Jack McDonald

Jack McDonald

Born: September 17, 1880
Died: June 19, 1941
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Jack McDonald...

The Ship from Shanghai
Title: The Ship from Shanghai
Character: Reid
Released: January 31, 1930
Type: Movie
On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.
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The Girl in the Show
Title: The Girl in the Show
Character: Ernest Beaumont
Released: August 30, 1929
Type: Movie
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Character: Windy
Released: July 27, 1929
Type: Movie
This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel
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The Phantom City
Title: The Phantom City
Character: Simon
Released: December 27, 1928
Type: Movie
A weird letter tells our heroes to go to a ghost town which has an abandoned mine. There they contend with bad guys looking for hidden gold. They are aided by a mysterious Phantom.
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The Whip
Title: The Whip
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for racing at Ascot.
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13 Washington Square
Title: 13 Washington Square
Character: Mayfair
Released: January 28, 1928
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar girl.
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The Broken Gate
Title: The Broken Gate
Character: Sheriff Dan Cummins
Released: February 15, 1927
Type: Movie
In the small farming community of Spring Valley, young Aurora Lane has caused a scandal by bearing a son by townsman Lucius Henderson, who refuses to marry her or even admit that he's the father. Shunned as a "sinful" woman by most of the town, she turns over her son, Don, to be raised by Miss Julia, the town librarian, who tells the boy that she's his "aunt". Don grows up and goes to college, and when he comes back home the town gossips begin a rumor-mongering campaign. When the town policeman tries to drive Aurora out of town he is found murdered, and Don is arrested for the crime.
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The Flame of the Yukon
Title: The Flame of the Yukon
Character: Sour Dough Joe
Released: August 30, 1926
Type: Movie
George Fowler, a young man from the states, arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon girl, known only as "The Flame," to fleece him. When she learns he doesn't have any money she gets him a job at a café. News of a gold strike in the Ophir area comes, and George sets out, with a dog team supplied by Flame. Meanwhile a woman comes to town, says she is Mrs. Fowler and is looking for her husband.
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Don Q Son of Zorro
Title: Don Q Son of Zorro
Character: General de Muro
Released: June 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the young upstart for murder, Don Cesar fakes his own death and retreats to the crumbling ruins of the family castle he plots his vengeance.
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The Trail Rider
Title: The Trail Rider
Character: Dee Winch
Released: February 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Story of a cowboy who saves an old cobbler from being abused by a nasty banker. The banker does not take kindly to Hartwell's interfering and orders his henchman to kill the upstart.
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Smouldering Fires
Title: Smouldering Fires
Character: Member of the Committee
Released: January 18, 1925
Type: Movie
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
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Greed
Title: Greed
Character: Placer County Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1924
Type: Movie
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
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Against All Odds
Title: Against All Odds
Character: Warner's Uncle
Released: July 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Chick Newton's friend, Bill Warner, is arrested for murdering his uncle. However, Bill has been framed by a blackmailer who has plotted with the uncle to have him disappear in order to avoid creditors and collect insurance. Newton unmasks Tom Curtis as the culprit and rescues Warner from a hanging.
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The Circus Cowboy
Title: The Circus Cowboy
Character: Ezra Bagley
Released: May 11, 1924
Type: Movie
After a 2-year absence, Buck Saxon returns home to find his girl, Norma, married to the town's wealthiest citizen, Ezra Bagley, yet professing to love Buck. Unjustly accused of attempting to murder Bagley, he escapes and joins a circus, where he falls in love with Bird, a tightrope walker.
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Cameo Kirby
Title: Cameo Kirby
Character: Larkin Bunce
Released: October 20, 1923
Type: Movie
Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man's daughter.
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While Paris Sleeps
Title: While Paris Sleeps
Released: January 21, 1923
Type: Movie
Lon Chaney plays a Parisian sculptor who falls in love with his model (Mildred Manning). She, however, cares nothing for him. The film is considered lost.
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The World's a Stage
Title: The World's a Stage
Character: Property Man
Released: November 1, 1922
Type: Movie
While playing Juliet in a barnstorming Shakespearean troupe, Jo Bishop is discovered by a motion picture director and brought to Hollywood. She becomes a star and quickly marries Wallace Foster. Another man, John Brand, also loves her, but is satisfied to remain her friend.
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Lorna Doone
Title: Lorna Doone
Character: 'Counsellor' Doone
Released: October 1, 1922
Type: Movie
In 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love.
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Western Speed
Title: Western Speed
Character: Brad Usher
Released: April 23, 1922
Type: Movie
Lorimer is wanted for a crime he didn't commit, and "Red" has his hands full keeping the old man safe from the sheriff and his posse.
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Ladies Must Live
Title: Ladies Must Live
Character: The Butler
Released: October 29, 1921
Type: Movie
A societal romance drama based on an Alice Duer Miller novel.
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The Big Punch
Title: The Big Punch
Character: Friend of Jed's
Released: February 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Buck, who is preparing to enter a theological seminary, aids his brother and some friends who are fleeing from justice, and thus implicated he is sent to prison for 2 years. There he meets again Hope Standish, a Salvation Army girl who had interested him. Returning home, he meets the old district circuit rider and promises to continue the circuit rider's work when he dies. The brother escapes from prison and is converted by Buck, who falls in love with Hope.
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The Bait
Title: The Bait
Character: Bennett Barton - The Fisherman
Released: January 2, 1921
Type: Movie
Crook Bennett Barton uses pretty Joan Granger as bait to blackmail millionaire John Warren.
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The Last of the Mohicans
Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Character: Tamenund
Released: November 21, 1920
Type: Movie
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye.
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The Great Redeemer
Title: The Great Redeemer
Character: The Sheirff
Released: October 24, 1920
Type: Movie
A murderer and a thief, imprisoned together, find their lives changed forever when the thief's drawing of Christ's crucifixion on the cell wall comes to life.
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The White Circle
Title: The White Circle
Character: Gregorio
Released: August 22, 1920
Type: Movie
Having endangered his life by foolishly gambling away funds entrusted to him by the Carbonari, an Italian secret society, London banker Bernard Huddlestone appeals to Northmour, an adventurer, for protection. Northmour takes Huddlestone and his daughter Clara to his castle in Scotland, offering them safety in return for Clara's hand in marriage. There Clara encounters Frank Cassilis, an old adversary of Northmour's, and falls in love. Trouble brews between the two men, but when the Carbonari discovers Huddlestone's hiding place and storms the castle, the fugitives band together to fight the avengers. Coming to the realization that only his sacrifice will appease the attackers, Huddlestone steps out and meets his death. Northmour, deciding that married life would prove too monotonous, gives up his claim on Clara to Cassilis.
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Better Times
Title: Better Times
Character: Ezra Scroggs
Released: July 13, 1919
Type: Movie
Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides to do something about it.
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The Girl of My Dreams
Title: The Girl of My Dreams
Character: George Bassett
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
A girl nicknamed "The Weed" lives with her foster parents in their mountain cabin and frequently visits a nearby health resort to sell milk and eggs. On one of her excursions, she befriends a cantankerous old millionaire, George Bassett, who later bequeaths to her his entire estate. Ralph Long's car plunges down an embankment, and he is dragged from the wreckage and looked after by the Weed, who soon captivates him with her charm and ingenuousness. While he is in the hospital, however, the lecherous Kenneth Stewart snaps a photo of the girl swimming in the nude in a mountain pool and hangs an enlargement of it in his club.
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Her Country First
Title: Her Country First
Character: Farmer
Released: September 22, 1918
Type: Movie
During World War I, young Dorothy Grant comes home from finishing school and informs her parents that she is going to contribute to the war effort by organizing a "Girls Aviation Corps". She has uniforms made and hires a veteran of the Spanish-American War to teach her "cadets" military routines and drills. Her father owns a munitions factory and is always telling her to be on the lookout for spies. She convinces herself that the family butler, Williams, is a spy because he cuts his grapefruit in an odd way. It turns out that Williams isn't a spy but the people whom Dorothy least suspects are in fact spies, and they discover that Dorothy knows the password to get into the factory after hours.
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Mile-a-Minute Kendall
Title: Mile-a-Minute Kendall
Character: Jack Evans
Released: May 13, 1918
Type: Movie
Young Kendall struggles for acceptance in the eyes of his wealthy father, who sees him only as a layabout.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Title: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Character: Reverend Jonathan Smellie
Released: September 22, 1917
Type: Movie
Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated like a prisoner by her strict Aunt, yet she gamely does her best to get an education. When spoiled girls at school mock the spirited Rebecca as "missy poor-house," she soon makes them come to eat their words. Despite many difficulties, Rebecca manages to help the less fortunate and spread joy in Riverboro, dreaming that her reward will come when she is "all growed up." This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion.
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The Eyes of the World
Title: The Eyes of the World
Character: Edward Taine, Materialism
Released: January 27, 1917
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright, The Eyes of the World was told almost exclusively via flashbacks. The basic plotline concerns a pretty violinist, the handsome artist who falls in love with her, and the double-dyed villain who hopes to seduce the girl.
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The Love Thief
Title: The Love Thief
Character: Charles Rogers
Released: December 17, 1916
Type: Movie
The Love Thief was later reissued as The She Tiger
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The Turquoise Mine Conspiracy
Title: The Turquoise Mine Conspiracy
Character: Sidewinder Steve
Released: August 16, 1916
Type: Movie
"Sidewinder Steve" returns to civilization to find that his ore specimens show he has discovered a turquoise mine. He wires his friend, Ace Brent, the capitalist, who has a half-interest in his discoveries, to furnish him with money to make the trip back across the desert to officially stake his claim. But "Lonney" Smith, telegraph operator at the town and secret spy for The Syndicate, Brent's rivals, informs his employers of the new "strike," and they dispatch their agent Meyers to thwart Brent. The latter, recovering from injuries received in a previous encounter with sheep herders, consents to allow Barbara to handle the affair. Her admirer, John Wallace, follows her to the desert town, fearing for her safety. The action then develops into a thrilling three-cornered race across the desert between Barbara and John, Lonney and Meyers, and a gang of local adventurers headed by "Dry Wash" Sexton, proprietor of the "saloon and hotel."
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The Girl from Frisco
Title: The Girl from Frisco
Character: Sidewinder Steve
Released: August 9, 1916
Type: Movie
A series of 25 2-reel Western thrillers in which a cowgirl aids the cause of justice and humanity in the Old West, often aided by her fiancé and her rancher father. Each episode tells a complete story in itself.
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A Just Punishment
Title: A Just Punishment
Character: Preston - the Rich Uncle
Released: September 23, 1914
Type: Movie
Uncle Preston, a financial "wizard," discovers that his nephew, Bob Preston, is a rogue, a gambler and a swindler, who is promoting a mythical mining property, the "Battle Axe." He decides to teach his nephew a lesson.
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When the West Was Young
Title: When the West Was Young
Character: Settler
Released: September 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Ned Halton and his young bride, Nellie, depart from the east in a prairie schooner to seek a home in the western wilds.
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Chip of the Flying U
Title: Chip of the Flying U
Character: Dunk
Released: August 29, 1914
Type: Movie
A copy of this Tom Mix western is preserved incomplete in the Library of Congress collection.
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Shotgun Jones
Title: Shotgun Jones
Character: B.T. Daly
Released: April 27, 1914
Type: Movie
Thomas Lattier is a well-to-do westerner in the cattle business. One fine day he sells a herd of cattle, receiving for it cash payment in bills of large denomination. He proceeds to town alone to deposit it in his bank. Two bad men, Bretall and Hayes, have learned of the deal and trail him with a view to securing the money.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Slap Jack
Released: April 10, 1914
Type: Movie
The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with William Farnum as Roy Glennister, Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte, and Tom Santschi as Alex McNamara. The film culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between Glennister and McNamara. It was adapted to screen by Lanier Bartlett from the Rex Beach novel of the same name.
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Until We Three Meet Again
Title: Until We Three Meet Again
Released: March 7, 1913
Type: Movie
As James Abbott, Frank Arthur and Martin Wynne, college chums, are bidding farewell to one another at the commencement ball, James discovers that May Scott, whom he loves, favors Frank. He conceals his disappointment and just before they part, he suggests that each man write on a slip of paper, to be put in the back of his watch, the words "Until we three meet again, Thursday, June 12th, ten years from today."