Wallace MacDonald
Biography
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.
Acting (79 movies)
Dough and Dynamite
1914
The Vanishing Frontier
1933
Caught in a Cabaret
1914
Tumbling River
1927
Drums of the Desert
1927
Zip, the Dodger
1914
Hello Trouble
1932
Branded
1931
Mabel's Married Life
1914
The Face on the Barroom Floor
1914
The Rounders
1914
The Mayor of Hell
1933
Rouge and Riches
1920
I Loved a Woman
1933
The Range Feud
1931
The Pagan Lady
1931
Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933
Fighting Thru
1930
The Princess of Park Row
1917
The Primrose Path
1925
The Drums of Jeopardy
1931
Blockade
1928
The Rogue Song
1930
Between Fighting Men
1932
Maytime
1923
The Day of Faith
1923
The Sea Hawk
1924
Lightnin'
1925
The Star Boarder
1914
Those Love Pangs
1914
The Knockout
1914
Mabel's Busy Day
1914
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914
Darkened Rooms
1929
Roaring Rails
1924
Curlytop
1924
Sweetie
1929
The Lady
1925
The Charmer
1925
Two-Fisted Law
1932
The Last Flight
1931
Love and Glory
1924
Learning to Love
1925
Fancy Baggage
1929
Texas Cyclone
1932
Fifty Fathoms Deep
1931
The Fighting Shepherdess
1920
Madam Satan
1930
Two Can Play
1926
Thy Name Is Woman
1924
Mabel's Blunder
1914
King of the Wild Horses
1933
Night Flight
1933
Tropical Nights
1928
Are All Men Alike?
1920
The Spoilers
1923
Millie
1931
Leave It to Susan
1919
New Lives for Old
1925
A Poor Relation
1921
A Fool There Was
1922
High Speed
1932
The Riding Tornado
1932
Daring Danger
1932
Youth's Endearing Charm
1916
Trumpet Island
1920
The Sage Hen
1921
The Little Boss
1919
Cupid Forecloses
1919
Their Big Moment
1934
Red Signals
1927
Hit the Deck
1929
The Follies Girl
1919
The Arm of the Law
1932
The Understudy
1922
Purity
1916
The Bar-C Mystery
1926
The Heart Bandit
1924
A Girl Named Mary
1919
