Francis McDonald
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Francis McDonald (August 22, 1891 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor whose career spanned 52 years. McDonald's started acting professionally in stock theater with the Forepaugh Stock Company in Cincinnati. Following eight months with it, he worked one season with a stock company in Seattle, after which he performed for three seasons with a troupe in San Diego and Honolulu. He concluded his tenure in stock theater as juvenile leading man with the American Stock Company in Spokane, Washington. By 1913 McDonald began to perform in the rapidly expanding film industry, initially working for Marion Leonard's Monopole Company in Hollywood. He was cast in over 280 films between 1913 and 1965, including The Temptress in 1926 with Greta Garbo. After he was designated "Hollywood's Prettiest Man," McDonald sought a tougher image by shaving his mustache and seeking roles of villains. McDonald was one of Cecil B. DeMille's favorite character actors.[citation needed] DeMille gave him credited supporting roles in six of his films: The Plainsman (1936), The Buccaneer (1938), Union Pacific (1939), North West Mounted Police (1940), Samson and Delilah (1949), and The Ten Commandments (1956).
Known for
Credits
The Ten Commandments (1956)
as Simon
Samson and Delilah (1949)
as Story Teller
The Great Race (1965)
as Russian (uncredited)
Notorious (1946)
as Man (uncredited)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
as Gambler (uncredited)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
Actor
The Sea Hawk (1940)
as Kroner
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
as Extra (uncredited)
The Paleface (1948)
as Lance (as Francis J. McDonald)
Morocco (1930)
as Sergeant Tatoche
Blood and Sand (1941)
as Manolo's Friend (uncredited)
Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
as Old Man at Robbo's Club
Beau Geste (1939)
as Arab Scout (uncredited)
The Sea Wolf (1941)
as Svenson
Rancho Notorious (1952)
as Harbin
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
as Tall - White-haired Cafe Lounger (uncredited)
Ten Wanted Men (1955)
Actor
Union Pacific (1939)
as Gen. Dodge
One Night in the Tropics (1940)
as Escobar's Aide (uncredited)
Green Hell (1940)
as Gracco
The Plainsman (1936)
as A River Gambler
Son of Ali Baba (1952)
as Palace Official (uncredited)
Strange Cargo (1940)
as Moussenq - Convict (uncredited)
Canyon Passage (1946)
as Cobb (uncredited)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
as John Wilkes Booth
The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957)
as Col. Chivington's Aide (uncredited)
Magnificent Doll (1946)
as Jenks (uncredited)
The Buccaneer (1938)
as Camden Blount
Trilby (1923)
as Geko
Fort Massacre (1958)
as Piute Man
The Perils of Pauline (1947)
as Western Saloon Set Heavy
Red Mountain (1951)
as Marshal Roberts
The Nevadan (1950)
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Woman-Wise (1937)
as Charley (uncredited)
If I Were King (1938)
as Casin Cholet
Belle of the Yukon (1944)
as Miner Investing on River-Freeze Date (uncredited)
The Raiders (1952)
as Mr. John Cummings
Sadie McKee (1934)
as Joe, Alderson’s Chauffeur (uncredited)
Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)
as Pedro
Criminal Lawyer (1937)
as Jack 'Fingy' Doremus (uncredited)
The Kansan (1943)
as Gil Hatton
The Soldier and the Lady (1937)
as Chieftain (Uncredited)
The Last Train from Madrid (1937)
as Mora (uncredited)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
as Louis Riel
The Big Fisherman (1959)
as Scribe Spokesman
The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
as Karkuff
Operator 13 (1934)
as Denton (uncredited)
Son of God’s Country (1948)
as Tom Ford
Valley of the Sun (1942)
as Governor's Interpreter (uncredited)
Fort Osage (1952)
as Osage Chief
Night Flight (1933)
as Radioman (uncredited)
Panhandle (1948)
as Crump
Mississippi (1935)
as Gambler (uncredited)
The Viking (1928)
as Viking Friend of Leif (uncredited)
Mummy's Boys (1936)
as Rasheed Bey
White Fang (1936)
as Suds
Girl in Danger (1934)
as Tony - Russo Henchman (uncredited)
The Answer (1918)
as Guido Garcia
Battling Butler (1926)
as Alfred 'Battling' Butler
Pawnee (1957)
as Uncle Tip Alden (as Francis J. McDonald)
The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)
as Frank
Bobbed Hair (1925)
as Pooch
Till We Meet Again (1944)
as Cart Driver (uncredited)
Zorro's Black Whip (1944)
as Dan Hammond
Straightaway (1933)
as Rogan
Big Brown Eyes (1936)
as Malley (Uncredited)
Idiot's Delight (1939)
as Flight Captain
Carmen (1913)
as Don Jose
Pretty Smooth (1919)
as Jimmy Hartigan
Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
as Kidnapper
Captain Caution (1940)
as French Seaman in Pub
Outlaws of Red River (1927)
as Ben Tanner
West Point of the Air (1935)
as Civilian Pilot
Mystery of the Riverboat (1944)
as Batiste
Walk the Proud Land (1956)
as The Shaman (uncredited)
Go Straight! (1925)
as The Dove
The Light That Failed (1939)
as George
Abandoned (1949)
as Winey - Pool Player (uncredited)
Last Stagecoach West (1957)
as Old Man Colter
Bar 20 (1943)
as Quirt Rankin
Brothers in the Saddle (1949)
as Hoyt Parker
Diamond Jim (1935)
as Gambler
The Bandits of Corsica (1953)
as Grisha
Forgotten Faces (1928)
Actor
The Gay Bride (1934)
as Detroit gangster (uncredited)
A Girl in Every Port (1928)
as Circus Manager
Woman in Hiding (1950)
as North Carolina Cannoneer (uncredited)
The Devil's in Love (1933)
as Officer Reading Verdict
Duel at Apache Wells (1957)
as Joe Dunn
Puppets (1926)
as Bruno
In Spite of Danger (1935)
as Race Driver
The Catman of Paris (1946)
as Devereaux
The Carson City Kid (1940)
as Laramie
The Naked Dawn (1955)
as Railroad guard
Strange Confession (1945)
as Hernandez
California Passage (1950)
as County Recorder Joe Kane
The Devil at His Elbow (1916)
as Andrew Sealey (as Frank McDonald)
The Devil Is Driving (1932)
as Ticker (uncredited)
Tangier (1946)
as Sanchez
The Wreck (1927)
Actor
Monte Cristo (1922)
as Benedetto
Wyoming (1940)
as Dawson - Henchman
The Line-Up (1934)
as Trigger - Henchman
Two Gun Marshal (1953)
as Blake Cody
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940)
as Santos the Portuguese
Honor of the Mounted (1932)
as Jean La Train
Bad Lands (1939)
as Manuel Lopez
Thunder Over Arizona (1956)
as Pliny Warren
Voice in the Night (1934)
as Henchman Jackson
The Lawyer's Secret (1931)
as The Weasel
The Devil's Pipeline (1940)
as Gaddi Sang
The Temptress (1926)
as Timoteo
St. Elmo (1914)
as Murray Hammond
Red Morning (1934)
as Sakki
Kickin' the Crown Around (1933)
as Disputin
Buckskin Frontier (1943)
as Duval
Captain Fly-by-Night (1922)
as Second Stranger
The Golden Snare (1921)
as Pierre Thoreau
Men of the Timberland (1941)
as Jean Collet
The Ghost Flower (1918)
Actor
Night Train to Memphis (1946)
as Doctor
Rim of the Canyon (1949)
as Charlie Lewis
Strange Gamble (1948)
as Henchman Longhorn
Texas Masquerade (1944)
as Sam Nolan
Devil's Playground (1937)
as Romano
Brothers (1930)
as Tony
The Girl from Alaska (1942)
as Pelly
South of the Rio Grande (1945)
as Torres
The Bar-C Mystery (1926)
Actor
Saddle Pals (1947)
as Sheriff
Gene Autry and the Mounties (1951)
as Batiste
Rose of the Yukon (1949)
as Alaskan
Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1934)
as Ray Ridpath - Henchman [Chs. 1-6]
Bad Men of the Border (1945)
as Captain Jose Garcia
The Gates of Doom (1917)
as Jang Sattib
Tony America (1918)
as Tony America
Toton (1919)
as Pierre
Daughter of the Jungle (1949)
as Montu
My Pal Trigger (1946)
as Storekeeper
River Gang (1945)
as Indignant Man
A Successful Failure (1934)
as Radical Speaker
Powder River Rustlers (1949)
as Shears Williams
Mary of the Movies (1923)
as James Seiler
Satan in Sables (1925)
as Emile
East of Broadway (1924)
as Professor Mario
Texas Buddies (1932)
as Blake
Love's Prisoner (1919)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Wild West Days (1937)
as Assayer Purvis, member of the Secret 7
The Courageous Coward (1919)
as Tom Kirby (as Francis J. McDonald)
So This Is Marriage? (1924)
as Smith
Dangerous Venture (1947)
as Kane
The She-Devil (1916)
as Albert Alwain
The Voice on the Wire (1917)
as 'Red' Warren
His Debt (1919)
as Blair Whitcomb
Bordertown Trail (1944)
as Matthews
Dig That Uranium (1955)
as The Indian Chief
Roll on Texas Moon (1946)
as Steve Anders
The Light Within (1918)
as Dr. Green
Screen Tests for Faust (1923)
Actor
The Kid from Kansas (1941)
as Cesar
Look Your Best (1923)
as Alberto Cabotto
Dangerous Paradise (1930)
as Ricardo
Perils of the Secret Service (1917)
as (Episode #3)
The Trumpet Blows (1934)
as Vega
Mystery Man (1944)
as Bert Rogan
Puppets of Fate (1921)
as Gabriel Palombra
The Bold Frontiersman (1948)
as Adam Post
The Confession (1920)
as Tom Bartlett
The Northern Code (1925)
as Raoul La Fane
Terror Trail (1933)
as Tad McPherson
Nomads of the North (1920)
as Buck McDougall
The Palace of Pleasure (1926)
as Captain Fernandez
The Hunted Woman (1925)
as Joe De Bar
Broadway Bad (1933)
as Charley Davis
Safety in Numbers (1930)
as Phil Kemptom
Great Stagecoach Robbery (1945)
as Con Hollister
Burning Up (1930)
as 'Bullet' McGhan
The Valley of Hell (1928)
as Creighton Steele
Range War (1939)
as Morgan
The Call of the North (1921)
as Achille Picard
The Kentucky Colonel (1920)
as Philip Burwood
The Marriage Bargain (1935)
as Ben Ainsley
The Dead Don't Dream (1948)
as Bart Lansing
The Notorious Lady (1927)
as Manuela Silvera
Lumberjack (1944)
as Clyde Fenwick
70,000 Witnesses (1932)
as Dominic Silvera (uncredited)
Gun Law (1938)
as Henchman Nevada
My Lady of Whims (1925)
as Rolf
The Buster (1923)
as Swing
Real Folks (1918)
as Jimmie Dugan
Apache Chief (1949)
as Mohaska
Black Orchids (1917)
as George Renoir / Ivan De Maupin
In Line of Duty (1931)
as Jacques Dupres
The Final Close-Up (1919)
as Jimmie Norton
Cheyenne Wildcat (1944)
as Jim Douglas
Hidden Valley (1932)
as Frank Gavin
The Runaway Bride (1930)
as Barney Black
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles (1933)
as Henchman (as Frances McDonald)
Son of a Badman (1949)
as Joe Christ
Trailing the Killer (1932)
as Pierre LaPlant (as Francis MacDonald)
The Gray Ghost (1917)
as Williams
Prudence on Broadway (1919)
as Grayson Mills
Girl Overboard (1929)
as Francisco
The Devil's Playground (1946)
as Roberts
The Carnation Kid (1929)
as The Carnation Kid
Trooper O'Neill (1922)
as Pierre
Mr. Dolan of New York (1917)
as 'Spider' Flynn (as Francis MacDonald)
Corpus Christi Bandits (1945)
as Dad Christie
Going Up (1923)
as Jules Gaillard
The Arizona Express (1924)
as Victor Johnson
Parole Racket (1937)
as Nat Beldon
The Woman Conquers (1922)
as Lawatha, Indian Guide
The Invisible Informer (1946)
as Jules Ravelle
The Gang Buster (1931)
as Pete Caltek
The Legion of the Condemned (1928)
as Gonzolo Vasquez
The Drag Net (1928)
as Sniper Dawson
The Love Doctor (1917)
as Hildreth
The Desert's Toll (1926)
as Frank Darwin
The Express Messenger (1915)
as Dave Snowden
The Yankee Señor (1926)
as Juan Gutiérrez
The Gun Woman (1918)
as The Gent
Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927)
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