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