
Francis McDonald
Born August 21, 1891 · Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA
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).
Notable Appearances
Movies

The Ten Commandments

Samson and Delilah

Notorious

The Great Race

The Three Musketeers

Duel in the Sun

Bad Day at Black Rock

The Sea Hawk

Robin and the 7 Hoods

Son of Ali Baba

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

The Sea Wolf

Walk the Proud Land

North West Mounted Police

Morocco

Ten Wanted Men

The Prisoner of Shark Island

Union Pacific

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

Red Mountain

The Perils of Pauline

Valley of the Sun

Blood and Sand

The Paleface

Canyon Passage

The Stranger Wore a Gun

Rancho Notorious

The Plainsman

Idiot's Delight
TV Shows

Lassie

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Lawman

The Lone Ranger

Bat Masterson

The Texan

Trackdown

Sugarfoot

Highway Patrol

Bronco

Adventures of Superman

The Deputy

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Cisco Kid

The Gene Autry Show

Law of the Plainsman

Cavalcade of America

Mr. Lucky

The Adventures of Kit Carson

The Roy Rogers Show

Wichita Town

Science Fiction Theatre

Stories of the Century

The Adventures of Champion

General Electric Theater

My Friend Flicka
More Movies

The Soldier and the Lady

One Night in the Tropics

Beau Geste

Zorro's Black Whip

If I Were King

Strange Cargo

The Light That Failed

Woman-Wise

Mystery of the Riverboat

The Big Fisherman

The Bandits of Corsica

Till We Meet Again

The Last Train from Madrid

Sadie McKee

The Woman from Monte Carlo

St. Elmo

Battling Butler

The Nevadan

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Magnificent Doll

Faust and Marguerite Test Footage

Panhandle

Green Hell

Belle of the Yukon

Real Folks

The Buccaneer

Last Stagecoach West

Duel at Apache Wells

Woman in Hiding

Mary of the Movies

Bobbed Hair

Roll on Texas Moon

Robin Hood of El Dorado

Son of God’s Country

Rim of the Canyon

So This Is Marriage?

Daughter of the Jungle

The Carson City Kid

West Point of the Air

Tony America

Fort Massacre

The Devil's in Love

The Devil Is Driving

Night Flight

Captain Fly-by-Night

The Catman of Paris

South of the Rio Grande

California Passage

The Naked Dawn

Go Straight!

Brothers in the Saddle

The Lawyer's Secret

Night Train to Memphis

Gene Autry and the Mounties

The Gay Bride

Big Brown Eyes

Bad Men of the Border

Saddle Pals

The Buster

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

In Spite of Danger

Fort Osage

The Kansan

Captain Caution

Son of a Badman

A Girl in Every Port

Men of the Timberland

The Palace of Pleasure

Rose of the Yukon

Girl in Danger

The Legion of the Condemned

The Dead Don't Dream

The Bar-C Mystery

The Valley of Hell

The Raiders

Burn 'Em Up Barnes

The Girl from Alaska

Honor of the Mounted

Straightaway

Diamond Jim

Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles

Mr. Dolan of New York

The Wreck

Forgotten Faces

Mummy's Boys

The Kid from Kansas

Devil's Playground

Voice in the Night

The Desert's Toll

The Voice on the Wire

Dig That Uranium

Life in Hollywood No. 4

My Lady of Whims

Operator 13

The Devil's Playground

The Devil at His Elbow

Outlaws of Red River

Abandoned

The Devil's Pipeline

The Answer

Satan in Sables

His Debt

Tangier

Dangerous Paradise

Carmen

The Viking

Perils of the Secret Service

Pretty Smooth

Trilby

Pawnee

Mississippi

70,000 Witnesses

The Gray Ghost

The Love Doctor

Bar 20

Criminal Lawyer

Bad Lands

Texas Buddies

The Runaway Bride

Monte Cristo

Wyoming

In Line of Duty

Red Morning

Wild West Days

Strange Confession

Texas Masquerade

Strange Gamble

The Line-Up

Thunder Over Arizona

Nomads of the North

White Fang

Broadway Bad

A Successful Failure

Range War

The Golden Snare

Apache Chief

Buckskin Frontier

Lumberjack

The Temptress

The Bold Frontiersman

Safety in Numbers

The Final Close-Up

The Gates of Doom

Burning Up

The Invisible Informer

The Light Within

River Gang

Mystery Man

Great Stagecoach Robbery

My Pal Trigger

East of Broadway

Powder River Rustlers

Brothers

The Kentucky Colonel

The Drag Net

Bordertown Trail

The Trumpet Blows

Black Orchids

Going Up

Corpus Christi Bandits

Dangerous Venture

The Ghost Flower

The Courageous Coward

The Yankee Señor

Hidden Valley

Gun Law

The Arizona Express

Cheyenne Wildcat

The Carnation Kid

Two Gun Marshal

Terror Trail

The Confession

Love's Prisoner

Prudence on Broadway

The Northern Code

The Notorious Lady

Girl Overboard

The Woman Conquers

Parole Racket

The Gang Buster

Trooper O'Neill

The Gun Woman

Toton

Trailing the Killer




