Wallace MacDonald Biography (1891-1978)

Surname is sometimes spelled "McDonald;" born May 5, 1891, in Mulgrave, NovaScotia, Canada; died October 30, 1978, in Santa Barbara, CA; married Doris May, May 5, 1921. Career: Producer, director, writer, and actor. RKO Radio Pictures, script supervisor, c. 1935-36. Military service: Enlistedwith the British Army during World War I.

Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Male
Occupation: Producer, director, writer, actor
Birth Details: May 5, 1891; Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death Details: October 30, 1978; Santa Barbara, California, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Producer
Venus Makes Trouble, Columbia, 1937
The Shadow, Columbia, 1937
Murder in Greenwich Village, Columbia, 1937
A Dangerous Adventure, Columbia, 1937
Criminals of the Air (also known as Guardians of the Air and Honeymoon Pilot), Columbia, 1937
Counsel for Crime, Columbia, 1937
All-American Sweetheart, Columbia, 1937
When G-Men Step In, Columbia, 1938
The Lone Wolf in Paris, Columbia, 1938
Little Miss Roughneck, Columbia, 1938
Highway Patrol, Columbia, 1938
Girls' School, Columbia, 1938
City Streets, Columbia, 1938
North of Shanghai, Columbia, 1939
My Son Was a Criminal, Columbia, 1939
The Man They Could Not Hang, Columbia, 1939
Konga, the Wild Stallion (also known as Konga), Columbia, 1939
Behind Prison Gates, Columbia, 1939
Romance of the Redwoods, Columbia, 1939
Military Academy, Columbia, 1940
Men without Souls, Columbia, 1940
Glamour for Sale, Columbia, 1940
Girls of the Road, Columbia, 1940
Before I Hang, Columbia, 1940
The Man with Nine Lives (also known as Behind the Door), Columbia, 1940
Two Latins from Manhattan, Columbia, 1941
Naval Academy, Columbia, 1941
I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island, Columbia, 1941
Harmon of Michigan, Columbia, 1941
The Face behind the Mask, Columbia, 1941
Honolulu Lu, Columbia, 1941
The Devil Commands (also known as The Devil Said No and When the Devil Commands), Columbia, 1941
The Big Boss, Columbia, 1941
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Columbia, 1942
Submarine Raider, Columbia, 1942
Parachute Nurse, Columbia, 1942
A Man's World, Columbia, 1942
The Man Who Returned to Life, Columbia, 1942
Lucky Legs, Columbia, 1942
Hello, Annapolis (also known as Personal Honor), Columbia,1942
Harvard, Here I Come!, Columbia, 1942
Counter-Espionage, Columbia, 1942
Cadets on Parade, Columbia, 1942
Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood (also known as Blackie Goes to Hollywood), Columbia, 1942
Alias Boston Blackie, Columbia, 1942
Two Senoritas from Chicago, Columbia, 1943
Redhead from Manhattan, Columbia, 1943
The Racket Man, Columbia, 1943
Passport to Suez, Columbia, 1943
The Chance of a Lifetime, Columbia, 1943
U-Boat Prisoner, Columbia, 1944
Stars on Parade, Columbia, 1944
She's a Soldier, Too, Columbia, 1944
Sailor's Holiday, Columbia, 1944
The Missing Juror, Columbia, 1944
Cry of the Werewolf (also known as Daughter of the Werewolf), Columbia, 1944
My Name is Julia Ross, Columbia, 1945
I Love a Mystery, Columbia, 1945
Escape in the Fog, Columbia, 1945
Dancing in Manhattan, Columbia, 1945
Eve Knew Her Apples, Columbia, 1945
The Unknown, Columbia, 1946
Personality Kid, Columbia, 1946
Out of the Depths, Columbia, 1946
The Devil's Mask, Columbia, 1946
When a Girl's Beautiful, Columbia, 1947
My Dog Rusty, Columbia, 1948
Son of Rusty, Columbia, 1948
The Wreck of the Hesperus, Columbia, 1948
Rusty Leads the Way, Columbia, 1948
Port Said, Columbia, 1948
Rusty's Birthday, Columbia, 1949
Rusty Saves a Life, Columbia, 1949
Law of the Barbary Coast, Columbia, 1949
Air Hostess, Columbia, 1949
The Tougher They Come, Columbia, 1950
On the Isle of Samoa, Columbia, 1950
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang (also known as Military Academy and Sentence Suspended), Columbia, 1950
Girls' School (also known as Dangerous Inheritance), Columbia, 1950
Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard, Columbia, 1950
Beauty on Parade, Columbia, 1950
Flame of Stamboul, Columbia, 1951
Corky of Gasoline Alley, Columbia, 1951
Chain of Circumstance, Columbia, 1951
The Big Gusher, Columbia, 1951
Associate producer, Target Hong Kong, Columbia, 1952
Okinawa, Columbia, 1952
Harem Girl, Columbia, 1952
The Nebraskan, Columbia, 1953
Man in the Dark, Columbia, 1953

El Alamein, Columbia, 1953
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap, Columbia, 1953
The Outlaw Stallion (also known as The White Stallion), Columbia, 1954
Massacre Canyon, Columbia, 1954
The Black Dakotas, Columbia, 1954
Wyoming Renegades, Columbia, 1955
Cell 2455, Death Row, 1955
Apache Ambush, Columbia, 1955
The White Squaw, Columbia, 1956
Secret of Treasure Mountain, Columbia, 1956
Fury at Gunsight Pass, Columbia, 1956
No Time to Be Young (also known as The Big Day and Teenage Delinquents), Columbia, 1957
The Phantom Stagecoach, Columbia, 1957
Return to Warbow, Columbia, 1958
Gunmen from Laredo, Columbia, 1959
Film Director
Girl from the West (silent), Aywon, 1923
Free Lips (silent), First Division, 1928
Gunmen from Laredo, Columbia, 1959
Film Appearances
Delivery boy, Mabel's Married Life (silent; also known as The Squarehead and When You're Married), Keystone, 1914
Mabel's Busy Day (silent; also known as Charlie and the Sausages, Hot Dogs, and Love and Lunch), Keystone, 1914
Drinker, The Face on the Bar Room Floor (silent; also known as The Ham Actor and The Ham Artist), Keystone, 1914
Caught in a Cabaret (silent; also known as Faking with Society, Jazz Waiter, and The Waiter), Keystone, 1914
Diner, The Rounders (silent; also known as Revelry and Two of a Kind), Keystone, 1914
Striking baker, Dough and Dynamite (silent; also known as The Cook, The Doughnut Designer, and The New Cook), Keystone, 1914
Policeman, Tillie's Punctured Romance (silent; also known as For the Love of Tillie, Marie's Millions, Tillie's Big Romance and Tillie's Nightmare), Keystone Film Co., 1914
Thomas, The Secretary of Frivolous Affairs (silent), Mutual, 1915
Harry Disbrow, Youth's Endearing Charm (silent; also known as Youth's Melting Pot), Mutual, 1916
Youth, Purity (silent), Mutual, 1916
The Princess' Necklace (silent), 1917
The Princess of Park Row (silent), 1917
Marked Cards (silent), 1918
Harmony lad, Shoes that Danced (silent), Triangle, 1918
Henry Martin, A Girl Named Mary (silent), Paramount-Artcraft, 1919
Dick Carrington, Spotlight Sadie (silent; also known as The Saintly Show Girl), Goldwyn, 1919
Ned, The Follies Girl (silent; also known as A Siren in the House), Triangle/S. A. Lynch, 1919
Leave It to Susan (silent), 1919
Clayton Hargis, The Little Boss (silent), Vitagraph, 1919
Bruce Cartwright, Cupid Forecloses (silent), Vitagraph, 1919
Are All Men Alike? (silent), Metro, 1920
Hughie, The Fighting Shepardess (silent; also known as Vindication), First National, 1920
Prentice Blue, Cinderella's Twin (silent), Metro, 1920
Trumpet Island (silent), 1920
The sage hen's son, The Sage Hen (silent), Pathe, 1921
Johnny Smith, A Poor Relation (silent), Goldwyn, 1921
David Ross, The Fire Cat (silent), Universal, 1921
Breaking Through (silent serial), Vitagraph, 1921
Anthony Sheridan, The Foolish Matrons (silent), Maurice Tourneur,1921
Youth Must Have Love (silent; also known as An Unexpected Wife), 1922
Avery Parmelee, A Fool There Was (silent), Twentieth Century-Fox,1922
Wallace Towers, Caught Bluffing (silent), Universal, 1922
Under Oath (silent), 1922
The Understudy (silent), 1922
Broncho Kid, The Spoilers (silent), Goldwyn, 1923
John Anstell, The Day of Faith (silent), Goldwyn-Cosmopolitan, 1923
Claude Van Zandt, Maytime (silent), Preferred, 1923
Girl from the West (silent), Aywon, 1923
Peter Godolphin, The Sea Hawk (silent), Associated First National,1924
"Spike" Malone, The Heart of a Bandit (silent; also known as The Heart Bandit), Metro, 1924
Anatole Picard, Love and Glory (silent), Universal, 1924
Bill Branigan, Curlytop (silent), Universal, 1924
Roaring Rails (silent), Producers Distributing Corp., 1924
Thy Name Is Woman (silent), 1924
Norman Yuell, Wandering Fires (silent), Arrow, 1925
Bruce Armstrong, The Primrose Path (silent), Arrow, 1925
Professor Bonnard, Learning to Love (silent), First National, 1925
Leonard St. Aubyns, The Lady (silent), First National, 1925
Hugh Warren, New Lives for Old (silent), Paramount, 1925
Ralph Bayne, The Charmer (silent), Paramount, 1925
John Marvin, Lightin' (silent), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1925
George Brockton, Heir-Loons (silent), Pathe, 1925
Wilbur Minafer, Pampered Youth (silent), Vitagraph, 1925
Robert MacForth, Two Can Play (silent), Associated Exhibitors, 1926
Fighting with Buffalo Bill (silent), Universal, 1926
Jack Reese, The Checkered Flag (silent), Banner, 1926
Marshall Langham, Hell's 400 (silent), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1926
Nevada, The Bar-C Mystery (silent), Pathe, 1926
Tom Burke, Faithful Wives (silent), Platinum, 1926
Will Newton, Drums of the Desert (silent), Paramount, 1927
Johnny Haines, His Foreign Wife (silent), Pathe, 1927
Red Signals (silent), Sterling, 1927
Your Wife and Mine (silent), 1927
Tumbling River (silent), 1927
Whispering Smith Rides (silent), 1927
Vincent, Blockade (silent), RKO Radio Pictures, 1928
Tropical Nights (silent), 1928
Ernest Hardin, Fancy Baggage, Warner Bros., 1929
Bill Barington, Sweetie, Paramount, 1929
Bert Nelson, Darkened Rooms, Paramount, 1929
Captain Pedro Real, Dark Skies (also known as Darkened Skies), Capitol, 1930
Lieutenant Allen, Hit the Deck, RKO Radio Pictures, 1930
Hassan, The Rogue Song, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1930
First mate, Madam Satan (also known as Madame Satan), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1930
Tennessee Malden, Fighting Through (also known as California in1878 and Fightin' Thru), Tiffany, 1930
Francisco, Pagan Lady, Columbia, 1931
Cigar stand clerk, Smart Money, Warner Bros., 1931
Stage Robber, Branded, Columbia, 1931
Hank, The Range Feud, Columbia, 1931
Mate, Fifty Fathoms Deep, Columbia, 1931
Prince Gregor, The Drums of Jeopardy (also known as Mask of Terror), Tiffany, 1931
Captain Kearnery, Vanishing Frontier, Paramount, 1932
High Speed, Columbia, 1932
LeTange, Hello Trouble, Columbia, 1932
Jughandle, Daring Danger, Columbia, 1932
Wally, Between Fighting Men, World Wide, 1932
Nick Lawlor, Texas Cyclone, Columbia, 1932
Arm of the Law, Monogram, 1932
Dick Stark, The Riding Tornado, Columbia, 1932
Artie, Two-Fisted Law, Columbia, 1932
Tex Takes a Holiday, First Division, 1932
Johnson's assistant, The Mayor of Hell, Warner Bros., 1933
Purser, Mary Stevens, M.D., Warner Bros., 1933
Stage manager, Gold Diggers of 1933 (also known as High Life), Warner Bros., 1933
Airplane pilot, Flying Down to Rio, RKO Radio Pictures, 1933
Clint Bolling, The King of the Wild Horses (also known as Kingof the Wild), Columbia, 1933
Sailor's Holiday, Columbia, 1944
A Guy, A Gal, and a Pal, Columbia, 1945
My Name is Julia Ross, Columbia, 1945
Out of the Depths, Columbia, 1946
When a Girl's Beautiful, Columbia, 1947
Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard, Columbia, 1950
Harem Girl, Columbia, 1952
Okinawa, Columbia, 1952
El Alamein, Columbia, 1953
Outlaw Stallion (also known as The White Stallion), Columbia, 1954
Apache Ambush, Columbia, 1955
Return to Warbow, Columbia, 1958
WRITINGS
Screenplays, Unless Otherwise Noted
Story only, In Old Santa Fe (also known as Down in Old Santa Fe), Mascot, 1934
Story only, The Phantom Empire (also known as Gene Autry and the Phantom Empire), Mascot, 1935
Story only, The Fighting Marines, Republic, 1935
Story only, Hitch Hike Lady, Republic, 1936
Story only, Hearts in Bondage, Republic, 1936
And story, Doughnuts and Society (also known as Stepping into Society), Republic 1936
Story only, Men with Steel Faces (also known as Radio Ranch), Times, 1940

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