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Jack McDonald is a Actor American born on 17 september 1880 at San Francisco (USA)
Jack McDonald (September 17, 1880 – 1962) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 71 films between 1912 and 1930. He was born in San Francisco, California.
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Filmography of Jack McDonald (37 films)
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Show Boat (1929)
, 2h9Directed by Harry A. Pollard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy, Otis Harlan, Stepin Fetchit, Alma Rubens
Roles Windy
Rating60%
The eighteen-year-old Magnolia meets, falls in love with, and elopes with riverboat gambler Gaylord Ravenal.
The Girl in the Show (1929)
, 1h22Directed by Edgar Selwyn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians
Actors Bessie Love, Raymond Hackett, Edward J. Nugent, Jed Prouty, Jack McDonald, Ford Sterling
Roles Ernest Beaumont
Rating56%
A traveling Tom show is stranded in Kansas when their manager steals what meager funds they have. Hattie Hartley (Love), who plays Eva in the production, decides to marry the local undertaker, so that he will fund the troupe and pay for her younger sister's schooling. On the day of the wedding, the troupe is booked for a performance at the last minute. Hattie refuses to get married so that she can play the role of Eva, an act which reunites her with her true love, a member of their troupe.
The Flame of the Yukon (1926)
Directed by George Melford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Seena Owen, Matthew Betz, Jack McDonald, Winifred Greenwood
Roles Sour Dough Joe
Rating55%
Don Q Son of Zorro (1925)
, 1h51Directed by Donald Crisp, Fred Niblo
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Superhero films, Films about disabilities, Personne sourde ou muette, Zorro
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor, Jack McDonald, Donald Crisp, Warner Oland, Jean Hersholt
Roles General de Muro
Rating68%
Don Diego de la Vega (Zorro)'s son, Cesar (Douglas Fairbanks), is in Spain finishing his education. While Cesar is showing off to friends his remarkable prowess with the whip, he accidentally clips off the feather shako on the hat of Don Sebastian (Donald Crisp) of the Palace Guard. Although Cesar apologizes immediately, Sebastian is unforgiving. Their duel is interrupted by a runaway bull. Trapped on the ground with his sword belt tangled in his boot, certain to be gored by the bull, Sebastian is saved at the last minute by Cesar. This further infuriates him. The action is observed by Queen Isabella (Stella De Lanti) and her guest, Austrian Archduke Paul (Warner Oland); she requests Cesar's company immediately. Another friend of Cesar, Don Fabrique Borusta (Jean Hersholt), offers to bring him to Her Majesty.
Smouldering Fires (1925)
, 1h20Directed by Charles Dorian, Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Laura La Plante, Malcolm McGregor, Tully Marshall, Wanda Hawley, Pauline Frederick, Helen Lynch
Roles Member of the Committee
Rating68%
At 40, businesswoman Jane Vale (Pauline Frederick) falls in love with a much younger Robert Elliott (Malcolm McGregor), a employee from her factory. She promotes him to the position of her private secretary, and out of gratitude and to defend her reputation from rumors, he asks her to marry him. However, before the marriage can take place, Jane's younger sister Dorothy (Laura La Plante) returns home from college and Robert and Dorothy fall in love. Lacking the courage to confess to Jane of his love for her sister, Robert marries Jane. Robert finds that the difference in ages between him and Jane are creating complications. When Jane realizes that Robert, though diligently attentive as a husband, is actually in love with her sister, she pretends that she has fallen out of love with him and seeks a divorce.
The Trail Rider (1925)
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Buck Jones, Carl Stockdale, Jack McDonald, George Berrell, Will Walling, Gary Cooper
Roles Dee Winch
Rating58%
Tex Hartwell (Buck Jones) rescues an old cobbler from the physical assault of corrupt banker Jim Mackey (Carl Stockdale). When Mackey orders his hired guns to kill Tex, the stranger outdraws them. Rancher Dee Winch (Jack McDonald) is impressed with Tex's fast draw and hires him as a trail rider, tasked with keeping diseased cattle off of his land.
Greed (1924)
, 2h20Directed by Erich von Stroheim
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Zasu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt, Jack Curtis, Tempe Pigott, Chester Conklin
Roles Placer County Sheriff (uncredited)
Rating79%
"I never truckled, I never took off the hat to fashion and held it out for pennies. By God, I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth; I knew it for the truth then and I know it for the truth now."
The Circus Cowboy (1924)
, 50minutesDirected by William A. Wellman
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Buck Jones, Marian Nixon, Jack McDonald, Marguerite Clayton
Roles Ezra Bagley
Rating39%
Cameo Kirby (1923)
, 1h10Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors John Gilbert, Gertrude Olmstead, Alan Hale, W. E. Lawrence, Richard Tucker, Phillips Smalley
Roles Larkin Bunce
Rating57%
Un joueur de carte professionnel s'oppose à un colonel tricheur dans le Sud...
While Paris Sleeps (1923)
, 1hDirected by Maurice Tourneur, Edmund Mortimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Hardee Kirkland, Jack McDonald, J. Farrell MacDonald
Roles le père Marionette
Rating68%
Henri Santados (Lon Chaney) is sculptor living in Paris. He's in love with his model, Bebe Larvache (Mildred Manning), who cares nothing for him. She meets a wealthy American, Dennis O'Keefe (John Gilbert), and they grow affectionate. A jealous Santados teams up with Father Marionette (Jack F. MacDonald), a wax museum owner, to get rid of O'Keefe. Meanwhile, O'Keefe's father (Hardee Kirkland), who objects to the relationship, convinces Larvache to leave O'Keefe for his own good. She requests at have one final night with Dennis at the Mardi Gras festival. O'Keefe goes to pick Larvache up at the studio, but Santados tricks her into a compromising position, which makes O'Keefe think she's cheating. Heartbroken, he leaves, and is captured by Marionette, who tortures him in the wax museum. Marionette calls Santados, and Larvache hears O'Keefe over the phone. A friend of O'Keefe, Georges Morier, (J.
Main Street (1923)
, 1h30Directed by Harry Beaumont
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Alan Hale, Harry Myers, Louise Fazenda, Noah Beery Sr.
Roles Nat Hicks
Rating24%
Lorna Doone (1922)
, 1h10Directed by Maurice Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Madge Bellamy, John Bowers, Mae Giraci, Jack McDonald, Gertrude Astor, Donald MacDonald
Roles 'Counsellor' Doone
Rating65%
Dans le Devon au XVII siècle. Lorna est une jeune fille de bonne noblesse qui rencontre un jeune paysan, John Ridd, peu avant d'être kidnappée par les Doone, une bande de bandits redoutables menée par Sir Ensor. Sa présence attise les convoitises, mais Sir Ensor la protège. Des années plus tard, un membre de la bande, Carver, demande à Lorna de devenir sa femme. Sir Ensor, miné par la maladie, est impuissant pour faire barrage à ce mariage, dont Lorna ne veut pas, mais John, qui a retrouvé Lorna par hasard, la sauve de ce mauvais pas.
The Bait (1921)
, 50minutesDirected by Maurice Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Hope Hampton, Jack McDonald, Joseph Singleton
Roles Bennett Barton - The Fisherman
Based upon a summary in a film publication, Joan Grainger (Hampton) is about to be "sent up" to prison after being falsely accused of stealing when she is kidnapped by Bennett Barton (McDonald), mastermind of a band of crooks of which Simpson (Singleton) is a member. Joan accepts Bennett's assistance when he sends her to Europe and later joins her. They live in luxury when she meets John Warren (Woodward), a wealthy American. Joan receives her first jar of suspicion when Bennett introduces her to John as being Bennett's daughter. Bennett later tells her the plan is for her to marry John so that they will have access to the money. The girl rebels but Bennett threatens to send her back to prison or, still worse, expose her to John, with whom she has now fallen in love. The entire party return to the United States where Bennett forces Joan to accept John's proposal of marriage. In the meantime some members of Bennett's gang have double-crossed him and tell Joan of the original theft frame-up. A signed confession is secured from the girl that did the framing. In the effort to secure the confession, Bennett is killed by Simpson, who had been after the "goods" on Bennett. John is willing to have Joan despite all of this and they are happy.
The Big Punch (1921)
, 50minutesDirected by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Melodrama, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Buck Jones, Barbara Bedford, Jack Curtis, George Siegmann, Jack McDonald, Jennie Lee
Roles Friend of Jed's
Rating46%
As summarized in a film publication, Buck (Jones) consents to study for the ministry, and before leaving attempts to convince his worthless brother Jed (Curtis) to sober up and stay home with their mother (Lee) during Buck's absence. On the eve of his leaving Buck is implicated in a murder committed by Jed and his gang. Buck serves two years and upon his release completes his study for the ministry before returning home. People ridicule him and laugh at the "jailbird minister," as they call him. During one of his services, his brother and two pals enter the church to hide from the prison officials who are after them. Buck shields them, and they later come to his aid when Flash McGraw (Siegmann), the owner of a dance hall, has lured a Salvation Army girl (Bedford) to his room, and Buck has to fight the whole gang. A girl who believes McGraw is "throwing her over" reveals that McGraw "framed" the murder charge on Jed and his pals. This gives the men their freedom and clears Buck, leaving him free to marry the Salvation Army girl.
Ladies Must Live (1921)
, 1h20Directed by George Loane Tucker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Betty Compson, Mahlon Hamilton, Robert Ellis, Leatrice Joy, John Gilbert, Hardee Kirkland
Roles The Butler
Rating67%