Hamilton MacFadden

Born: 1901-04-26

Hamilton MacFadden (April 26, 1901 – January 1, 1977) was an American actor, screenwriter and film director. MacFadden's parents were Rev. Robert A. MacFadden and Edith Hamilton MacFadden. His father died in 1909, leaving his mother to support herself and four children. In 1928, she became the first woman to file papers to run for governor of Massachusetts. MacFadden was a 1925 graduate of Harvard University. Soon after graduating, he became producer of the American Theatre Company, which presented plays for 10 weeks in the Boston area. The project was backed by Michael Strange, a writer who made her professional stage debut in the productions. He also served as director of the Community Arts Association in Santa Barbara, California, and the Theatre Guild School of Acting in New York. Plays that MacFadden produced on Broadway included Gods of the Lightning and La Gringa. After starting out on Broadway in the 1920s, he moved into filmmaking in Hollywood. During the early 1930s he was a contract director at Fox. McFadden made a number of films for them including several early entries in the Charlie Chan series such as Charlie Chan Carries On (1931). He was released from his Fox contract following the 1934 merger with Twentieth Century Pictures. Thereafter he mixed occasional directing jobs with a number of small supporting appearances in films. Later in his career, MacFadden was associate chief of the United States Department of State's international motion picture division.


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The Reluctant Dragon

as Hamilton MacFadden
Released: 1941-06-19

Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a...

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The Lady in Question

as Guard (uncredited)
Released: 1940-08-07

When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

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Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6

as Hamilton MacFadden (archive footage)
Released: 2004-05-31

Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young...

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The Black Camel

as Val Martino (uncredited)
Released: 1931-06-21

Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but...

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Sleepers West

as uncredited
Released: 1941-03-14

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder...

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Charlie Chan in Reno

as Night Clerk
Released: 1939-06-16

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of...

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The Jones Family in Hollywood

as Townsend - Director
Released: 1939-06-02

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a...

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Dressed to Kill

as Reporter
Released: 1941-08-08

A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

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Tarnished Angel

as Reverend Summers
Released: 1938-10-28

A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony...

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Young America

as Jim Benson
Released: 1942-02-06

Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G....

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Charlie Chan in Rio

as Bill Kellogg
Released: 1941-09-05

In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan...

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Chicken Wagon Family

as Auctioneer
Released: 1939-08-10

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile...

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Michael Shayne: Private Detective

as Reporter
Released: 1940-12-19

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter...

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Shooting High

as J. Wallace Rutledge
Released: 1940-04-25

A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

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Sharpshooters

as Bowman
Released: 1938-11-18

Ace newsreel cameraman is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated....

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While New York Sleeps

as Pete - Reporter
Released: 1938-12-16

Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

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