Wallace MacDonald
Acting · Production · Writing · Directing
Born May 4, 1891, Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada
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.
Filmography
- 1959Gunmen from Laredo — Director, Producer
- 1958Return to Warbow — Producer
- 1957No Time to Be Young — Producer
- 1957The Hard Man — Executive Producer
- 1957The Phantom Stagecoach — Producer
- 1956Fury at Gunsight Pass — Producer
- 1956The White Squaw — Producer
- 1955Apache Ambush — Producer
- 1955Cell 2455 Death Row — Producer
- 1954Massacre Canyon — Producer
- 1954Wyoming Renegades — Producer
- 1953Ambush at Tomahawk Gap — Producer
- 1953Man in the Dark — Producer
- 1953Target Hong Kong — Producer
- 1952Harem Girl — Producer
- 1951Corky of Gasoline Alley — Producer
- 1951The Big Gusher — Producer
- 1950Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard — Producer
- 1950Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang — Producer
- 1950The Tougher They Come — Producer
- 1949Air Hostess — Producer
- 1949Rusty Saves a Life — Producer
- 1949Rusty's Birthday — Producer
- 1948My Dog Rusty — Producer
- 1948Port Said — Producer
- 1948Rusty Leads the Way — Producer
- 1948The Wreck of the Hesperus — Producer
- 1947The Son of Rusty — Producer
- 1947When a Girl's Beautiful — Producer
- 1946Personality Kid — Producer
- 1946The Unknown — Producer
- 1945A Guy, a Gal and a Pal — Producer
- 1945Escape in the Fog — Producer
- 1945Eve Knew Her Apples — Producer
- 1945I Love a Mystery — Producer
- 1945My Name Is Julia Ross — Producer
- 1944Cry of the Werewolf — Producer
- 1944Sailor's Holiday — Producer
- 1944She's a Soldier Too — Producer
- 1944The Missing Juror — Producer
- 1943Passport to Suez — Producer
- 1943Redhead from Manhattan — Producer
- 1943The Chance of a Lifetime — Producer
- 1942Alias Boston Blackie — Producer
- 1942Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood — Producer
- 1942Counter-Espionage — Producer
- 1942Hello, Annapolis — Producer
- 1942Lucky Legs — Producer
- 1942Parachute Nurse — Producer
- 1942Submarine Raider — Producer
- 1942The Man Who Returned to Life — Associate Producer
- 1942Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! — Producer
- 1941Harmon of Michigan — Producer
- 1941Honolulu Lu — Producer
- 1941The Devil Commands — Producer
- 1941The Face Behind the Mask — Producer
- 1941Two Latins from Manhattan — Producer
- 1940Before I Hang — Producer
- 1940Girls of the Road — Producer
- 1940Glamour for Sale — Producer
- 1940Men Without Souls — Producer
- 1940Military Academy — Executive Producer
- 1940The Man with Nine Lives — Producer
- 1939Behind Prison Gates — Producer
- 1939The Man They Could Not Hang — Producer
- 1938Highway Patrol — Producer
- 1937A Street of Memory — Narrator (voice)
- 1937Murder in Greenwich Village — Associate Producer
- 1937The Shadow — Producer
- 1937Venus Makes Trouble — Producer
- 1936Doughnuts and Society — Story, Screenplay
- 1935Hitch Hike Lady — Original Story
- 1935The Fighting Marines — Story
- 1935The Phantom Empire — Story
- 1934In Old Santa Fe — Story
- 1934Their Big Moment — Theater Manager (uncredited)
- 1933Gold Diggers of 1933 — Stage Manager (uncredited)
- 1933I Loved a Woman — Hayden's First Secretary (uncredited)
- 1933King of the Wild Horses — Gorman
- 1933Mary Stevens, M.D. — SS Bellocona's Purser (uncredited)
- 1933Night Flight — Mechanic (uncredited)
- 1933The Mayor of Hell — Man in Johnson's Office (uncredited)
- 1933The Vanishing Frontier — Captain Roger Kearney
- 1933The World Changes — Sir Phillip's Best Man (uncredited)
- 1932Between Fighting Men — Wally Thompson
- 1932Cornered — Writer
- 1932Daring Danger — Jughandle (as Wallace McDonald)
- 1932Hello Trouble — LaTange
- 1932High Speed — Tom Corliss
- 1932Tex Takes a Holiday — Tex
- 1932Texas Cyclone — Nick Lawler
- 1932The Arm of the Law — Newspaper Reporter
- 1932The Riding Tornado — Dick Stark - Olcott's Foreman
- 1932The Wyoming Whirlwind — Writer
- 1932Two-Fisted Law — Artie
- 1931Branded — Stage Robber
- 1931Fifty Fathoms Deep — Mate
- 1931Millie — Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1931The Drums of Jeopardy — Prince Gregor Petroff
- 1931The Last Flight — Officer at Hospital
- 1931The Pagan Lady — Francisco
- 1931The Range Feud — Hank
- 1930Fighting Thru — George 'Tennessee' Malden
- 1930Madam Satan — First Mate
- 1930The Rogue Song — Hassan
- 1930Zampa — The Villain
- 1929Dark Skies — Captain Pedro Real
- 1929Darkened Rooms — Bert Nelson
- 1929Fancy Baggage — Ernest Hardin
- 1929Hit the Deck — Lieutenant Allen
- 1929Sweetie — Bill Barrington
- 1928Blockade — Vincent
- 1928Cook, Papa, Cook — Director
- 1928Tropical Nights — Stavnow
- 1928Wife Trouble — Director
- 1927Drums of the Desert — Will Newton
- 1927Red Signals — Lee Bryson
- 1927Tumbling River — Keechie
- 1927Your Wife and Mine — Robert Warren
- 1926Casey of the Coast Guard — Coast Guardsman
- 1926Faithful Wives — Tom Burke
- 1926Fighting with Buffalo Bill — Ned Wheeler
- 1926Hell's Four Hundred — Marshall Langham
- 1926The Bar-C Mystery — Nevada
- 1926The Checkered Flag — Jack Reese
- 1926Two Can Play — Robert MacForth
- 1925Learning to Love — Professor Bonnard
- 1925Lightnin' — John Marvin
- 1925New Lives for Old — Hugh Warren
- 1925The Charmer — Ralph Bayne
- 1925The Lady — Leonard St. Aubyns
- 1925The Primrose Path — Bruce Armstrong
- 1925Wandering Fires — Norman Yuell
- 1924Curlytop — Bill Branigan
- 1924Love and Glory — Anatole Picard
- 1924Roaring Rails — Malcolm Gregory
- 1924The Heart Bandit — 'Spike' Malone
- 1924The Sea Hawk — Peter Godolphin
- 1924Thy Name Is Woman — Capt. Rodrigo de Castelar
- 1923Maytime — Claude Van Zandt
- 1923The Day of Faith — John Anstell
- 1923The Spoilers — Broncho Kid
- 1922A Fool There Was — Avery Parmelee
- 1922Caught Bluffing — Wallace Towers
- 1922The Sea Raiders — Story
- 1922The Understudy — Tom Manning
- 1922Youth Must Have Love — Earl Stannard
- 1921A Poor Relation — Johnny Smith
- 1921Breaking Through — Willard Ward
- 1921The Sage Hen — Her Son, as a Man
- 1920Are All Men Alike? — Gerry Rhinelander West
- 1920Cinderella's Twin — Prentice Blue
- 1920Moon Madness — Jan
- 1920Rouge and Riches — Tom Rushworth
- 1920The Fighting Shepherdess — Hughie
- 1920Trumpet Island — Richard Bedell
- 1919A Girl Named Mary — Henry Martin
- 1919Brothers Divided — Max King
- 1919Cupid Forecloses — Bruce Cartwright
- 1919Leave It to Susan — Jimmy Dawson
- 1919Spotlight Sadie — Dick Carrington
- 1919The Follies Girl — Ned
- 1919The Little Boss — Clayton Hargis
- 1918Madame Sphinx — Andre Du Bois
- 1918Marked Cards — Ted Breslin
- 1918The Shoes That Danced — Harmony Lad
- 1917The Princess of Park Row — Tom Kearney
- 1916Nanette of the Wilds — Harry Jennings
- 1916Purity — Youth
- 1916Youth's Endearing Charm — Harry Disbrow
- 1915Their Last Haul — Crook
- 1914Caught in a Cabaret — Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1914Dough and Dynamite — Customer
- 1914Fatty Again — The Boarder - Father's Choice
- 1914Love and Bullets — The Trouble Mender's Secretary
- 1914Mabel's Blunder — Harry's Money-Borrowing Friend
- 1914Mabel's Busy Day — Spectator (uncredited)
- 1914Mabel's Married Life — Delivery Boy (uncredited)
- 1914The Face on the Barroom Floor — Drinker
- 1914The Knockout — Spectator / Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1914The Rounders — Diner
- 1914The Star Boarder — Boarder (uncredited)
- 1914Those Love Pangs — Movie Patron (uncredited)
- 1914Tillie's Punctured Romance — Policeman (uncredited)
- 1914Zip, the Dodger — Minta's Sweetheart