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{{short description|British actor}}
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{{Infobox person
| image =
| birth_name = {{nowrap|Thomas Seymour Woolford}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date |1898|04|21|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|01|07|1898|04|21|df=y}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, US
| occupation = {{plainlist|
* Actor
* Writer
* Film director
}}
}}

'''Walter Forde''' (born '''Thomas Seymour Woolford''', 21 April 1898 – 7 January 1984)<ref name="imdb.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285962/|title=Walter Forde|work=IMDb}}</ref> was a British [[actor]], [[screenwriter]] and [[Film director|director]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9ee8c970|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722043349/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9ee8c970|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-22|title=Walter Forde|work=BFI}}</ref> Born in Lambeth, south London in 1898, he directed over fifty films between 1919 from the [[silent era]] through to 1949 in the [[sound film|sound era]].<ref name="imdb.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/451589/|title=BFI Screenonline: Forde, Walter (1898-1984) Biography|work=screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> He died in Los Angeles, California in 1984.

Forde was the son of the [[music hall]] comedian Tom Seymour. During the 1920s, he was a silent film comedian, acting in a series of shorts before shifting into directing feature films. Emerging as an established film director in the 1930s, he directed films for [[Gainsborough Pictures]] and [[Ealing Studios]].

==Filmography==
===Actor===
*''Walter Finds a Father'', extant
*''Walter Wants Work'', extant in the Huntley Archives
*''Walter's Day Out''
===Actor===
*''Walter The Sleuth 1926'',

===Director===
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* ''[[What Next?]]'' (1928)
* ''[[Wait and See (1928 film)|Wait and See]]'' (1929)
* ''[[The Silent House (1929 film)|The Silent House]]'' (1929)
* ''[[Would You Believe It?]]'' (1929)
* ''[[Red Pearls]]'' (1930)
* ''[[Bed and Breakfast (1930 film)|Bed and Breakfast]]'' (1930)
* ''[[Lord Richard in the Pantry]]'' (1930)
* ''[[The Last Hour (1930 film)|The Last Hour]]'' (1930)
* ''[[You'd Be Surprised!]]'' (1930)
* ''[[Third Time Lucky (1931 film)|Third Time Lucky]]'' (1931)
* ''[[The Ringer (1931 film)|The Ringer]]'' (1931)
* ''[[Splinters in the Navy]]'' (1931)
* ''[[The Ghost Train (1931 film)|The Ghost Train]]'' (1931)
* ''[[Condemned to Death]]'' (1932)
* ''[[Lord Babs]]'' (1932)
* ''[[Jack's the Boy]]'' (1932)
* ''[[Rome Express]]'' (1932)
* ''[[Orders Is Orders]]'' (1933)
* ''[[Jack Ahoy]]'' (1934)
* ''[[Chu Chin Chow (1934 film)|Chu Chin Chow]]'' (1934)
* ''[[Bulldog Jack]]'' (1935)
* ''[[Forever England (film)|Forever England]]'' (1935)
* ''[[King of the Damned]]'' (1935)
* ''[[Land Without Music]]'' (1936)
* ''[[Kicking the Moon Around]]'' (1938)
* ''[[The Gaunt Stranger]]'' (1938)
* ''[[Let's Be Famous]]'' (1939)
* ''[[The Four Just Men (1939 film)|The Four Just Men]]'' (1939)
* ''[[Cheer Boys Cheer]]'' (1939)
* ''[[Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday]]'' (1939)
* ''[[Saloon Bar]]'' (1940)
* ''[[Sailors Three]]'' (1940)
* ''[[Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt]]'' (1940)
* ''[[Atlantic Ferry]]'' (1941)
* ''[[The Ghost Train (1941 film)|The Ghost Train]]'' (1941)
* ''[[Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It]]'' (1941)
* ''[[Go to Blazes (1942 film)|Go to Blazes]]'' (1942, short)
* ''[[The Peterville Diamond]]'' (1942)
* ''[[Flying Fortress (film)|Flying Fortress]]'' (1942)
* ''[[It's That Man Again (film)|It's That Man Again]]'' (1943)
* ''[[Time Flies (1944 film)|Time Flies]]'' (1944)
* ''[[One Exciting Night (1944 film)|One Exciting Night]]'' (1944)
* ''[[Master of Bankdam]]'' (1947)
* ''[[Cardboard Cavalier]]'' (1949)
{{div col end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* Hunter, I.Q. & Porter, Laraine. ''British Comedy Cinema''. Routledge, 2012.

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=0285962|name=Walter Forde}}
*[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/451589/ ''Walter Forde'' at BFI Screenonline]

{{Walter Forde}}

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[[Category:1984 deaths]]
[[Category:English film directors]]
[[Category:English male silent film actors]]
[[Category:Male actors from Bradford]]
[[Category:English male film actors]]
[[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
[[Category:Film people from Yorkshire]]

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