From Wikipedia Wallace Archibald MacDonald (5 May 1891, Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada - 30 October 1978, Santa Barbara California) was a Canadian silent film actor, and 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 starred 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 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.
Movie | A Street of Memory | Narrator (voice) | 1937-01-22 |
Movie | Their Big Moment | Theater Manager (uncredited) | 1934-08-17 |
Movie | Mary Stevens, M.D. | SS Bellocona's Purser (uncredited) | 1933-07-22 |
Movie | The Mayor of Hell | Man in Johnson's Office (uncredited) | 1933-06-24 |
Movie | I Loved a Woman | Hayden's First Secretary (uncredited) | 1933-09-23 |
Movie | Night Flight | Mechanic (uncredited) | 1933-10-06 |
Movie | Texas Cyclone | Nick Lawler | 1932-02-24 |
Movie | Two-Fisted Law | Artie | 1932-06-08 |
Movie | Between Fighting Men | Wally Thompson | 1932-10-15 |
Movie | Fifty Fathoms Deep | Mate | 1931-08-20 |
Movie | Millie | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1931-02-06 |
Movie | The Last Flight | Officer at Hospital | 1931-08-29 |
Movie | The Drums of Jeopardy | Prince Gregor Petroff | 1931-03-01 |
Movie | Branded | Stage Robber | 1931-09-01 |
Movie | The Range Feud | Hank | 1931-10-14 |
Movie | The Pagan Lady | Francisco | 1931-09-07 |
Movie | The Rogue Song | Hassan | 1930-01-17 |
Movie | Fighting Thru | George 'Tennessee' Malden | 1930-12-25 |
Movie | Madam Satan | First Mate | 1930-09-20 |
Movie | Sweetie | Bill Barrington | 1929-10-25 |
Movie | Fancy Baggage | Ernest Hardin | 1929-01-26 |
Movie | Darkened Rooms | Bert Nelson | 1929-11-23 |
Movie | Hit the Deck | Lieutenant Allen | 1929-12-25 |
Movie | Blockade | Vincent | 1928-12-16 |
Movie | The Checkered Flag | Jack Reese | 1926-01-19 |
Movie | Two Can Play | Robert MacForth | 1926-02-21 |
Movie | Hell's Four Hundred | 1926-03-14 | |
Movie | The Lady | Leonard St. Aubyns | 1925-02-08 |
Movie | Learning to Love | Professor Bonnard | 1925-01-25 |
Movie | The Charmer | Ralph Bayne | 1925-04-20 |
Movie | Lightnin' | John Marvin | 1925-08-23 |
Movie | The Primrose Path | Bruce Armstrong | 1925-09-14 |
Movie | Thy Name Is Woman | Capt. Rodrigo de Castelar | 1924-02-04 |
Movie | The Sea Hawk | Peter Godolphin | 1924-06-14 |
Movie | Roaring Rails | Malcolm Gregory | 1924-09-20 |
Movie | Curlytop | Bill Branigan | 1924-12-28 |
Movie | The Day of Faith | John Anstell | 1923-10-20 |
Movie | Maytime | Claude Van Zandt | 1923-11-17 |
Movie | A Fool There Was | Avery Parmelee | 1922-06-18 |
Movie | A Poor Relation | Johnny Smith | 1921-12-30 |
Movie | Rouge and Riches | Tom Rushworth | 1920-02-09 |
Movie | Trumpet Island | Richard Bedell | 1920-09-01 |
Movie | The Fighting Shepherdess | Hughie | 1920-03-01 |
Movie | The Little Boss | Clayton Hargis | 1919-06-02 |
Movie | Marked Cards | Ted Breslin | 1918-07-14 |
Movie | The Princess of Park Row | Tom Kearney | 1917-10-01 |
Movie | Mabel's Married Life | Delivery Boy (uncredited) | 1914-06-20 |
Movie | Love and Bullets | The Trouble Mender's Secretary | 1914-07-04 |
Movie | Mabel's Busy Day | Spectator (uncredited) | 1914-06-13 |
Movie | The Knockout | Spectator / Party Guest (uncredited) | 1914-06-11 |
Movie | The Star Boarder | Boarder (uncredited) | 1914-04-04 |
Movie | Caught in a Cabaret | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1914-04-27 |
Movie | The Face on the Barroom Floor | Drinker | 1914-08-10 |
Movie | The Rounders | Diner | 1914-09-07 |
Movie | Dough and Dynamite | Customer | 1914-10-26 |
Movie | Tillie's Punctured Romance | Policeman (uncredited) | 1914-12-21 |
Movie | Zip, the Dodger | Minta's Sweetheart | 1914-10-17 |
Movie | Those Love Pangs | Movie Patron (uncredited) | 1914-10-10 |
Movie | Fatty Again | The Boarder - Father's Choice | 1914-10-03 |
Movie | Mabel's Blunder | Harry's Money-Borrowing Friend | 1914-09-12 |