Wallace MacDonald
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.
The Mayor of Hell
as Man in Johnson's Office (uncredited)Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous...
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The Rounders
as DinerTwo drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Policeman (uncredited)A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large...
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Madam Satan
as First MateA socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a...
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The Knockout
as Spectator / Party Guest (uncredited)To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees,...
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Texas Cyclone
as Nick LawlerWhen Texas Grant rides into town people think the supposedly dead Jim Rawlins has returned....
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Night Flight
as Mechanic (uncredited)Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
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Caught in a Cabaret
as Party Guest (uncredited)Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He...
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The Spoilers
as Broncho KidBased on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
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Tropical Nights
as StavnowPatsy Ruth Miller stars as the romantic bone of contention between pearl divers Malcolm McGregor...
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Those Love Pangs
as Movie Patron (uncredited)Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
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Dough and Dynamite
as CustomerPierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the...
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Lightnin'
as John MarvinSet in a hotel straddling the border between California and Nevada, this early John Ford comedy...
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Mabel's Married Life
as Delivery Boy (uncredited)Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband...
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The Range Feud
as HankClint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was...
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The Star Boarder
as Boarder (uncredited)A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his...
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High Speed
as Tom CorlissA policeman, working on a case against a local mobster and his gang, slips on some...
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Two-Fisted Law
as ArtieRancher Tim Clark borrows money from Bob Russell, who then rustles Clark's cattle so he will be...
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I Loved a Woman
as Hayden's First Secretary (uncredited)The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and...
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The Last Flight
as Officer at HospitalCary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the...
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Blockade
as VincentBlockade was one of those curious 1929 hybrids known as a "part-talkie." The story of a...
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The Drums of Jeopardy
as Prince Gregor PetroffA mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his...
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Millie
as Party Guest (uncredited)After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and...
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Sweetie
as Bill BarringtonChorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to...
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Maytime
as Claude Van ZandtOttilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the...
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Their Big Moment
as Theater Manager (uncredited)Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
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The Vanishing Frontier
as Captain Roger KearneyIts 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken...
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The Lady
as Leonard St. AubynsA young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been...
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The Rogue Song
as HassanIn czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a...
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
as SS Bellocona's Purser (uncredited)A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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Daring Danger
as Jughandle (as Wallace McDonald)A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
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Tumbling River
as KeechieTom heroically saves rancher's daughter Dorothy Dwan from both a raging river and a gang of...
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
as DrinkerA painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy...
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Darkened Rooms
as Bert NelsonPhony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms....
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The Fighting Shepherdess
as HughieA young woman fights to keep her Wyoming sheep ranch from being overrun and destroyed by cattle...
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Roaring Rails
as Malcolm GregoryA railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and...
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The Charmer
as Ralph BayneA wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a...
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Are All Men Alike?
as Gerry Rhinelander WestIn this comedy-drama, May Allison plays Teddy Hayden, a very independent society miss. When her...
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Curlytop
as Bill BraniganBig Bill Branigan, one of the tough characters of London's Limehouse district, falls in love...
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Mabel's Busy Day
as Spectator (uncredited)Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down...
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Mabel's Blunder
as Harry's Money-Borrowing FriendMabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of...
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Hello Trouble
as LaTangeAfter killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the...
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Learning to Love
as Professor BonnardA 1925 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
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King of the Wild Horses
as GormanColumbia's King of the Wild Horses is a remake of the silent Hal Roach western feature of the...
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Hit the Deck
as Lieutenant AllenA sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's affections.
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Thy Name Is Woman
as Capt. Rodrigo de CastelarA Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.
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The Sea Hawk
as Peter GodolphinThe adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of...
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A Fool There Was
as Avery ParmeleeA respectable businessman leaves his wife and daughter for the clutches of a cold, heartbreaking...
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The Day of Faith
as John AnstellJane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a...
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A Poor Relation
as Johnny SmithSlaving to perfect an invention, Noah Vale tries to keep two orphans--Rip and Patch--and himself...
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Trumpet Island
as Richard BedellRichard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry...
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Red Signals
as Lee BrysonSabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La...
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The Primrose Path
as Bruce ArmstrongAlcoholic playboy Wallace MacDonald (as Bruce Armstrong) would like to sober up and become more...
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Rouge and Riches
as Tom RushworthRebecca Butler, tired of poverty, takes a job in a Broadway chorus line and determines to marry...
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The Riding Tornado
as Dick Stark - Olcott's ForemanNewcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from...
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Youth's Endearing Charm
as Harry DisbrowOrphan Mary Wade, is the ward of a family of farmers who keep her busy with drudgery. Mr....
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New Lives for Old
as Hugh WarrenOlympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She...
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Fancy Baggage
as Ernest HardinIn order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman...
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The Follies Girl
as NedThe relatives of dying Edward Woodruff, Nina Leffingwell, her brother Frederic, and her cousin...
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Fighting Thru
as George 'Tennessee' MaldenDan and Tennessee are successful gold miners. Ace Brady learns of their success and sends Fox to...
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The Princess of Park Row
as Tom KearneyAfter Baron Alexis swindles the people of Bellaria out of rich mining lands, King Vladimir, who...
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Leave It to Susan
as Jimmy DawsonA Clarence G. Badger silent cowboy western kidnapping mistaken identity romantic comedy, based...
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Two Can Play
as Robert MacForthDorothy Hammis (Bow), the daughter of wealthy financier John Hammis (Fawcett), has chosen as her...
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The Pagan Lady
as FranciscoDot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders...
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Drums of the Desert
as Will NewtonJohn Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from...
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Branded
as Stage RobberA cowboy looking to sell an inherited ranch changes his mind after a female neighbour arrives on...
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The Little Boss
as Clayton HargisThe Little Boss is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by David Smith and...
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Fifty Fathoms Deep
as MateIn this high-seas adventure, a woman creates a great rift between old friends: an experienced...
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Cupid Forecloses
as Bruce CartwrightGeraldine Farleigh, a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late...
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Between Fighting Men
as Wally ThompsonKen not only has to fight with his brother Wally over the girls, he has to try and stop the...
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