Wallace MacDonald
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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
Mary Stevens, M.D.
SS Bellocona's Purser (uncredited)
The Drums of Jeopardy
Prince Gregor Petroff
Night Flight
Mechanic (uncredited)
Caught in a Cabaret
Party Guest (uncredited)
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Policeman (uncredited)
Madam Satan
First Mate
Roaring Rails
Malcolm Gregory
Millie
Party Guest (uncredited)
Texas Cyclone
Nick Lawler
I Loved a Woman
Hayden's First Secretary (uncredited)
Two-Fisted Law
Artie
The Knockout
Spectator / Party Guest (uncredited)
The Mayor of Hell
Man in Johnson's Office (uncredited)
The Rogue Song
Hassan
Their Big Moment
Theater Manager (uncredited)
Mabel's Married Life
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Mabel's Busy Day
Spectator (uncredited)
The Vanishing Frontier
Captain Roger Kearney
The Star Boarder
Boarder (uncredited)
Those Love Pangs
Movie Patron (uncredited)
The Sea Hawk
Peter Godolphin
The Range Feud
Hank
The Face on the Barroom Floor
Drinker
Daring Danger
Jughandle (as Wallace McDonald)
The Spoilers
Broncho Kid
King of the Wild Horses
Gorman
The Day of Faith
John Anstell
Sweetie
Bill Barrington
Lightnin'
John Marvin
The Primrose Path
Bruce Armstrong
Red Signals
Lee Bryson
Mabel's Blunder
Harry's Money-Borrowing Friend
Dough and Dynamite
Customer
Maytime
Claude Van Zandt
The Lady
Leonard St. Aubyns
Fancy Baggage
Ernest Hardin
High Speed
Tom Corliss
A Street of Memory
Narrator (voice)
Hell's Four Hundred
Marshall Langham
Tropical Nights
Stavnow
Curlytop
Bill Branigan
The Charmer
Ralph Bayne
The Riding Tornado
Dick Stark - Olcott's Foreman
Hello Trouble
LaTange
Fifty Fathoms Deep
Mate
The Rounders
Diner
Learning to Love
Professor Bonnard
New Lives for Old
Hugh Warren
Hit the Deck
Lieutenant Allen
The Last Flight
Officer at Hospital
Between Fighting Men
Wally Thompson
Drums of the Desert
Will Newton
Darkened Rooms
Bert Nelson
Blockade
Vincent
Leave It to Susan
Jimmy Dawson
The Arm of the Law
Newspaper Reporter
Tumbling River
Keechie
A Poor Relation
Johnny Smith
Fatty Again
The Boarder - Father's Choice
The Little Boss
Clayton Hargis
Love and Glory
Anatole Picard
Are All Men Alike?
Gerry Rhinelander West
Marked Cards
Ted Breslin
Branded
Stage Robber
Thy Name Is Woman
Capt. Rodrigo de Castelar
Rouge and Riches
Tom Rushworth
The Checkered Flag
Jack Reese
Fighting Thru
George 'Tennessee' Malden
Love and Bullets
The Trouble Mender's Secretary
The Pagan Lady
Francisco
A Fool There Was
Avery Parmelee
Two Can Play
Robert MacForth
The Understudy
Tom Manning
The Sage Hen
The Fighting Shepherdess
Hughie
Faithful Wives
Tom Burke
Their Last Haul
Crook
Zip, the Dodger
Minta's Sweetheart
The Princess of Park Row
Tom Kearney
Wandering Fires
Norman Yuell
The Follies Girl
Ned
Trumpet Island
Richard Bedell
Zampa
The Villain
Youth's Endearing Charm
Harry Disbrow
Cupid Forecloses
Bruce Cartwright