Wallace MacDonald
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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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.934 |
| Birthday | 1891-05-04 |
| Place of Birth | Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Also Known As | Wallace Archibald MacDonald, Wallace Mac Donald, Wallace McDonald, Wheeler MacDonald, |
1914
Dough and Dynamite
6.087/46
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks...
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1914
Caught in a Cabaret
5.6/50
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1914
The Rounders
6.1/60
Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
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The Rounders
1914
The Face on the Barroom Floor
5.2/41
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
1914
Mabel's Married Life
5.795/66
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
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1924
Curlytop
0/0
Big Bill Branigan, one of the tough characters of London's Limehouse district, falls in love with Curlytop because of her sweet innocence. He leaves h...
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Curlytop
1933
The Mayor of Hell
7.1/26
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1931
The Range Feud
5.2/18
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The Range Feud
1931
The Pagan Lady
2.5/2
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The Pagan Lady
1933
Mary Stevens, M.D.
6/11
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
1937
A Street of Memory
0/0
A look at some sights in Olvera St. in Los Angeles, California.
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A Street of Memory
1930
Fighting Thru
0/0
Dan and Tennessee are successful gold miners. Ace Brady learns of their success and sends Fox to rob them. During the robbery Fox shoots Tennessee and...
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Fighting Thru
1925
The Primrose Path
5/3
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The Primrose Path
1931
The Drums of Jeopardy
5.2/13
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1930
The Rogue Song
5/3
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1932
Between Fighting Men
5/2
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1923
Maytime
6.5/2
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1923
The Day of Faith
0/0
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The Day of Faith
1925
Lightnin'
5.2/4
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Lightnin'
1924
The Sea Hawk
6.536/14
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.
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The Sea Hawk
1914
The Knockout
5.648/44
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The Knockout
1914
Tillie's Punctured Romance
6.196/69
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914
The Star Boarder
5/40
A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.
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The Star Boarder
1914
Those Love Pangs
5.5/49
Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
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Those Love Pangs
1914
Mabel's Busy Day
5.6/36
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Mabel's Busy Day
1929
Darkened Rooms
6.75/4
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1924
Roaring Rails
6.8/3
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Roaring Rails
1929
Sweetie
6/1
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.
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Sweetie
1925
The Lady
5.5/5
A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has le...
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The Lady
1925
The Charmer
0/0
A wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a prominent theatrical producer. Billed as "The Charmer," Maripo...
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The Charmer
1932
Two-Fisted Law
5/13
Rancher Tim Clark borrows money from Bob Russell, who then rustles Clark's cattle so he will be unable to repay the money. Thus Russell is able to che...
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Two-Fisted Law
1931
The Last Flight
6.9/11
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1925
Learning to Love
0/0
A 1925 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
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1929
Fancy Baggage
0/0
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Fancy Baggage
1932
Texas Cyclone
4.6/10
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Texas Cyclone
1931
Fifty Fathoms Deep
1/1
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Fifty Fathoms Deep
1920
The Fighting Shepherdess
0/0
A young woman fights to keep her Wyoming sheep ranch from being overrun and destroyed by cattle ranchers.
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1930
Madam Satan
5.8/20
A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.
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1926
Two Can Play
0/0
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1924
Thy Name Is Woman
0/0
A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.
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1914
Mabel's Blunder
5.4/21
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Mabel's Blunder
1933
King of the Wild Horses
0/0
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King of the Wild Horses
1933
Night Flight
5.722/18
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
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1928
Tropical Nights
0/0
Patsy Ruth Miller stars as the romantic bone of contention between pearl divers Malcolm McGregor and Wallace MacDonald. When McGregor's brother is mur...
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Tropical Nights
1920
Are All Men Alike?
0/0
In this comedy-drama, May Allison plays Teddy Hayden, a very independent society miss. When her childhood sweetheart, Gerry West (Wallace MacDonald) t...
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Are All Men Alike?
1923
The Spoilers
0/0
Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
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1931
Millie
5.6/15
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Millie
1919
Leave It to Susan
0/0
A Clarence G. Badger silent cowboy western kidnapping mistaken identity romantic comedy, based on a story by Rex Taylor; about a rich woman who gets l...
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Leave It to Susan
1925
New Lives for Old
0/0
Olympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becomes a spy and provides valuable intelligence inform...
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New Lives for Old
1921
A Poor Relation
0/0
Slaving to perfect an invention, Noah Vale tries to keep two orphans--Rip and Patch--and himself by peddling books and is helped by Scallops, a girl w...
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A Poor Relation
1922
A Fool There Was
0/0
A respectable businessman leaves his wife and daughter for the clutches of a cold, heartbreaking female.
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A Fool There Was
1932
High Speed
2/1
A policeman, working on a case against a local mobster and his gang, slips on some race-car-driver overalls and goggles and, in addition to stopping t...
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High Speed
1926
The Checkered Flag
0/0
Wallace MacDonald as a car mechanic who invents a revolutionary new carburetor. To prove the efficiency of his creation, MacDonald enters an important...
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The Checkered Flag
1932
The Riding Tornado
0/0
Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. Then loses the $1000 to Engle in a poker game. Torr...
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The Riding Tornado
1932
Daring Danger
0/0
A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
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Daring Danger
1916
Youth's Endearing Charm
0/0
Orphan Mary Wade, is the ward of a family of farmers who keep her busy with drudgery. Mr. Jenkins, the head of the household, makes advances to Mary,...
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Youth's Endearing Charm
1920
Trumpet Island
5/1
Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry another man. But fate still has more in store.
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Trumpet Island
1919
The Little Boss
0/0
The Little Boss is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by David Smith and produced by Vitagraph Studios.[2] The story and screenplay...
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The Little Boss
1919
Cupid Forecloses
0/0
Geraldine Farleigh, a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father's debt to Bruce Cartwright.
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Cupid Forecloses
1921
The Sage Hen
0/0
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The Sage Hen
1934
Their Big Moment
4.5/4
Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
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Their Big Moment
1927
Red Signals
0/0
Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to ear...
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Red Signals
1929
Hit the Deck
9/1
A sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's affections.
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Hit the Deck
1930
Zampa
0/0
In this one cowboy stars Rooseveldt and McDonald enact a rescued damsel plot complete with sword fight.
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Zampa
1926
Hell's Four Hundred
0/0
A chorus girl breaks a deal with her boss by marrying the rich man she was supposed to ruin.
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Hell's Four Hundred
1919
The Follies Girl
0/0
The relatives of dying Edward Woodruff, Nina Leffingwell, her brother Frederic, and her cousin Basil, whom she wants to marry, scheme to inherit Woodr...
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The Follies Girl
1927
Tumbling River
0/0
Tom heroically saves rancher's daughter Dorothy Dwan from both a raging river and a gang of cattle rustlers led by popular western villain Wallace McD...
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Tumbling River
1914
Zip, the Dodger
0/0
Zip, the Dodger
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Zip, the Dodger
1927
Drums of the Desert
0/0
John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploiting the tribe's secret altars. Realizing that there...
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Drums of the Desert
1931
Branded
6/1
A cowboy looking to sell an inherited ranch changes his mind after a female neighbour arrives on the scene.
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Branded
1932
Hello Trouble
6/1
After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits...
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Hello Trouble
1920
Rouge and Riches
0/0
Rebecca Butler, tired of poverty, takes a job in a Broadway chorus line and determines to marry a millionaire.
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Rouge and Riches
1933
I Loved a Woman
4.833/12
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in l...
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I Loved a Woman
1918
Marked Cards
0/0
Ellen Shannon, the daughter of self-made Irish politician Pat Shannon, is engaged to Ted Breslin, but because Pat began his career as a menial laborer...
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Marked Cards
1914
Love and Bullets
0/0
Love and Bullets is a 1914 Comedy short
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Love and Bullets
1914
Fatty Again
0/0
Fatty experiences several reverses of fortunes in this boarding house story. He is first ejected for failure to pay his board. He then fixes up a post...
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Fatty Again
1917
The Princess of Park Row
0/0
After Baron Alexis swindles the people of Bellaria out of rich mining lands, King Vladimir, who is told by his counselor Kronski that Alexis bought th...
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The Princess of Park Row
1928
Blockade
0/0
Blockade was one of those curious 1929 hybrids known as a "part-talkie." The story of a dauntless female prohibition agent. In her pursuit of a gang o...
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Blockade
1933
The Vanishing Frontier
0/0
Its 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken over by soldiers and when two of Kirby's men are captur...
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The Vanishing Frontier
1925
Wandering Fires
0/0
A young woman, victim of a scandal involving her lover believed killed in France during war, is loved by another man who urges her to marry him. After...
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