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.
Movie | A Street of Memory | Narrator (voice) | 1937-01-22 |
Movie | Their Big Moment | Theater Manager (uncredited) | 1934-08-17 |
Movie | The Mayor of Hell | Man in Johnson's Office (uncredited) | 1933-06-24 |
Movie | Mary Stevens, M.D. | SS Bellocona's Purser (uncredited) | 1933-07-22 |
Movie | I Loved a Woman | Hayden's First Secretary (uncredited) | 1933-09-23 |
Movie | Night Flight | Mechanic (uncredited) | 1933-10-06 |
Movie | King of the Wild Horses | Gorman | 1933-11-10 |
Movie | High Speed | Tom Corliss | 1932-04-02 |
Movie | Texas Cyclone | Nick Lawler | 1932-02-24 |
Movie | The Arm of the Law | Newspaper Reporter | 1932-04-19 |
Movie | Between Fighting Men | Wally Thompson | 1932-10-15 |
Movie | Two-Fisted Law | Artie | 1932-06-08 |
Movie | Hello Trouble | LaTange | 1932-07-15 |
Movie | The Drums of Jeopardy | Prince Gregor Petroff | 1931-03-01 |
Movie | The Last Flight | Officer at Hospital | 1931-08-29 |
Movie | Millie | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1931-02-06 |
Movie | Fifty Fathoms Deep | Mate | 1931-08-20 |
Movie | The Range Feud | Hank | 1931-10-14 |
Movie | The Pagan Lady | Francisco | 1931-09-07 |
Movie | Branded | Stage Robber | 1931-09-01 |
Movie | The Rogue Song | Hassan | 1930-01-17 |
Movie | Fighting Thru | George 'Tennessee' Malden | 1930-12-25 |
Movie | Madam Satan | First Mate | 1930-09-20 |
Movie | Sweetie | Bill Barrington | 1929-10-25 |
Movie | Fancy Baggage | Ernest Hardin | 1929-01-26 |
Movie | Darkened Rooms | Bert Nelson | 1929-11-23 |
Movie | Hit the Deck | Lieutenant Allen | 1929-12-25 |
Movie | Tropical Nights | Stavnow | 1928-12-10 |
Movie | Blockade | Vincent | 1928-12-16 |
Movie | Red Signals | Lee Bryson | 1927-03-01 |
Movie | The Checkered Flag | Jack Reese | 1926-01-19 |
Movie | Hell's Four Hundred | Marshall Langham | 1926-03-14 |
Movie | Two Can Play | Robert MacForth | 1926-02-21 |
Movie | New Lives for Old | Hugh Warren | 1925-02-22 |
Movie | Learning to Love | Professor Bonnard | 1925-01-25 |
Movie | The Lady | Leonard St. Aubyns | 1925-02-08 |
Movie | The Charmer | Ralph Bayne | 1925-04-20 |
Movie | Lightnin' | John Marvin | 1925-08-23 |
Movie | The Primrose Path | Bruce Armstrong | 1925-09-14 |
Movie | The Sea Hawk | Peter Godolphin | 1924-06-14 |
Movie | Thy Name Is Woman | Capt. Rodrigo de Castelar | 1924-02-04 |
Movie | Roaring Rails | Malcolm Gregory | 1924-09-20 |
Movie | Curlytop | Bill Branigan | 1924-12-28 |
Movie | The Spoilers | Broncho Kid | 1923-08-26 |
Movie | The Day of Faith | John Anstell | 1923-10-20 |
Movie | Maytime | Claude Van Zandt | 1923-11-17 |
Movie | A Fool There Was | Avery Parmelee | 1922-06-18 |
Movie | A Poor Relation | Johnny Smith | 1921-12-30 |
Movie | Rouge and Riches | Tom Rushworth | 1920-02-09 |
Movie | The Fighting Shepherdess | Hughie | 1920-03-01 |
Movie | Are All Men Alike? | Gerry Rhinelander West | 1920-11-08 |
Movie | Trumpet Island | Richard Bedell | 1920-09-01 |
Movie | Leave It to Susan | Jimmy Dawson | 1919-05-25 |
Movie | The Little Boss | Clayton Hargis | 1919-06-02 |
Movie | Marked Cards | Ted Breslin | 1918-07-14 |
Movie | The Princess of Park Row | Tom Kearney | 1917-10-01 |
Movie | Youth's Endearing Charm | Harry Disbrow | 1916-09-04 |
Movie | Mabel's Busy Day | Spectator (uncredited) | 1914-06-13 |
Movie | Mabel's Married Life | Delivery Boy (uncredited) | 1914-06-20 |
Movie | Love and Bullets | The Trouble Mender's Secretary | 1914-07-04 |
Movie | Caught in a Cabaret | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1914-04-27 |
Movie | The Star Boarder | Boarder (uncredited) | 1914-04-04 |
Movie | The Face on the Barroom Floor | Drinker | 1914-08-10 |
Movie | The Knockout | Spectator / Party Guest (uncredited) | 1914-06-11 |
Movie | Fatty Again | The Boarder - Father's Choice | 1914-10-03 |
Movie | Dough and Dynamite | Customer | 1914-10-26 |
Movie | Tillie's Punctured Romance | Policeman (uncredited) | 1914-12-21 |
Movie | Zip, the Dodger | Minta's Sweetheart | 1914-10-17 |
Movie | Those Love Pangs | Movie Patron (uncredited) | 1914-10-10 |
Movie | Mabel's Blunder | Harry's Money-Borrowing Friend | 1914-09-12 |
Movie | The Rounders | Diner | 1914-09-07 |