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