Wallace MacDonald
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.
106 acting credits · 3 directing credits
Acting · 106
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933
Millie
1931
Madam Satan
1930
Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933
The Range Feud
1931
Hello Trouble
1932
The Mayor of Hell
1933
The World Changes
1933
Two-Fisted Law
1932
Sweetie
1929
The Sea Hawk
1924
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914
The Rounders
1914
The Drums of Jeopardy
1931
The Last Flight
1931
Texas Cyclone
1932
The Star Boarder
1914
Tropical Nights
1928
The Rogue Song
1930
Mabel's Blunder
1914
Caught in a Cabaret
1914
Dough and Dynamite
1914
Night Flight
1933
Lightnin'
1925
The Vanishing Frontier
1933
The Spoilers
1923
The Bar-C Mystery
1926
Those Love Pangs
1914
The Lady
1925
Hell's Four Hundred
1926
Fancy Baggage
1929
The Knockout
1914
I Loved a Woman
1933
The Face on the Barroom Floor
1914
The Arm of the Law
1932
The Primrose Path
1925
Mabel's Married Life
1914
Hit the Deck
1929
Learning to Love
1925
Nanette of the Wilds
1916
Mabel's Busy Day
1914
Daring Danger
1932
Darkened Rooms
1929
Fighting with Buffalo Bill
1926
Cinderella's Twin
1920
The Day of Faith
1923
Their Big Moment
1934
A Fool There Was
1922
Leave It to Susan
1919
Roaring Rails
1924
Fighting Thru
1930
Tumbling River
1927
High Speed
1932
Curlytop
1924
Rouge and Riches
1920
The Heart Bandit
1924
The Follies Girl
1919
Fifty Fathoms Deep
1931
Maytime
1923
Caught Bluffing
1922
Are All Men Alike?
1920
The Checkered Flag
1926
Love and Glory
1924
Love and Bullets
1914
Red Signals
1927
Faithful Wives
1926
Between Fighting Men
1932
New Lives for Old
1925
Marked Cards
1918
Purity
1916
Trumpet Island
1920
A Girl Named Mary
1919
The Fighting Shepherdess
1920
Madame Sphinx
1918
The Little Boss
1919
Drums of the Desert
1927
Wandering Fires
1925
The Riding Tornado
1932
Youth Must Have Love
1922
Zip, the Dodger
1914
The Charmer
1925
King of the Wild Horses
1933
A Poor Relation
1921
Youth's Endearing Charm
1916
Moon Madness
1920
The Shoes That Danced
1918
The Pagan Lady
1931
The Princess of Park Row
1917
Spotlight Sadie
1919
Their Last Haul
1915
Brothers Divided
1919
Two Can Play
1926
Cupid Forecloses
1919
Thy Name Is Woman
1924
Branded
1931
The Understudy
1922
A Street of Memory
1937
Zampa
1930
Blockade
1928
Dark Skies
1929
The Sage Hen
1921
Fatty Again
1914
Casey of the Coast Guard
1926
Your Wife and Mine
1927
Breaking Through
1921
Tex Takes a Holiday
1932
