Acting · Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada · Born May 4, 1891
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.
A Street of Memory
1937
as Narrator (voice)
MovieTheir Big Moment
1934
as Theater Manager (uncredited)
MovieThe World Changes
1933
as Sir Phillip's Best Man (uncredited)
MovieKing of the Wild Horses
1933
as Gorman
MovieNight Flight
1933
as Mechanic (uncredited)
MovieI Loved a Woman
1933
as Hayden's First Secretary (uncredited)
MovieMary Stevens, M.D.
1933
as SS Bellocona's Purser (uncredited)
MovieThe Mayor of Hell
1933
as Man in Johnson's Office (uncredited)
MovieGold Diggers of 1933
1933
as Stage Manager (uncredited)
MovieThe Vanishing Frontier
1933
as Captain Roger Kearney
MovieTex Takes a Holiday
1932
as Tex
MovieBetween Fighting Men
1932
as Wally Thompson
MovieHello Trouble
1932
as LaTange
MovieDaring Danger
1932
as Jughandle (as Wallace McDonald)
MovieTwo-Fisted Law
1932
as Artie
MovieThe Riding Tornado
1932
as Dick Stark - Olcott's Foreman
MovieThe Arm of the Law
1932
as Newspaper Reporter
MovieHigh Speed
1932
as Tom Corliss
MovieTexas Cyclone
1932
as Nick Lawler
MovieThe Range Feud
1931
as Hank
MovieThe Pagan Lady
1931
as Francisco
MovieBranded
1931
as Stage Robber
MovieThe Last Flight
1931
as Officer at Hospital
MovieFifty Fathoms Deep
1931
as Mate
MovieThe Drums of Jeopardy
1931
as Prince Gregor Petroff
MovieMillie
1931
as Party Guest (uncredited)
MovieFighting Thru
1930
as George 'Tennessee' Malden
MovieMadam Satan
1930
as First Mate
Zampa
1930
as The Villain
MovieThe Rogue Song
1930
as Hassan
MovieHit the Deck
1929
as Lieutenant Allen
Dark Skies
1929
as Captain Pedro Real
MovieDarkened Rooms
1929
as Bert Nelson
MovieSweetie
1929
as Bill Barrington
MovieFancy Baggage
1929
as Ernest Hardin
MovieBlockade
1928
as Vincent
MovieTropical Nights
1928
as Stavnow
MovieTumbling River
1927
as Keechie
Your Wife and Mine
1927
as Robert Warren
MovieDrums of the Desert
1927
as Will Newton
MovieRed Signals
1927
as Lee Bryson
Faithful Wives
1926
as Tom Burke
Fighting with Buffalo Bill
1926
as Ned Wheeler
MovieThe Bar-C Mystery
1926
as Nevada
Hell's Four Hundred
1926
as Marshall Langham
MovieTwo Can Play
1926
as Robert MacForth
MovieCasey of the Coast Guard
1926
as Coast Guardsman
The Checkered Flag
1926
as Jack Reese
Wandering Fires
1925
as Norman Yuell
MovieThe Primrose Path
1925
as Bruce Armstrong
MovieLightnin'
1925
as John Marvin
MovieThe Charmer
1925
as Ralph Bayne
MovieNew Lives for Old
1925
as Hugh Warren
MovieThe Lady
1925
as Leonard St. Aubyns
MovieLearning to Love
1925
as Professor Bonnard
MovieCurlytop
1924
as Bill Branigan
MovieLove and Glory
1924
as Anatole Picard
MovieRoaring Rails
1924
as Malcolm Gregory
MovieThe Sea Hawk
1924
as Peter Godolphin
MovieThy Name Is Woman
1924
as Capt. Rodrigo de Castelar
MovieThe Heart Bandit
1924
as 'Spike' Malone
MovieMaytime
1923
as Claude Van Zandt
MovieThe Day of Faith
1923
as John Anstell
MovieThe Spoilers
1923
as Broncho Kid
MovieYouth Must Have Love
1922
as Earl Stannard
MovieCaught Bluffing
1922
as Wallace Towers
MovieThe Understudy
1922
as Tom Manning
MovieA Fool There Was
1922
as Avery Parmelee
MovieA Poor Relation
1921
as Johnny Smith
MovieBreaking Through
1921
as Willard Ward
MovieThe Sage Hen
1921
as Her Son, as a Man
MovieCinderella's Twin
1920
as Prentice Blue
MovieAre All Men Alike?
1920
as Gerry Rhinelander West
MovieTrumpet Island
1920
as Richard Bedell
MovieMoon Madness
1920
as Jan
MovieThe Fighting Shepherdess
1920
as Hughie
MovieRouge and Riches
1920
as Tom Rushworth
MovieA Girl Named Mary
1919
as Henry Martin
MovieBrothers Divided
1919
as Max King
MovieCupid Forecloses
1919
as Bruce Cartwright
MovieThe Little Boss
1919
as Clayton Hargis
MovieLeave It to Susan
1919
as Jimmy Dawson
MovieThe Follies Girl
1919
as Ned
MovieSpotlight Sadie
1919
as Dick Carrington
Marked Cards
1918
as Ted Breslin
MovieMadame Sphinx
1918
as Andre Du Bois
MovieThe Shoes That Danced
1918
as Harmony Lad
MovieThe Princess of Park Row
1917
as Tom Kearney
Nanette of the Wilds
1916
as Harry Jennings
MovieYouth's Endearing Charm
1916
as Harry Disbrow
MoviePurity
1916
as Youth
Their Last Haul
1915
as Crook
MovieTillie's Punctured Romance
1914
as Policeman (uncredited)
MovieDough and Dynamite
1914
as Customer
MovieZip, the Dodger
1914
as Minta's Sweetheart
MovieThose Love Pangs
1914
as Movie Patron (uncredited)
Fatty Again
1914
as The Boarder - Father's Choice
MovieMabel's Blunder
1914
as Harry's Money-Borrowing Friend
MovieThe Rounders
1914
as Diner
MovieThe Face on the Barroom Floor
1914
as Drinker
Love and Bullets
1914
as The Trouble Mender's Secretary
MovieMabel's Married Life
1914
as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
MovieMabel's Busy Day
1914
as Spectator (uncredited)
MovieThe Knockout
1914
as Spectator / Party Guest (uncredited)
MovieCaught in a Cabaret
1914
as Party Guest (uncredited)
MovieThe Star Boarder
1914
as Boarder (uncredited)
