Wallace MacDonald

Acting · 0.5 popularity

Age

135

Movies

106

Born: May 4, 1891 – October 30, 1978
From: Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada

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.

Works

106 films

Hello Trouble

19327.0

Caught in a Cabaret

19145.8

Gold Diggers of 1933

19337.2

Spotlight Sadie

19199.0

Moon Madness

19208.0

Brothers Divided

19197.0

Tillie's Punctured Romance

19146.2

The Lady

19255.8

The Bar-C Mystery

19268.0

Breaking Through

19219.0

Wandering Fires

192510.0

Trumpet Island

19207.5

Caught Bluffing

192210.0

Madam Satan

19305.9

Madame Sphinx

1918

The Knockout

19145.8

The Star Boarder

19145.3

Drums of the Desert

19277.0

Those Love Pangs

19145.7

Night Flight

19335.8

Dark Skies

19295.5

Dough and Dynamite

19146.1

Millie

19315.3

The Mayor of Hell

19337.0

The World Changes

19334.8

Zampa

19307.0

Fifty Fathoms Deep

19313.7

Love and Bullets

1914

Cupid Forecloses

19199.0

Roaring Rails

19246.9

The Rounders

19146.1

Mabel's Blunder

19145.2

Are All Men Alike?

19207.0

Blockade

192810.0

Mabel's Busy Day

19145.7

Cinderella's Twin

19209.0

The Sea Hawk

19246.8

Tex Takes a Holiday

19328.0

The Checkered Flag

19267.0

The Last Flight

19316.5

I Loved a Woman

19334.8

The Drums of Jeopardy

19315.4

Casey of the Coast Guard

19267.0

Your Wife and Mine

19279.0

Rouge and Riches

19207.0

Fighting with Buffalo Bill

19268.0

The Heart Bandit

19248.0

The Princess of Park Row

1917

Texas Cyclone

19324.5

The Range Feud

19315.2

A Fool There Was

192210.0

Two Can Play

19269.0

Two-Fisted Law

19324.8

The Fighting Shepherdess

192010.0

Curlytop

192410.0

The Pagan Lady

19314.0

High Speed

19325.0

Youth Must Have Love

19229.0

The Face on the Barroom Floor

19145.4

The Shoes That Danced

1918

Mary Stevens, M.D.

19336.2

Zip, the Dodger

1914

Nanette of the Wilds

1916

Daring Danger

193210.0

Their Big Moment

19344.7

Thy Name Is Woman

19247.0

Hit the Deck

19298.5

The Day of Faith

19238.0

The Spoilers

19239.0

The Vanishing Frontier

19338.0

Mabel's Married Life

19145.9

Hell's Four Hundred

19269.0

Tropical Nights

19288.0

New Lives for Old

19259.0

Lightnin'

19256.6

Fighting Thru

19307.0

The Sage Hen

192110.0

Between Fighting Men

19326.0

Tumbling River

19278.0

The Arm of the Law

19325.3

The Follies Girl

19198.0

Love and Glory

192410.0

The Primrose Path

19255.8

Faithful Wives

192610.0

Leave It to Susan

19199.0

Darkened Rooms

19296.6

Their Last Haul

191510.0

Fancy Baggage

192910.0

Purity

19162.0

The Rogue Song

19306.5

Branded

19316.5

Maytime

19237.0

The Little Boss

191910.0

Sweetie

19296.6

The Riding Tornado

19327.0

The Charmer

19257.0

King of the Wild Horses

19338.0

A Poor Relation

19218.0

Marked Cards

1918

Red Signals

19279.0

Youth's Endearing Charm

1916

A Girl Named Mary

19199.0

Learning to Love

19259.0

Fatty Again

1914

The Understudy

192210.0

A Street of Memory

193710.0