Wallace MacDonald
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Wandering Fires
Norman Yuell
1925
Film
Caught in a Cabaret
Party Guest (uncredited)
1914
Film
Hello Trouble
LaTange
1932
Film
Breaking Through
Willard Ward
1921
Film
Gold Diggers of 1933
Stage Manager (uncredited)
1933
Film
Spotlight Sadie
Dick Carrington
1919
Film
The Lady
Leonard St. Aubyns
1925
Film
Brothers Divided
Max King
1919
Film
Caught Bluffing
Wallace Towers
1922
Film
Moon Madness
Jan
1920
Film
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Policeman (uncredited)
1914
Dark Skies
Captain Pedro Real
1929
Film
Trumpet Island
Richard Bedell
1920
Film
Madame Sphinx
Andre Du Bois
1918
Film
Those Love Pangs
Movie Patron (uncredited)
1914
Film
The Bar-C Mystery
Nevada
1926
Film
Madam Satan
First Mate
1930
Film
Night Flight
Mechanic (uncredited)
1933
Film
Drums of the Desert
Will Newton
1927
Film
The Knockout
Spectator / Party Guest (uncredited)
1914
Film
Dough and Dynamite
Customer
1914
Film
The World Changes
Sir Phillip's Best Man (uncredited)
1933
Film
The Mayor of Hell
Man in Johnson's Office (uncredited)
1933
Film
The Pagan Lady
Francisco
1931
Film
Millie
Party Guest (uncredited)
1931
Film
Are All Men Alike?
Gerry Rhinelander West
1920
Film
Blockade
Vincent
1928
Film
Learning to Love
Professor Bonnard
1925
Film
The Rounders
Diner
1914
Film
Fifty Fathoms Deep
Mate
1931
Film
Cinderella's Twin
Prentice Blue
1920
Film
The Last Flight
Officer at Hospital
1931
Love and Bullets
The Trouble Mender's Secretary
1914
Film
The Face on the Barroom Floor
Drinker
1914
Film
The Star Boarder
Boarder (uncredited)
1914
Film
Zip, the Dodger
Minta's Sweetheart
1914
Film
The Range Feud
Hank
1931
Faithful Wives
Tom Burke
1926
Film
Cupid Forecloses
Bruce Cartwright
1919
Film
The Sea Hawk
Peter Godolphin
1924
The Checkered Flag
Jack Reese
1926
Film
The Shoes That Danced
Harmony Lad
1918
Film
Tex Takes a Holiday
Tex
1932
Zampa
The Villain
1930
Film
The Drums of Jeopardy
Prince Gregor Petroff
1931
Film
High Speed
Tom Corliss
1932
Film
Mabel's Blunder
Harry's Money-Borrowing Friend
1914
Film
Tropical Nights
Stavnow
1928
Film
Rouge and Riches
Tom Rushworth
1920
Film
The Heart Bandit
'Spike' Malone
1924
Film
Curlytop
Bill Branigan
1924
Film
Mabel's Busy Day
Spectator (uncredited)
1914
Film
New Lives for Old
Hugh Warren
1925
Film
Fighting Thru
George 'Tennessee' Malden
1930
Film
Their Big Moment
Theater Manager (uncredited)
1934
Fighting with Buffalo Bill
Ned Wheeler
1926
Your Wife and Mine
Robert Warren
1927
Film
Mary Stevens, M.D.
SS Bellocona's Purser (uncredited)
1933
Film
Roaring Rails
Malcolm Gregory
1924
Film
Two Can Play
Robert MacForth
1926
Nanette of the Wilds
Harry Jennings
1916
Film
Texas Cyclone
Nick Lawler
1932
Film
The Princess of Park Row
Tom Kearney
1917
Film
I Loved a Woman
Hayden's First Secretary (uncredited)
1933
Film
Casey of the Coast Guard
Coast Guardsman
1926
Film
A Poor Relation
Johnny Smith
1921
Film
Hit the Deck
Lieutenant Allen
1929
Film
Darkened Rooms
Bert Nelson
1929
Film
The Arm of the Law
Newspaper Reporter
1932
Hell's Four Hundred
Marshall Langham
1926
Film
Youth Must Have Love
Earl Stannard
1922
Film
The Fighting Shepherdess
Hughie
1920
Film
Two-Fisted Law
Artie
1932
Film
A Fool There Was
Avery Parmelee
1922
Film
The Riding Tornado
Dick Stark - Olcott's Foreman
1932
Film
Mabel's Married Life
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
1914
Film
The Primrose Path
Bruce Armstrong
1925
Film
The Vanishing Frontier
Captain Roger Kearney
1933
Film
The Spoilers
Broncho Kid
1923
Film
Sweetie
Bill Barrington
1929
Their Last Haul
Crook
1915
Film
The Day of Faith
John Anstell
1923
Film
Lightnin'
John Marvin
1925
Film
Tumbling River
Keechie
1927
Film
Maytime
Claude Van Zandt
1923
Film
The Charmer
Ralph Bayne
1925
Film
Between Fighting Men
Wally Thompson
1932
Film
The Rogue Song
Hassan
1930
Film
The Follies Girl
Ned
1919
Film
Thy Name Is Woman
Capt. Rodrigo de Castelar
1924
Film
Daring Danger
Jughandle (as Wallace McDonald)
1932
Film
Youth's Endearing Charm
Harry Disbrow
1916
Film
King of the Wild Horses
Gorman
1933
Film
The Sage Hen
Her Son, as a Man
1921
Film
The Understudy
Tom Manning
1922
Film
Purity
Youth
1916
Film
The Little Boss
Clayton Hargis
1919
Film
Leave It to Susan
Jimmy Dawson
1919
Film
Love and Glory
Anatole Picard
1924
Fatty Again
The Boarder - Father's Choice
1914
Film
Red Signals
Lee Bryson
1927
Film
Fancy Baggage
Ernest Hardin
1929
Film
Branded
Stage Robber
1931
Film
A Girl Named Mary
Henry Martin
1919
Marked Cards
Ted Breslin
1918
A Street of Memory
Narrator (voice)
1937