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Wallace MacDonald

Wallace MacDonald
Foto: Albert Witzel (1879-1929)

1891 - 1978

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Der Schauspieler und Produzent Wallace MacDonald wurde in Nova Scotia in Kanada geboren. Er begann seine berufliche Laufbahn als Laufbursche in Kanada, danach arbeitete er als Kassierer bei der Royal Bank in Sydney und später in Vancouver.

Schliesslich ging er nach Kalifornien, wo er erste schauspielerische Erfahrungen beim Theater sammelte, ehe er nach Hollywood ging, um auch beim Film Fuss zu fassen.

Er begann seine Filmlaufbahn 1912 mit "Disillusioned" (12) und in den nächsten Jahren folgten weitere Filme wie "The Rounders" (14), "Dought and Dynamite" (14), "Tillie's Punctured Romance" (14), "Their Last Haul" (15), "Purity" (16), "The Princess' Necklace" (17), "Madame Sphinx" (18), "Leave It to Susan" (19) und "A Girl Named Mary" (19).
In der Anfangszeit seiner Laufbahn spielte er auch öfters an der Seite von Charlie Chaplin mit, so in "The Star Boarder" (14), "Caught in a Cabaret" (14), "Mabel's Busy Day", "Mabel's Married Life" (14) und "The Face on the Bar Room Floor" (14).

In den 20er Jahren erlebte er den Höhepunkt seiner Laufbahn und er agierte in bekannten Filmen wie "The Fighting Shepherdess" (20), "Cinderella's Twin" (20), "The Understudy" (22), "The Spoilers" (23), "Maytime" (23), "The Sea Hawk" (24), "Roaring Rails" (24), "The Charmer" (25), "Fighting with Buffalo Bill" (26), "Your Wife and Mine" (27), "Blockade" (28) und "Hit the Deck" (29).

Der Tonfilm läutete schnell das Ende seine schauspielerischen Karriere ein und er verkörperte in den 30er Jahren nur noch kleine Rollen. Dazu gehören "Madam Satan" (30), "Millie" (31), "Branded" (31), "High Speed" (32), "Gold Diggers of 1933" (33), "Voltaire" (33), "The World Changes" (33) und "Their Big Moment" (34).

Er versuchte sich danach als Drehbuchautor und verfasste die Scripts für Filme wie "Cornered" (32), "In Old Santa Fe" (34), "The Phantom Empire" (35), "Hearts in Bondage" (36) und "Men with Steel Faces" (40).

Schliesslich erhielt er die Chance, für Columbia Pictures als Produzent für die sogenannten B-Movies zu werden. Er ergriff die Chance und in den nächsten Jahrzehnten entstanden eine Vielzahl von Filmen, die er als Produzent realisierte.
Zu seinen bekanntesten Filmen der 30er und 40er Jahre gehören "Parole Racket" (37), "Venus Makes Trouble" (37), "Murder in Greenwich Village" (37), "Women in Prison" (38), "The Man They Could Not Hang" (39), "Men Without Souls" (40), "The Face Behind the Mask" (41), "I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island" (41), "Counter-Espionage" (42), "Passport to Suez" (43), "Cry of the Werewolf" (44), "The Devil's Mask" (46), "Port Said" (48) und "Law of the Barbary Coast" (49).

In den 50er Jahren entstanden seine letzten produzierten Filme wie "Flame of Stamboul" (51), "Target Hong Kong" (53), "The Nebraskan" (53), "The Black Dakotas" (54), "Secret of Treasure Mountain" (56), "The Phantom Stagecoach" (57) und "Gunmen from Laredo" (59).

Wallace MacDonald war mit der Schauspielerin Doris May verheiratet.


Weitere Filme mit Wallace MacDonald:
The Knockout (14) Love and Bullets (14) A Fatal Sweet Tooth (14) Mabel's Blunder (14) Fatty Again (14) Hello, Mabel (14) Those Love Pangs (14) Zip, the Dodger (14) Stout Hearts But Weak Knees (14) The Baron's Bear Escape (14) Miss Fatty's Seaside Livers (15) Her Musical Cook (15) The Secretary of Frivolous Affairs (15) Incognito (15) Mischief and a Mirror (16) Won by One (16) Youth's Endearing Charm (16) Nanette of the Wilds (16) Vanity and Some Sables (17) The Princess of Park Row (17) Next Door to Nancy (17) The Marriage Speculation (17) The Shoes That Danced (18) Mll. Paulette (18) Marked Cards (18) Spotlight Sadie (19) The Follies Girl (19) The Little Boss (19) Cupid Forecloses (19) Brothers Divided (19) Rouge and Riches (20) Moon Madness (20) Trumpet Island (20) Are All Men Alike? (20) The Sage Hen (21) The Fire Cat (21) The Foolish Matrons (21) Breaking Through (21) A Poor Relation (21) A Fool There Was (22) Under Oath (22) Caught Bluffing (22) Youth Must Have Love (22) The Day of Faith (23) The Heart Bandit (24) Thy Name Is Woman (24) Love and Glory 24) Curlytop (24) Learning to Love (25) The Lady (25) Pampered Youth (2) New Lives for Old (25) Lightnin' (25) Heir-Loons (25) The Primrose Path (25) Wandering Fires (25) The Checkered Flag (25) Casey of the Coast Guard (26) Two Can Play (26) Hell's Four Hundred (26) The Bar-C Mystery (26) Faithful Wives (26) Red Signals (27) Drums of the Desert (27) Whispering Smith Rides (27) Tumbling River (27) His Foreign Wife (27) Mother Machree (28) Tropical Nights (28) Fancy Baggage (29) Sweetie (29) Darkened Rooms (29) Dark Skies (29) The Rogue Song (30) Zampa (30) Fighting Thru; or, California in 1878 (30) The Drums of Jeopardy (31) Smart Money (31) The Last Flight (31) Fifty Fathoms Deep (31) The Pagan Lady (31) The Range Feud (31) Texas Cyclone (32) It's Tough to Be Famous (32) Arm of the Law (32) The Riding Tornado (32) Two-Fisted Law (32) Hello Trouble (32) Daring Danger (32) The Vanishing Frontier (32) Between Fighting Men (32) Tex Takes a Holiday (32) The Mayor of Hell (33) Mary Stevens. M.D. (33) I Loved a Woman (33) Night Flight (33) King of the Wild Horses (33) Flying Down to Rio (33)

Produzent:
Criminals of the Air (37) A Dangerous Adventure (37) Counsel for Crime (37) All-American Sweetheart (37) The Shadow (37) Little Miss Roughneck (38) When G-Men Step In (38) The Lone Wolf in Paris (38) Highway Patrol (38) City Streets (38) Girls' School (38) North of Shanghai(39) My Son Is a Criminal (39) Romance of the Redwoods (39) Behind Prison Gates (39)  Konga, the Wild Stallion (39) The Man with Nine Lives (40) Girls of the Road (40) Military Academy (40) Before I Hang (40) Glamour for Sale (40) The Devil Commands (41) Thbe Big Boss (41) Naval Academy (41) Harmon of Michigan (41) Two Latins from Manhattan (41) Honolulu Lu (41) Harvard, Here I Come! (41) Cadets on Parade (42) The Man Who Returned to Life (42) Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (42) Alias Boston Blackie (42) Hello, Annapolis (42) Submarine Raider (42) Parachute Nurse (42) A Man's World (42) Lucky Legs (42) Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood (42) Redhead from Manhattan (43) Two Senoritas from Chicago (43) The Canche of a Lifetime (43) The Racket Man (44) Sailor's Holiday (44) Stars on Parade (44) She's a Soldier Too (44) U-Boat Prisoner (44) The Missing Juror (44) Dancing in Manhattan (44) I Love a Mystery (45) A Guy, a Gal and a Pal (45) Escape in the Fog (45) Eve Knew Her Apples (45) My Name is Julia Ross (45) Out of the Depths (45) The Unknown (46) Personality Kid (56) The Son of Rusty (47) When a Girl's Beautiful (47) The Wreck of the Hesperus (48) My Dog Rusty (48) Rusty Leads the Way (48) Rusty Saves a Life (49) LAir Hostess (49) Rusty's Birthday (49) Girls' School (50) Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang (50) Beauty on Parade (50) On the Isle of Samoa (50) The Tougher They Come (50) Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard (50) The Big Gusher (51) Chain of Circumstance (51) Corky of Gasoline Alley (51) Harem Girl (52) Okinawa (52) Man in the Dark (53) Ambush at Tomahawk Gap (53) El Alamein (53) Wyoming Renegades (54) Massacre Canyon (54) The Outlaw Stallion (54) Cell 2455, Death Row (55) Apache Ambush (55) Fury at Gunsight Pass (56) The White Squaw (56) No Time to Be Young (57) The Hard Man (57) Return to Warbow (58)

Drehbuch:
His College Wife (15) The Sea Raiders (22) The Wyoming Whirlwind (32) The Fighting Marines (35) Hitch Hike Lady (35) Doughnuts and Society (36) 

 
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