Wallace MacDonald
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Wallace MacDonald | |
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 MacDonald in an ad in The Moving Picture World (1916) | |
| Born | (1891-05-05)5 May 1891 Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Died | 30 October 1978(1978-10-30) (aged 87) Santa Barbara, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor Film producer |
| Years active | 1912–1959 |
Wallace Archibald MacDonald (5 May 1891 in Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada – 30 October 1978 in Santa Barbara California) was a Canadian silent film actor and film producer.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Selected filmography
2.1 As actor
2.2 As writer
2.3 As producer
2.4 As director
3 References
4 External links
Biography
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 branch 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.[1]
Norma Talmadge and Wallace MacDonald in The Lady (1925)
MacDonald started as an actor in films in 1914 and starred 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.[1][2]
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 they bear a physical resemblance and were born in 1891, they were born three months apart and spelled their surnames differently.[citation needed]
Selected filmography
As actor
The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914 short)
Dough and Dynamite (1914 short)
Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) as Keystone Cop (uncredited)
Madame Sphinx (1918)
Spotlight Sadie (1919)
Cupid Forecloses (1919)
The Little Boss (1919)
A Girl Named Mary (1919)
Rouge and Riches (1920)
Cinderella's Twin (1920)
Are All Men Alike? (1920)
The Foolish Matrons (1921)
The Sage Hen (1921)
The Day of Faith (1923)
Maytime (1923)
Thy Name Is Woman (1924)
Roaring Rails (1924)
The Sea Hawk (1924)
The Lady (1925)
The Charmer (1925)
New Lives for Old (1925)
Lightnin' (1925)
The Bar-C Mystery (1926)
Two Can Play (1926)
Hell's Four Hundred (1926)
The Checkered Flag (1926)
Fighting with Buffalo Bill (1926)
Whispering Smith Rides (1927)
Blockade (1928)
Fancy Baggage (1929)
Darkened Rooms (1929)
Hit the Deck (1930)
Madam Satan (1930)
The Drums of Jeopardy (1931)
The Pagan Lady (1931)
Branded (1931)
The Range Feud (1931)
High Speed (1932)
The Riding Tornado (1932)
Daring Danger (1932)
Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)
As writer
Cornered (1932) (screenplay)
The Phantom Empire (1935) (story)
As producer
Counsel for Crime (1937)
Murder in Greenwich Village (1937)
Girls of the Road (1940)
Glamour for Sale (1940)
The Man with Nine Lives (1940) (uncredited)
Before I Hang (1940) (uncredited)
The Devil Commands (1941)
Harvard, Here I Come! (1941)
The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
Counter-Espionage (1942)
A Man's World (1942)
The Devil's Mask (1946)
On the Isle of Samoa (1950)
Man in the Dark (1953)
The Nebraskan (1953)
Return to Warbow (1958)
Gunmen from Laredo (1959) - also directed
As director
Free Lips (1928)
References
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^ "Attestation Papers". Archived from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 31 January 2009.
External links
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Wallace MacDonald on IMDb
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