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