Wallace MacDonald
From Wikipedia Wallace Archibald MacDonald (5 May 1891, Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada - 30 October 1978, Santa Barbara, California) was a Canadian silent film actor, also a film producer. MacDonald started as a messenger boy with the Dominion Steel Company in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He later worked up to teller with the Royal Bank in Sydney before the bank transferred him to Vancouver, British Columbia. From there, he moved to California, where he acted on the stage before making inroads into Hollywood. MacDonald initially began as an actor in films in 1914 and appeared in almost 120 motion pictures between then and 1932. He had notable roles in such films as Youth's Endearing Charm in 1916 working with Mary Miles Minter and Harry von Meter. Late in World War I he returned briefly to Nova Scotia to enlist in the 10th Canadian Siege Battery where he assisted in recruiting for the Canadian Army. With the advent of sound, MacDonald's acting career diminished, and most of his roles between 1927 and 1932 went uncredited. He retired from acting in 1932 to concentrate on script writing. However, by 1937 he had recognized the potential of film production. It is in his role of producer that MacDonald is now probably best remembered. He produced well over 100 films between 1937 and 1959. He died in 1978. Sometimes he is mistaken as a brother of actor Francis McDonald. Though both resembled one another and were born in 1891, they were born three months apart and spelled their surnames differently.
Known For
Credits
- 1937 · A Street of Memory as Narrator (voice)
- 1934 · Their Big Moment as Theater Manager (uncredited)
- 1933 · King of the Wild Horses as Gorman
- 1933 · Night Flight as Mechanic (uncredited)
- 1933 · I Loved a Woman as Hayden's First Secretary (uncredited)
- 1933 · Mary Stevens, M.D. as SS Bellocona's Purser (uncredited)
- 1933 · The Mayor of Hell as Man in Johnson's Office (uncredited)
- 1933 · The Vanishing Frontier as Captain Roger Kearney
- 1932 · Between Fighting Men as Wally Thompson
- 1932 · Hello Trouble as LaTange
- 1932 · Daring Danger as Jughandle (as Wallace McDonald)
- 1932 · Two-Fisted Law as Artie
- 1932 · The Riding Tornado as Dick Stark - Olcott's Foreman
- 1932 · The Arm of the Law as Newspaper Reporter
- 1932 · High Speed as Tom Corliss
- 1932 · Texas Cyclone as Nick Lawler
- 1931 · The Range Feud as Hank
- 1931 · The Pagan Lady as Francisco
- 1931 · Branded as Stage Robber
- 1931 · The Last Flight as Officer at Hospital
- 1931 · Fifty Fathoms Deep as Mate
- 1931 · The Drums of Jeopardy as Prince Gregor Petroff
- 1931 · Millie as Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1930 · Fighting Thru as George 'Tennessee' Malden
- 1930 · Madam Satan as First Mate
- 1930 · Zampa as The Villain
- 1930 · The Rogue Song as Hassan
- 1929 · Hit the Deck as Lieutenant Allen
- 1929 · Darkened Rooms as Bert Nelson
- 1929 · Sweetie as Bill Barrington
- 1929 · Fancy Baggage as Ernest Hardin
- 1928 · Blockade as Vincent
- 1928 · Tropical Nights as Stavnow
- 1927 · Tumbling River as Keechie
- 1927 · Drums of the Desert as Will Newton
- 1927 · Red Signals as Lee Bryson
- 1926 · Hell's Four Hundred as Marshall Langham
- 1926 · Two Can Play as Robert MacForth
- 1926 · The Checkered Flag as Jack Reese
- 1925 · Wandering Fires as Norman Yuell
- 1925 · The Primrose Path as Bruce Armstrong
- 1925 · Lightnin' as John Marvin
- 1925 · The Charmer as Ralph Bayne
- 1925 · New Lives for Old as Hugh Warren
- 1925 · The Lady as Leonard St. Aubyns
- 1925 · Learning to Love as Professor Bonnard
- 1924 · Curlytop as Bill Branigan
- 1924 · Love and Glory as Anatole Picard
- 1924 · Roaring Rails as Malcolm Gregory
- 1924 · The Sea Hawk as Peter Godolphin
- 1924 · Thy Name Is Woman as Capt. Rodrigo de Castelar
- 1923 · Maytime as Claude Van Zandt
- 1923 · The Day of Faith as John Anstell
- 1923 · The Spoilers as Broncho Kid
- 1922 · A Fool There Was as Avery Parmelee
- 1921 · A Poor Relation as Johnny Smith
- 1921 · The Sage Hen as
- 1920 · Are All Men Alike? as Gerry Rhinelander West
- 1920 · Trumpet Island as Richard Bedell
- 1920 · The Fighting Shepherdess as Hughie
- 1920 · Rouge and Riches as Tom Rushworth
- 1919 · Cupid Forecloses as Bruce Cartwright
- 1919 · The Little Boss as Clayton Hargis
- 1919 · Leave It to Susan as Jimmy Dawson
- 1919 · The Follies Girl as Ned
- 1918 · Marked Cards as Ted Breslin
- 1917 · The Princess of Park Row as Tom Kearney
- 1916 · Youth's Endearing Charm as Harry Disbrow
- 1915 · Their Last Haul as
- 1914 · Tillie's Punctured Romance as Policeman (uncredited)
- 1914 · Dough and Dynamite as Customer
- 1914 · Zip, the Dodger as Minta's Sweetheart
- 1914 · Those Love Pangs as Movie Patron (uncredited)
- 1914 · Fatty Again as The Boarder - Father's Choice
- 1914 · Mabel's Blunder as Harry's Money-Borrowing Friend
- 1914 · The Rounders as Diner
- 1914 · The Face on the Barroom Floor as Drinker
- 1914 · Love and Bullets as The Trouble Mender's Secretary
- 1914 · Mabel's Married Life as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
- 1914 · Mabel's Busy Day as Spectator (uncredited)
- 1914 · The Knockout as Spectator / Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1914 · Caught in a Cabaret as Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1914 · The Star Boarder as Boarder (uncredited)