Wallace MacDonald
- Acting
- May 4, 1891 · Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada
- October 30, 1978
Biography
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
Filmography
- Gunmen from Laredo · Director, Producer
- Return to Warbow · Producer
- The Hard Man · Executive producer
- No Time to Be Young · Producer
- The Phantom Stagecoach · Producer
- The White Squaw · Producer
- Fury at Gunsight Pass · Producer
- Apache Ambush · Producer
- Cell 2455 Death Row · Producer
- Massacre Canyon · Producer
- Wyoming Renegades · Producer
- Ambush at Tomahawk Gap · Producer
- Man in the Dark · Producer
- Target Hong Kong · Producer
- Harem Girl · Producer
- Corky of Gasoline Alley · Producer
- The Big Gusher · Producer
- Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard · Producer
- The Tougher They Come · Producer
- Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang · Producer
- Rusty's Birthday · Producer
- Air Hostess · Producer
- Rusty Saves a Life · Producer
- Rusty Leads the Way · Producer
- Port Said · Producer
- My Dog Rusty · Producer
- The Wreck of the Hesperus · Producer
- When a Girl's Beautiful · Producer
- The Son of Rusty · Producer
- Personality Kid · Producer
- The Unknown · Producer
- My Name Is Julia Ross · Producer
- Eve Knew Her Apples · Producer
- Escape in the Fog · Producer
- A Guy, a Gal and a Pal · Producer
- I Love a Mystery · Producer
- The Missing Juror · Producer
- Cry of the Werewolf · Producer
- She's a Soldier Too · Producer
- Sailor's Holiday · Producer
- The Chance of a Lifetime · Producer
- Passport to Suez · Producer
- Redhead from Manhattan · Producer
- Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood · Producer
- Lucky Legs · Producer
- Counter-Espionage · Producer
- Parachute Nurse · Producer
- Submarine Raider · Producer
- Hello, Annapolis · Producer
- Alias Boston Blackie · Producer
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! · Producer
- The Man Who Returned to Life · Associate Producer
- Honolulu Lu · Producer
- Two Latins from Manhattan · Producer
- Harmon of Michigan · Producer
- The Devil Commands · Producer
- The Face Behind the Mask · Producer
- Glamour for Sale · Producer
- Before I Hang · Producer
- Military Academy · Executive producer
- Girls of the Road · Producer
- Men Without Souls · Producer
- The Man with Nine Lives · Producer
- The Man They Could Not Hang · Producer
- Behind Prison Gates · Producer
- Highway Patrol · Producer
- The Shadow · Producer
- Murder in Greenwich Village · Associate Producer
- Venus Makes Trouble · Producer
- A Street of Memory · Narrator (Voice)
- Doughnuts and Society · Story, Screenplay
- Hitch Hike Lady · Story
- The Fighting Marines · Story
- The Phantom Empire · Story
- In Old Santa Fe · Story
- Their Big Moment · Theater Manager (uncredited)
- The World Changes · Sir Phillip's Best Man (uncredited)
- King of the Wild Horses · Gorman
- Night Flight · Mechanic (uncredited)
- I Loved a Woman · Hayden's First Secretary (uncredited)