Wallace MacDonald
Acting
🎂 1891-05-04
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.
Cast credits(86)
Man in Johnson's Office (uncredited)
1933
Tom Corliss
1932
Party Guest (uncredited)
1931
Bert Nelson
1929
Peter Godolphin
1924
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
1914
Nick Lawler
1932
Officer at Hospital
1931
LaTange
1932
Artie
1932
Ted Breslin
1918
Jack Reese
1926
Hayden's First Secretary (uncredited)
1933
Captain Roger Kearney
1933
Hugh Warren
1925
Hassan
1930
Francisco
1931
Boarder (uncredited)
1914
Hank
1931
Malcolm Gregory
1924
Wally Thompson
1932
Customer
1914
Theater Manager (uncredited)
1934
Movie Patron (uncredited)
1914
Will Newton
1927
Prince Gregor Petroff
1931
Mechanic (uncredited)
1933
Norman Yuell
1925
Diner
1914
Drinker
1914
Anatole Picard
1924
Broncho Kid
1923
SS Bellocona's Purser (uncredited)
1933
Leonard St. Aubyns
1925
Vincent
1928
George 'Tennessee' Malden
1930
Party Guest (uncredited)
1914
First Mate
1930
Spectator (uncredited)
1914
Policeman (uncredited)
1914
John Anstell
1923
Bruce Armstrong
1925
Spectator / Party Guest (uncredited)
1914
Stavnow
1928
Marshall Langham
1926
Ernest Hardin
1929
Tom Manning
1922
Gorman
1933
Bill Barrington
1929
John Marvin
1925
Newspaper Reporter
1932
Professor Bonnard
1925
Bill Branigan
1924
Crook
1915
Ned
1919
Tom Rushworth
1920
The Villain
1930
Hughie
1920
Mate
1931
Claude Van Zandt
1923
The Trouble Mender's Secretary
1914
The Boarder - Father's Choice
1914
Ralph Bayne
1925
Richard Bedell
1920
Robert MacForth
1926
Stage Robber
1931
Tom Kearney
1917
Johnny Smith
1921
Jimmy Dawson
1919
Minta's Sweetheart
1914
Dick Stark - Olcott's Foreman
1932
Avery Parmelee
1922
Harry Disbrow
1916
Tom Burke
1926
Keechie
1927
Capt. Rodrigo de Castelar
1924
Her Son, as a Man
1921
Youth
1916
Harry's Money-Borrowing Friend
1914
Lieutenant Allen
1929
Clayton Hargis
1919
Gerry Rhinelander West
1920
Jughandle (as Wallace McDonald)
1932
Bruce Cartwright
1919
Lee Bryson
1927
Narrator (voice)
1937
Directing (3)
Production (68)
Producer
1959
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1955
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1955
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1957
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1953
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1956
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1948
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1941
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1951
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1958
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1943
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1939
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1941
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1942
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1952
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1950
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1943
Executive Producer
1957
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1941
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1949
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1953
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1937
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1944
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1945
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1949
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1944
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1947
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1940
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1954
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1956
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1953
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1940
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1946
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1939
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1942
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1954
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1947
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1937
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1942
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1949
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1945
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1937
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1950
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1940
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1941
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