Wallace MacDonald
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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)
Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
as Policeman (uncredited)
The Last Flight (1931)
as Officer at Hospital
The Lady (1925)
as Leonard St. Aubyns
Darkened Rooms (1929)
as Bert Nelson
Roaring Rails (1924)
as Malcolm Gregory
Millie (1931)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Madam Satan (1930)
as First Mate
Breaking Through (1921)
as Willard Ward
Hello Trouble (1932)
as LaTange
Night Flight (1933)
as Mechanic (uncredited)
Cupid Forecloses (1919)
as Bruce Cartwright
Moon Madness (1920)
as Jan
The Range Feud (1931)
as Hank
The Rounders (1914)
as Diner
The Knockout (1914)
as Spectator / Party Guest (uncredited)
Their Big Moment (1934)
as Theater Manager (uncredited)
Caught in a Cabaret (1914)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Blockade (1928)
as Vincent
The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914)
as Drinker
Caught Bluffing (1922)
as Wallace Towers
Mabel's Married Life (1914)
as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Dough and Dynamite (1914)
as Customer
High Speed (1932)
as Tom Corliss
Trumpet Island (1920)
as Richard Bedell
Spotlight Sadie (1919)
as Dick Carrington
Mabel's Blunder (1914)
as Harry's Money-Borrowing Friend
Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)
as SS Bellocona's Purser (uncredited)
The Drums of Jeopardy (1931)
as Prince Gregor Petroff
I Loved a Woman (1933)
as Hayden's First Secretary (uncredited)
Madame Sphinx (1918)
as Andre Du Bois
The Sea Hawk (1924)
as Peter Godolphin
Tex Takes a Holiday (1932)
as Tex
The Pagan Lady (1931)
as Francisco
Two-Fisted Law (1932)
as Artie
Leave It to Susan (1919)
as Jimmy Dawson
The World Changes (1933)
as Sir Phillip's Best Man (uncredited)
The Heart Bandit (1924)
as 'Spike' Malone
Drums of the Desert (1927)
as Will Newton
The Primrose Path (1925)
as Bruce Armstrong
Sweetie (1929)
as Bill Barrington
Texas Cyclone (1932)
as Nick Lawler
The Bar-C Mystery (1926)
as Nevada
Those Love Pangs (1914)
as Movie Patron (uncredited)
The Shoes That Danced (1918)
as Harmony Lad
The Vanishing Frontier (1933)
as Captain Roger Kearney
Dark Skies (1929)
as Captain Pedro Real
Hell's Four Hundred (1926)
as Marshall Langham
The Rogue Song (1930)
as Hassan
New Lives for Old (1925)
as Hugh Warren
Fifty Fathoms Deep (1931)
as Mate
Zampa (1930)
as The Villain
King of the Wild Horses (1933)
as Gorman
The Follies Girl (1919)
as Ned
Lightnin' (1925)
as John Marvin
Marked Cards (1918)
as Ted Breslin
Thy Name Is Woman (1924)
as Capt. Rodrigo de Castelar
Nanette of the Wilds (1916)
as Harry Jennings
Mabel's Busy Day (1914)
as Spectator (uncredited)
The Day of Faith (1923)
as John Anstell
The Arm of the Law (1932)
as Newspaper Reporter
Two Can Play (1926)
as Robert MacForth
Fighting with Buffalo Bill (1926)
as Ned Wheeler
Are All Men Alike? (1920)
as Gerry Rhinelander West
Youth Must Have Love (1922)
as Earl Stannard
Hit the Deck (1929)
as Lieutenant Allen
Wandering Fires (1925)
as Norman Yuell
Learning to Love (1925)
as Professor Bonnard
Their Last Haul (1915)
as Crook
The Spoilers (1923)
as Broncho Kid
The Fighting Shepherdess (1920)
as Hughie
Rouge and Riches (1920)
as Tom Rushworth
Love and Bullets (1914)
as The Trouble Mender's Secretary
Curlytop (1924)
as Bill Branigan
Zip, the Dodger (1914)
as Minta's Sweetheart
A Fool There Was (1922)
as Avery Parmelee
Fighting Thru (1930)
as George 'Tennessee' Malden
Brothers Divided (1919)
as Max King
The Princess of Park Row (1917)
as Tom Kearney
Tumbling River (1927)
as Keechie
Daring Danger (1932)
as Jughandle (as Wallace McDonald)
Maytime (1923)
as Claude Van Zandt
A Girl Named Mary (1919)
as Henry Martin
Purity (1916)
as Youth
Cinderella's Twin (1920)
as Prentice Blue
Between Fighting Men (1932)
as Wally Thompson
Branded (1931)
as Stage Robber
Casey of the Coast Guard (1926)
as Coast Guardsman
Fancy Baggage (1929)
as Ernest Hardin
Tropical Nights (1928)
as Stavnow
Faithful Wives (1926)
as Tom Burke
Love and Glory (1924)
as Anatole Picard
Your Wife and Mine (1927)
as Robert Warren
The Star Boarder (1914)
as Boarder (uncredited)
The Riding Tornado (1932)
as Dick Stark - Olcott's Foreman
Youth's Endearing Charm (1916)
as Harry Disbrow
The Checkered Flag (1926)
as Jack Reese
The Sage Hen (1921)
as Her Son, as a Man
The Charmer (1925)
as Ralph Bayne
A Street of Memory (1937)
as Narrator (voice)
Red Signals (1927)
as Lee Bryson
The Little Boss (1919)
as Clayton Hargis
A Poor Relation (1921)
as Johnny Smith
Fatty Again (1914)
as The Boarder - Father's Choice
The Understudy (1922)
as Tom Manning