Wallace MacDonald
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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
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
as Stage Manager (uncredited)
The Mayor of Hell (1933)
as Man in Johnson's Office (uncredited)
Caught in a Cabaret (1914)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
as Policeman (uncredited)
Spotlight Sadie (1919)
as Dick Carrington
Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)
as SS Bellocona's Purser (uncredited)
The Arm of the Law (1932)
as Newspaper Reporter
The Lady (1925)
as Leonard St. Aubyns
Hello Trouble (1932)
as LaTange
Are All Men Alike? (1920)
as Gerry Rhinelander West
Mabel's Married Life (1914)
as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Breaking Through (1921)
as Willard Ward
Drums of the Desert (1927)
as Will Newton
Madam Satan (1930)
as First Mate
Moon Madness (1920)
as Jan
The Bar-C Mystery (1926)
as Nevada
Blockade (1928)
as Vincent
I Loved a Woman (1933)
as Hayden's First Secretary (uncredited)
Fighting with Buffalo Bill (1926)
as Ned Wheeler
Millie (1931)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Mabel's Busy Day (1914)
as Spectator (uncredited)
Wandering Fires (1925)
as Norman Yuell
Brothers Divided (1919)
as Max King
Tex Takes a Holiday (1932)
as Tex
Madame Sphinx (1918)
as Andre Du Bois
The Knockout (1914)
as Spectator / Party Guest (uncredited)
Thy Name Is Woman (1924)
as Capt. Rodrigo de Castelar
Cupid Forecloses (1919)
as Bruce Cartwright
The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914)
as Drinker
Caught Bluffing (1922)
as Wallace Towers
The Shoes That Danced (1918)
as Harmony Lad
Leave It to Susan (1919)
as Jimmy Dawson
Hell's Four Hundred (1926)
as Marshall Langham
The Star Boarder (1914)
as Boarder (uncredited)
Those Love Pangs (1914)
as Movie Patron (uncredited)
Trumpet Island (1920)
as Richard Bedell
Night Flight (1933)
as Mechanic (uncredited)
The Sea Hawk (1924)
as Peter Godolphin
Casey of the Coast Guard (1926)
as Coast Guardsman
Roaring Rails (1924)
as Malcolm Gregory
The Drums of Jeopardy (1931)
as Prince Gregor Petroff
The World Changes (1933)
as Sir Phillip's Best Man (uncredited)
Dark Skies (1929)
as Captain Pedro Real
Zampa (1930)
as The Villain
A Fool There Was (1922)
as Avery Parmelee
Dough and Dynamite (1914)
as Customer
The Pagan Lady (1931)
as Francisco
Two-Fisted Law (1932)
as Artie
The Range Feud (1931)
as Hank
Youth Must Have Love (1922)
as Earl Stannard
Tropical Nights (1928)
as Stavnow
The Rounders (1914)
as Diner
New Lives for Old (1925)
as Hugh Warren
The Day of Faith (1923)
as John Anstell
The Princess of Park Row (1917)
as Tom Kearney
A Girl Named Mary (1919)
as Henry Martin
The Heart Bandit (1924)
as 'Spike' Malone
Texas Cyclone (1932)
as Nick Lawler
Cinderella's Twin (1920)
as Prentice Blue
Their Big Moment (1934)
as Theater Manager (uncredited)
King of the Wild Horses (1933)
as Gorman
Their Last Haul (1915)
as Crook
Your Wife and Mine (1927)
as Robert Warren
The Rogue Song (1930)
as Hassan
Nanette of the Wilds (1916)
as Harry Jennings
Fifty Fathoms Deep (1931)
as Mate
Darkened Rooms (1929)
as Bert Nelson
The Checkered Flag (1926)
as Jack Reese
Fancy Baggage (1929)
as Ernest Hardin
The Spoilers (1923)
as Broncho Kid
The Last Flight (1931)
as Officer at Hospital
The Riding Tornado (1932)
as Dick Stark - Olcott's Foreman
The Understudy (1922)
as Tom Manning
High Speed (1932)
as Tom Corliss
Mabel's Blunder (1914)
as Harry's Money-Borrowing Friend
The Vanishing Frontier (1933)
as Captain Roger Kearney
Lightnin' (1925)
as John Marvin
The Follies Girl (1919)
as Ned
Youth's Endearing Charm (1916)
as Harry Disbrow
Two Can Play (1926)
as Robert MacForth
Maytime (1923)
as Claude Van Zandt
Love and Bullets (1914)
as The Trouble Mender's Secretary
Zip, the Dodger (1914)
as Minta's Sweetheart
Sweetie (1929)
as Bill Barrington
Hit the Deck (1929)
as Lieutenant Allen
The Primrose Path (1925)
as Bruce Armstrong
Rouge and Riches (1920)
as Tom Rushworth
Love and Glory (1924)
as Anatole Picard
The Charmer (1925)
as Ralph Bayne
Tumbling River (1927)
as Keechie
The Fighting Shepherdess (1920)
as Hughie
Between Fighting Men (1932)
as Wally Thompson
The Little Boss (1919)
as Clayton Hargis
Fighting Thru (1930)
as George 'Tennessee' Malden
Red Signals (1927)
as Lee Bryson
A Poor Relation (1921)
as Johnny Smith
Purity (1916)
as Youth
Marked Cards (1918)
as Ted Breslin
Daring Danger (1932)
as Jughandle (as Wallace McDonald)
Learning to Love (1925)
as Professor Bonnard
Faithful Wives (1926)
as Tom Burke
A Street of Memory (1937)
as Narrator (voice)
Fatty Again (1914)
as The Boarder - Father's Choice
Curlytop (1924)
as Bill Branigan
The Sage Hen (1921)
as Her Son, as a Man
Branded (1931)
as Stage Robber