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David MacDonald is a Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Assistant Director and Assistant Camera British born on 9 may 1904

David MacDonald

David MacDonald
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 9 may 1904
Death 22 june 1983 (at 79 years)

David MacDonald (9 mai 1904, Helensburgh - 22 juin 1983, Londres) est un réalisateur, scénariste et producteur écossais. Il est surtout connu pour son film The Brothers.

Best films

Desert Victory
Desert Victory
(1943)
(Director) Cleopatra
Cleopatra
(1934)
(Assistant Director)

Usually with

Sydney Box
Sydney Box
(3 films)
Barry K. Barnes
Barry K. Barnes
(5 films)
Muriel Box
Muriel Box
(3 films)
Garry Marsh
Garry Marsh
(4 films)
John Laurie
John Laurie
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of David MacDonald (38 films)

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Actor

Rulers of the Sea
Rulers of the Sea (1939)
, 1h36
Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Margaret Lockwood, George Bancroft, Montagu Love, Alan Ladd, Lawrence Grant
Roles Clerk (Uncredited)
Rating63% 3.184533.184533.184533.184533.18453
La lutte d'un homme pour construire un bateau à vapeur pour lui faire traverser l'Atlantique malgré tous les revers, et sa victoire contre un voilier d'élite au début du 19e siècle.

Director

The Golden Rabbit
The Golden Rabbit (1962)

Directed by David MacDonald
Actors Timothy Bateson, Willoughby Wittenham Rees Goddard, John Sharp

A bank clerk attempts to get rich by manufacturing gold.
The Moonraker
The Moonraker (1958)
, 1h22
Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Marius Goring, Peter Arne, Clive Morton, Gary Raymond
Rating59% 2.9554452.9554452.9554452.9554452.955445
After the Battle of Worcester at the end of the Second English Civil War, the main aim of General Oliver Cromwell (John Le Mesurier) is to capture Charles Stuart (Gary Raymond), son of the executed Charles I. However, the dashing Royalist hero nicknamed "the Moonraker" (George Baker) prepares to smuggle him to safety in France, under the noses of Cromwell's soldiers. According to the story, the hero is called "the Moonraker" after the smuggler term, Moonrakers, sometimes claimed to hide contraband in the village pond and to rake it out by moonlight.
Small Hotel
Small Hotel (1957)
, 59minutes
Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Gordon Harker, John Loder, Marie Lohr, Janet Munro, Irene Handl, Billie Whitelaw
Rating69% 3.473553.473553.473553.473553.47355
A headwaiter in a country hotel works various scams after he is told that he is to be replaced by a young woman.
Devil Girl from Mars
Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
, 1h16
Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Films about extraterrestrial life, Martiens, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films
Actors Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Adrienne Corri, Hazel Court, Joseph Tomelty, John Laurie
Rating49% 2.458552.458552.458552.458552.45855
Nyah, a female alien commander from Mars, dressed in shiny black vinyl, heads for London in her flying saucer. She is part of the advanced alien team that is looking for Earth men to replace the dying male population on her world. Because of damage to her saucer, caused by entering Earth's atmosphere and then colliding with an aircraft, she is forced to land her damaged flying saucer in the remote Scottish moors, near a local village. She is armed with a raygun that can paralyze or kill, and she also has a tall, menacing robot named Chani.
Operation Malaya
Operation Malaya (1953)
, 1h17
Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events
Actors Chips Rafferty, John Slater
Rating27% 1.3786251.3786251.3786251.3786251.378625
Scenes from the action of English troops against Communists in Malaya, focusing around the tracking down of a group of communist who killed a rubber planter. Scenes included:
Fortune in Diamonds
Fortune in Diamonds (1951)
, 1h26
Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Jack Hawkins, Dennis Price, Peter Hammond, Grégoire Aslan, Charles Paton, Siobhán McKenna
Rating55% 2.771022.771022.771022.771022.77102
As the Boer War finalizes a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper.
Cairo Road
Cairo Road (1950)
, 1h35
Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Laurence Harvey, Eric Portman, Maria Mauban, Grégoire Aslan, Karel Štěpánek, John Bailey
Rating54% 2.718792.718792.718792.718792.71879
A team of Egyptian anti-narcotic agents try to prevent shipments of drugs crossing the southern Egyptian border. The film takes its name from the Cairo Road.
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (1949)
, 1h39
Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Kathleen Ryan, James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond
Rating59% 2.9993152.9993152.9993152.9993152.999315
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.