenant Allerton (Grant Richards) is stationed with a detachment of U.S. ...more about Isle of Destiny
- Not Available on DVD
72
In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love with another woman--but he can't stop the man trying to kill him because he doesn't know who he is. ...more about Love
- Not Available on DVD
73
Kay Williams, an executive with Styles, Inc., is true to her absent husband Bill despite much harassment for dates from co-workers. ...more about Lover Come Back
- Not Available on DVD
77
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. The association results in her being tried and sentenced to a long prison term. ...more about Mary Burns
- Not Available on DVD
80
At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy hang out, a wealthy Manhattan girl and a struggling Brooklyn boy meet and fall in love. ...more about Money Means Nothing
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
82
In 1867, Nebraska becomes a state, but still has no permanent peace with the Indians. Federal scout Wade Harper has a peace mission cut short when chief Thundercloud is murdered, supposedly by Harper's Indian comrade Wingfoot. ...more about Nebraskan
- Not Available on DVD
83
Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies. While Bob is looking for a farm to buy, Helen is taken in by a group of scam artists who promise to make her a star. ...more about Nut Farm
- Not Available on DVD
86
When boyfriend Vince Nichols (Dennis Morgan) won't give up his gambling, Abby (Lucille Norman) joins vaudeville partners Carol (Virginia Mayo) and June (Virginia Gibson) in a trek to Las Vegas searching for millionaires, followed by playboy Ted Lansing ...more about Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
- Not Available on DVD
90
Nancy Cartwright (Jane Nigh) is determined to collect an $1,800 feed bill owed to her father Harry Cartwright (Frank Ferguson) by a rodeo association. ...more about Rodeo
- Not Available on DVD
92
As a publicity stunt, a movie studio places an actress with a hillbilly family so she can be "discovered" and starred in the studio's next musical. ...more about Scatterbrain
- Not Available on DVD
97
A wife convinces her husband to fake his death so they can collect on the life insurance. However, he doesn't know that she has been having an affair for some time, and she has plans for the money - and they don't include him. ...more about Shed No Tears
- Not Available on DVD
99
The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwardes, a famous psychiatrist. Edwardes arrives and is immediately attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen. ...more about Spellbound
- DVD Best Pricing:
DVDEmpire
104
Husky Stone (Ray Mayer), strongest man in the Navy, and as short on brains as he is as long on muscle, has an urge to get married, as his enlistment is up. ...more about Swing It
- Not Available on DVD
105
Fourth reworking of the classic Grace Miller White novel, this time updated to the 60s, with young Scottish lassie Tess (Diane Baker) becoming embroiled in a conflict about a toxic chemical plant near her new home in Pennsylvania. ...more about Tess of the Storm Country
- Not Available on DVD
106
Nellie Rimplegar has to tell her grown children that due to her bungled handling of their finances, the family has been wiped out by the Stock Market crash. ...more about Three-Cornered Moon
- Not Available on DVD
109
Eddie sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly who brings her younger sister Pat. ...more about Two Girls on Broadway
- Not Available on DVD
110
Walter Abel regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Margot Grahame) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered. ...more about Two in the Dark
- Not Available on DVD
111
John Vickers finally tracks down one of the three men who killed his true love. Before he dies, the miscreant admits that his accomplices joined the cavalry. ...more about Warpath
- Not Available on DVD
113
The story begins in 1923 where after an accident, a newspaper reporter (Ford) needs to raise $5,000 to pay for an operation, otherwise his young sister will be crippled for life. ...more about X Marks the Spot
- Not Available on DVD
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