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