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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 | 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 | The Mayor of Hell | Man in Johnson's Office (uncredited) | 1933-06-24 |
Movie | Night Flight | Mechanic (uncredited) | 1933-10-06 |
Movie | King of the Wild Horses | Gorman | 1933-11-10 |
Movie | Texas Cyclone | Nick Lawler | 1932-02-24 |
Movie | Two-Fisted Law | Artie | 1932-06-08 |
Movie | Hello Trouble | LaTange | 1932-07-15 |
Movie | Between Fighting Men | Wally Thompson | 1932-10-15 |
Movie | Fifty Fathoms Deep | Mate | 1931-08-20 |
Movie | Millie | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1931-02-06 |
Movie | The Drums of Jeopardy | Prince Gregor Petroff | 1931-03-01 |
Movie | The Last Flight | Officer at Hospital | 1931-08-29 |
Movie | Branded | Stage Robber | 1931-09-01 |
Movie | The Range Feud | Hank | 1931-10-14 |
Movie | The Pagan Lady | Francisco | 1931-09-07 |
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 | Two Can Play | Robert MacForth | 1926-02-21 |
Movie | Hell's Four Hundred | 1926-03-14 | |
Movie | The Lady | Leonard St. Aubyns | 1925-02-08 |
Movie | Learning to Love | Professor Bonnard | 1925-01-25 |
Movie | New Lives for Old | Hugh Warren | 1925-02-22 |
Movie | The Charmer | Ralph Bayne | 1925-04-20 |
Movie | The Primrose Path | Bruce Armstrong | 1925-09-14 |
Movie | Lightnin' | John Marvin | 1925-08-23 |
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 Day of Faith | John Anstell | 1923-10-20 |
Movie | The Spoilers | Broncho Kid | 1923-08-26 |
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 | The Fighting Shepherdess | Hughie | 1920-03-01 |
Movie | Are All Men Alike? | Gerry Rhinelander West | 1920-11-08 |
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 | Mabel's Married Life | Delivery Boy (uncredited) | 1914-06-20 |
Movie | Mabel's Busy Day | Spectator (uncredited) | 1914-06-13 |
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 | Mabel's Blunder | Harry's Money-Borrowing Friend | 1914-09-12 |
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 | Fatty Again | The Boarder - Father's Choice | 1914-10-03 |
Movie | The Rounders | Diner | 1914-09-07 |