Francis McDonald
Biography
Francis McDonald (August 22, 1891 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor whose career spanned 52 years.
McDonald's started acting professionally in stock theater with the Forepaugh Stock Company in Cincinnati. Following eight months with it, he worked one season with a stock company in Seattle, after which he performed for three seasons with a troupe in San Diego and Honolulu. He concluded his tenure in stock theater as juvenile leading man with the American Stock Company in Spokane, Washington.
By 1913 McDonald began to perform in the rapidly expanding film industry, initially working for Marion Leonard's Monopole Company in Hollywood. He was cast in over 280 films between 1913 and 1965, including The Temptress in 1926 with Greta Garbo. After he was designated "Hollywood's Prettiest Man," McDonald sought a tougher image by shaving his mustache and seeking roles of villains.
McDonald was one of Cecil B. DeMille's favorite character actors.[citation needed] DeMille gave him credited supporting roles in six of his films: The Plainsman (1936), The Buccaneer (1938), Union Pacific (1939), North West Mounted Police (1940), Samson and Delilah (1949), and The Ten Commandments (1956).
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1891-08-21
Place of birth
Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA
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Cast
Parole Racket
1937
0.00
Dig That Uranium
1955
2.70
Panhandle
1948
5.82
Satan in Sables
1925
0.00
The Gates of Doom
1917
0.00
Mr. Dolan of New York
1917
0.00
Voice in the Night
1934
0.00
The Sea Wolf
1941
7.10
The Woman Conquers
1922
0.00
The Call of the North
1921
0.00
Rancho Notorious
1952
6.50
Terror Trail
1933
0.00
The Courageous Coward
1919
0.00
Love's Prisoner
1919
5.70
The Buster
1923
0.00
The Golden Snare
1921
0.00
Mary of the Movies
1923
0.00
The Hunted Woman
1925
0.00
Life in Hollywood No. 4
1927
0.00
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
1934
5.20
The Kansan
1943
5.30
Trooper O'Neill
1922
0.00
Mystery Man
1944
4.00
Texas Masquerade
1944
0.00
Lumberjack
1944
6.00
Battling Butler
1926
6.70
Roll on Texas Moon
1946
6.00
North West Mounted Police
1940
6.30
The Nevadan
1950
5.80
Thunder Over Arizona
1956
6.00
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
6.80
Fort Massacre
1958
6.00
The Catman of Paris
1946
5.42
Monte Cristo
1922
6.40
The Bandits of Corsica
1953
5.80
The Voice on the Wire
1917
6.00
Criminal Lawyer
1937
5.90
Go Straight!
1925
0.00
Perils of the Secret Service
1917
0.00
The Naked Dawn
1955
6.10
If I Were King
1938
6.75
Buckskin Frontier
1943
6.00
Tangier
1946
6.20
Zorro's Black Whip
1944
5.20
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
1934
5.20
Duel at Apache Wells
1957
4.00
The Light That Failed
1939
6.00
The Temptress
1926
6.50
The Stranger Wore a Gun
1953
5.40
The Legion of the Condemned
1928
0.00
The Lawyer's Secret
1931
5.80
Bad Lands
1939
3.70
Mystery of the Riverboat
1944
6.00
Dangerous Paradise
1930
3.60
Abandoned
1949
6.20
Union Pacific
1939
6.50
The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932
5.00
Ten Wanted Men
1955
5.80
Straightaway
1933
0.00
Woman-Wise
1937
0.00
The Runaway Bride
1930
5.00
Burning Up
1930
3.50
Broadway Bad
1933
5.00
Rose of the Yukon
1949
0.00
The Carnation Kid
1929
0.00
Robin and the 7 Hoods
1964
6.10
Samson and Delilah
1949
6.50
Trailing the Killer
1932
4.00
Red Morning
1934
5.00
The Raiders
1952
6.20
Wild West Days
1937
0.00
Blood and Sand
1941
6.40
Puppets
1926
0.00
Daughter of the Jungle
1949
4.30
The Devil's Pipeline
1940
6.00
Robin Hood of El Dorado
1936
4.00
Safety in Numbers
1930
5.00
The Plainsman
1936
6.30
The Devil's in Love
1933
6.00
Captain Fly-by-Night
1922
4.50
Mummy's Boys
1936
4.70
West Point of the Air
1935
6.00
Devil's Playground
1937
5.75
Black Orchids
1917
1.00
Mississippi
1935
6.70
Idiot's Delight
1939
6.10
White Fang
1936
6.00
Beau Geste
1939
7.00
The Valley of Hell
1928
0.00
The Love Doctor
1917
0.00
My Lady of Whims
1925
5.10
The Palace of Pleasure
1926
0.00
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940
5.90
Two Gun Marshal
1953
0.00
Belle of the Yukon
1944
4.70
Girl in Danger
1934
0.00
A Girl in Every Port
1928
6.40
Woman in Hiding
1950
6.20
Green Hell
1940
4.00
Morocco
1930
6.34
Bad Day at Black Rock
1955
7.30
Notorious
1946
7.75
The Kid from Kansas
1941
0.00
Wyoming
1940
5.90
The Carson City Kid
1940
5.50
The Northern Code
1925
0.00
Range War
1939
0.00
Bordertown Trail
1944
0.00
Strange Gamble
1948
0.00
Powder River Rustlers
1949
0.00
The Dead Don't Dream
1948
0.00
The Three Musketeers
1948
6.70
The Sea Hawk
1940
7.09
Strange Cargo
1940
7.00
Dangerous Venture
1947
0.00
One Night in the Tropics
1940
5.60
Captain Caution
1940
5.56
Look Your Best
1923
0.00
Brothers in the Saddle
1949
5.00
California Passage
1950
4.00
The Invisible Informer
1946
6.00
Night Train to Memphis
1946
0.00
Diamond Jim
1935
6.00
Gene Autry and the Mounties
1951
6.00
The She-Devil
1916
0.00
Cheyenne Wildcat
1944
4.00
Great Stagecoach Robbery
1945
0.00
Fort Osage
1952
6.00
My Pal Trigger
1946
5.40
Saddle Pals
1947
5.00
The Ten Commandments
1956
7.77
Bad Men of the Border
1945
5.00
Corpus Christi Bandits
1945
0.00
South of the Rio Grande
1945
0.00
The Bold Frontiersman
1948
0.00
Son of God’s Country
1948
0.00
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
4.70
Valley of the Sun
1942
5.80
Rim of the Canyon
1949
4.40
Gun Law
1938
4.50
Son of a Badman
1949
0.00
Bar 20
1943
3.80
Pawnee
1957
6.30
The Gun Woman
1918
0.00
Texas Buddies
1932
6.00
The Confession
1920
5.00
The Soldier and the Lady
1937
6.50
The Gay Bride
1934
5.80
Girl Overboard
1929
0.00
Bobbed Hair
1925
0.00
Going Up
1923
0.00
The Buccaneer
1938
6.40
The Paleface
1948
6.10
The Big Fisherman
1959
4.60
Outlaws of Red River
1927
0.00
The Arizona Express
1924
5.60
The Gang Buster
1931
5.80
Night Flight
1933
5.80
River Gang
1945
0.00
Nomads of the North
1920
5.50
The Ghost Flower
1918
0.00
Operator 13
1934
5.70
The Desert's Toll
1926
0.00
Men of the Timberland
1941
0.00
The Notorious Lady
1927
7.00
The Girl from Alaska
1942
6.00
70,000 Witnesses
1932
4.80
Trilby
1923
0.00
Puppets of Fate
1921
0.00
Magnificent Doll
1946
5.90
Strange Confession
1945
6.80
The Devil's Playground
1946
7.00
Walk the Proud Land
1956
6.10
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957
6.30
Last Stagecoach West
1957
4.30
In Spite of Danger
1935
1.00
The Yankee Señor
1926
0.00
The Drag Net
1928
6.00
The Devil at His Elbow
1916
0.00
Duel in the Sun
1946
6.30
Apache Chief
1949
3.67
So This Is Marriage?
1924
0.00
The Trumpet Blows
1934
0.00
Carmen
1913
0.00
Big Brown Eyes
1936
6.30
The Perils of Pauline
1947
6.20
Red Mountain
1951
6.40
Toton
1919
0.00
Prudence on Broadway
1919
0.00
Hidden Valley
1932
6.00
In Line of Duty
1931
0.00
Honor of the Mounted
1932
0.00
A Successful Failure
1934
2.50
Brothers
1930
0.00
Canyon Passage
1946
6.60
Screen Tests for Faust
1923
0.00
Kickin' the Crown Around
1933
6.50
The Light Within
1918
0.00
Sadie McKee
1934
7.00
The Express Messenger
1915
0.00
The Last Train from Madrid
1937
4.70