Francis McDonald
Biography
Francis McDonald (August 22, 1891 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor whose career spanned 52 years.
McDonald's started acting professionally in stock theater with the Forepaugh Stock Company in Cincinnati. Following eight months with it, he worked one season with a stock company in Seattle, after which he performed for three seasons with a troupe in San Diego and Honolulu. He concluded his tenure in stock theater as juvenile leading man with the American Stock Company in Spokane, Washington.
By 1913 McDonald began to perform in the rapidly expanding film industry, initially working for Marion Leonard's Monopole Company in Hollywood. He was cast in over 280 films between 1913 and 1965, including The Temptress in 1926 with Greta Garbo. After he was designated "Hollywood's Prettiest Man," McDonald sought a tougher image by shaving his mustache and seeking roles of villains.
McDonald was one of Cecil B. DeMille's favorite character actors.[citation needed] DeMille gave him credited supporting roles in six of his films: The Plainsman (1936), The Buccaneer (1938), Union Pacific (1939), North West Mounted Police (1940), Samson and Delilah (1949), and The Ten Commandments (1956).
Acting (202 movies)
Parole Racket
1937
Dig That Uranium
1955
Panhandle
1948
Satan in Sables
1925
The Gates of Doom
1917
Mr. Dolan of New York
1917
Voice in the Night
1934
The Sea Wolf
1941
The Woman Conquers
1922
Rancho Notorious
1952
Terror Trail
1933
The Courageous Coward
1919
Love's Prisoner
1919
The Buster
1923
The Golden Snare
1921
Mary of the Movies
1923
Life in Hollywood No. 4
1927
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
1934
The Kansan
1943
Trooper O'Neill
1922
Texas Masquerade
1944
Mystery Man
1944
Lumberjack
1944
Battling Butler
1926
Roll on Texas Moon
1946
North West Mounted Police
1940
The Nevadan
1950
Thunder Over Arizona
1956
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
Fort Massacre
1958
The Catman of Paris
1946
Monte Cristo
1922
The Bandits of Corsica
1953
The Voice on the Wire
1917
Criminal Lawyer
1937
Go Straight!
1925
Perils of the Secret Service
1917
The Naked Dawn
1955
If I Were King
1938
Buckskin Frontier
1943
Tangier
1946
Zorro's Black Whip
1944
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
1934
Duel at Apache Wells
1957
The Light That Failed
1939
The Temptress
1926
The Stranger Wore a Gun
1953
The Legion of the Condemned
1928
The Lawyer's Secret
1931
Bad Lands
1939
Mystery of the Riverboat
1944
Dangerous Paradise
1930
Abandoned
1949
Union Pacific
1939
The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932
Ten Wanted Men
1955
Straightaway
1933
Woman-Wise
1937
The Runaway Bride
1930
Burning Up
1930
Broadway Bad
1933
Rose of the Yukon
1949
The Carnation Kid
1929
Robin and the 7 Hoods
1964
Samson and Delilah
1949
Trailing the Killer
1932
Red Morning
1934
The Raiders
1952
Wild West Days
1937
Blood and Sand
1941
Daughter of the Jungle
1949
The Devil's Pipeline
1940
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
1933
Robin Hood of El Dorado
1936
Safety in Numbers
1930
The Plainsman
1936
The Devil's in Love
1933
Captain Fly-by-Night
1922
Mummy's Boys
1936
West Point of the Air
1935
Devil's Playground
1937
Black Orchids
1917
Mississippi
1935
Idiot's Delight
1939
White Fang
1936
Beau Geste
1939
The Valley of Hell
1928
The Love Doctor
1917
My Lady of Whims
1925
The Palace of Pleasure
1926
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940
Two Gun Marshal
1953
Belle of the Yukon
1944
Girl in Danger
1934
A Girl in Every Port
1928
Woman in Hiding
1950
Green Hell
1940
Morocco
1930
Bad Day at Black Rock
1955
Notorious
1946
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