Edmund MacDonald

Edmund MacDonald

Born: May 7, 1908
Died: September 2, 1951
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Movies for Edmund MacDonald...

Red Canyon
Title: Red Canyon
Character: Farlane
Released: April 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A former outlaw goes straight and is determined to catch and tame a wild stallion. Western.
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Black Eagle
Title: Black Eagle
Character: Si
Released: September 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Black Eagle is based on The Passing of Black Eagle, a short story by O. Henry. William Bishop stars as Jason Bond, who stays out of trouble by the simple expedient of avoiding other people. Unfortunately, the plot dictates that Bond must come into contact with several characters, all of whom end up fleecing our hero in one way or another. Even so, Jason manages to enjoy a brief romance with pretty Ginny Long (Virginia Patton) before returning to his life of carefree vagabondage. A very minor film, The Black Eagle makes the most of its excellent supporting cast, including Gordon Jones, Trevor Bardette, Will Wright and stuntman extraordinaire Richard Talmadge.
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That Lady in Ermine
Title: That Lady in Ermine
Released: August 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invader...
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Blondie's Anniversary
Title: Blondie's Anniversary
Character: Bob Burley
Released: December 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a surprise wedding gift, but the truth is that Dagwood has been guarding the watch on behalf of a client who bought the gift for his own wife, which soon leads to trouble with his boss, a loan shark, and crooked building contractors.
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Shoot to Kill
Title: Shoot to Kill
Character: Lawrence Dale (as Edmond MacDonald)
Released: March 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A gritty crime story involving a newspaper man and crooked politicians.
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The Mysterious Mr. M
Title: The Mysterious Mr. M
Character: Anthony Waldron
Released: July 23, 1946
Type: Movie
An evil scientist known as "Mr. M." uses a drug he has developed called "hypnotreme" to help steal submarine equipment. Federal agent Grant Farrell is dispatched to find the mysterious villain and stop his nefarious plans.
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They Made Me a Killer
Title: They Made Me a Killer
Character: Jack Conley aka Chance
Released: May 3, 1946
Type: Movie
A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.
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Detour
Title: Detour
Character: Charles Haskell Jr.
Released: November 30, 1945
Type: Movie
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
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Hold That Blonde!
Title: Hold That Blonde!
Character: Slasher
Released: November 23, 1945
Type: Movie
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace. Complications include two scantily attired individuals, one of them drunk, clinging to the cornice of a skyscraper and a large band of crooks in quest of the precious jewels.
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The Lady Confesses
Title: The Lady Confesses
Character: Lucky Brandon
Released: May 16, 1945
Type: Movie
An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 years of disappearance -- thought to be dead, to prevent her husband from marrying his new love until someone kills her.
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Sailor's Holiday
Title: Sailor's Holiday
Character: Fred Baxter
Released: February 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women.
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Timber Queen
Title: Timber Queen
Character: Joe Birsdell
Released: January 13, 1944
Type: Movie
Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a huge shipment of lumber. Russ and his friend Squirrel volunteer to help her cut the timber for the shipment, along with her friends Smacksie Golden and his girlfriend Lil Boggs, who are not used to doing physical labor. Russ pilots the plane to deliver the lumber before the company falls to a slimy businessman.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: Lt. LeBlanc
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Hangmen Also Die!
Title: Hangmen Also Die!
Character: Dr. Pillar
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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The Mantrap
Title: The Mantrap
Character: Assistant District Attorney Knox
Released: April 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. While Stephenson is being honoured for his past successes, he senses modern detectives, particularly the current District Attorney, look at him and his methods as outdated. This spurs the old man out of retirement to prove himself to the know-it-all modern detectives.
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Title: Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Character: Detective Lt. Grogan
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
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Hi'ya, Chum
Title: Hi'ya, Chum
Character: Terry Barton
Released: February 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.
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Madame Spy
Title: Madame Spy
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Bill Drake
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
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Heart of the Golden West
Title: Heart of the Golden West
Character: Ross Lambert
Released: November 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.
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To the Shores of Tripoli
Title: To the Shores of Tripoli
Character: Butch Burke
Released: November 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.
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Who Done It?
Title: Who Done It?
Character: 'Murder at Midnight' Announcer
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
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Flying Tigers
Title: Flying Tigers
Character: Blackie Bales
Released: October 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.
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Call of the Canyon
Title: Call of the Canyon
Character: Thomas McCoy
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
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Timber!
Title: Timber!
Character: Pierre Lacour
Released: August 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Two FBI agents are sent to investigate sabotage at a lumber camp.
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Whispering Ghosts
Title: Whispering Ghosts
Character: Jerry Gilpin
Released: May 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the decade-old murder of a sea captain.
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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Title: The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Character: Det. Capt. Bill Hurd
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
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Castle in the Desert
Title: Castle in the Desert
Character: Walter Hartford
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...
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Great Guns
Title: Great Guns
Character: Hippo
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.
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Texas
Title: Texas
Character: Comstock
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
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Trail of the Vigilantes
Title: Trail of the Vigilantes
Character: Ed Wheeler
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
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The Gay Caballero
Title: The Gay Caballero
Character: Joe Turner
Released: October 4, 1940
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have attempted to steal Susan Wetherby's land.
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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Elder
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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Manhattan Heartbeat
Title: Manhattan Heartbeat
Character: Spike
Released: July 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.
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Sailor's Lady
Title: Sailor's Lady
Character: Barnacle
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
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Black Friday
Title: Black Friday
Character: Frank Miller
Released: February 29, 1940
Type: Movie
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
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The Invisible Man Returns
Title: The Invisible Man Returns
Character: Miner at Radcliffe Colliery (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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Destry Rides Again
Title: Destry Rides Again
Character: Rockwell (as Edmund Macdonald)
Released: November 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.
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Coast Guard
Title: Coast Guard
Character: Lt. Thompson
Released: August 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: First Cop (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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Prison Break
Title: Prison Break
Character: Chris Nelson, Maria's Bridegroom
Released: July 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for early parole. He realizes, however, that his movements will be limited, and he will be unable to join and wed his beloved. The only solution is to escape and hunt down the real killer, himself.
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Enlighten Thy Daughter
Title: Enlighten Thy Daughter
Character: Gerald Winthrop
Released: January 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A remake of the 1917 picture of the same name. Ruth, the offspring of Stevens' hypocritical brother, is neglected by her parents in matters of sex education; as consequence, she trods the primrose path, ending up pregnant, then dead.