Francis McDonald
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).
KNOWN FOR
CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Trackdown
6.4
Science Fiction Theatre
6.2
Mr. Lucky
6.4
Perry Mason
7.7
General Electric Theater
6.25
Lassie
6.1
The Adventures of Champion
5.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
7.4
The Adventures of Champion
5.3
The Virginian
6.5
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
6.579
The Gene Autry Show
4.2
Adventures of Superman
6.7
Bronco
5.2
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
4.5
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
4.5
The Deputy
6.2
Wanted: Dead or Alive
6.894
Lawman
5.6
Sugarfoot
4.8
Bat Masterson
6.1
Law of the Plainsman
6
The Texan
5.5
Wichita Town
4.2
Cavalcade of America
3.5
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
The Roy Rogers Show
6.4
The Lone Ranger
6.7
The Adventures of Kit Carson
5.3
My Friend Flicka
5.7
Maverick
6.8
Sugarfoot
4.8
The Virginian
6.5
Wanted: Dead or Alive
6.894
Perry Mason
7.7
Perry Mason
7.7
Highway Patrol
5.8
Stories of the Century
5.7
Movies
Parole Racket
0
Dig That Uranium
2.7
Panhandle
5.818
Satan in Sables
0
The Gates of Doom
0
Mr. Dolan of New York
0
Voice in the Night
0
The Sea Wolf
7.1
The Woman Conquers
0
The Call of the North
0
Rancho Notorious
6.5
Terror Trail
0
The Courageous Coward
0
Love's Prisoner
5.7
The Buster
0
The Golden Snare
0
Mary of the Movies
0
The Hunted Woman
0
Life in Hollywood No. 4
0
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
5.2
The Kansan
5.3
Trooper O'Neill
0
Mystery Man
4
Texas Masquerade
0
Lumberjack
6
Battling Butler
6.7
Roll on Texas Moon
6
North West Mounted Police
6.3
The Nevadan
5.8
Thunder Over Arizona
6
The Prisoner of Shark Island
6.8
Fort Massacre
6
The Catman of Paris
5.417
Monte Cristo
6.4
The Bandits of Corsica
5.8
The Voice on the Wire
6
Criminal Lawyer
5.9
Go Straight!
0
Perils of the Secret Service
0
The Naked Dawn
6.1
If I Were King
6.75
Buckskin Frontier
6
Tangier
6.2
Zorro's Black Whip
5.2
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
5.2
Duel at Apache Wells
4
The Light That Failed
6
The Temptress
6.5
The Stranger Wore a Gun
5.4
The Legion of the Condemned
0
The Lawyer's Secret
5.8
Bad Lands
3.7
Mystery of the Riverboat
6
Dangerous Paradise
3.6
Abandoned
6.2
Union Pacific
6.5
The Woman from Monte Carlo
5
Ten Wanted Men
5.8
Straightaway
0
Woman-Wise
0
The Runaway Bride
5
Burning Up
3.5
Broadway Bad
5
Rose of the Yukon
0
The Carnation Kid
0
Robin and the 7 Hoods
6.1
Samson and Delilah
6.511
Trailing the Killer
4
Red Morning
5
The Raiders
6.2
Wild West Days
0
Blood and Sand
6.4
Puppets
0
Daughter of the Jungle
4.3
The Devil's Pipeline
6
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
1
Robin Hood of El Dorado
4
Safety in Numbers
5
The Plainsman
6.3
The Devil's in Love
6
Captain Fly-by-Night
4.5
Mummy's Boys
4.7
West Point of the Air
6
Devil's Playground
5.75
Black Orchids
1
Mississippi
6.7
Idiot's Delight
6.1
White Fang
6
Beau Geste
6.971
The Valley of Hell
0
The Love Doctor
0
My Lady of Whims
5.1
The Palace of Pleasure
0
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
5.9
Two Gun Marshal
0
Belle of the Yukon
4.7
Girl in Danger
0
A Girl in Every Port
6.381
Woman in Hiding
6.2
Green Hell
4
Morocco
6.339
Bad Day at Black Rock
7.299
Notorious
7.748
The Kid from Kansas
0
Wyoming
5.9
The Carson City Kid
5.5
The Northern Code
0
Range War
0
Bordertown Trail
0
Strange Gamble
0
Powder River Rustlers
0
The Dead Don't Dream
0
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
7.074
The Three Musketeers
6.7
The Sea Hawk
7.093
Strange Cargo
7
Dangerous Venture
0
One Night in the Tropics
5.6
Captain Caution
5.556
Look Your Best
0
Brothers in the Saddle
5
California Passage
4
The Invisible Informer
6
Night Train to Memphis
0
Diamond Jim
6
Gene Autry and the Mounties
6
The She-Devil
0
Cheyenne Wildcat
4
Great Stagecoach Robbery
0
Fort Osage
6
My Pal Trigger
5.4
Saddle Pals
5
The Ten Commandments
7.773
Bad Men of the Border
5
Corpus Christi Bandits
0
South of the Rio Grande
0
The Bold Frontiersman
0
Son of God’s Country
0
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
4.7
Valley of the Sun
5.8
Rim of the Canyon
4.4
Gun Law
4.5
Son of a Badman
0
Bar 20
3.8
Pawnee
6.3
The Gun Woman
0
Texas Buddies
6
The Confession
5
The Soldier and the Lady
6.5
The Gay Bride
5.8
Girl Overboard
0
Bobbed Hair
0
Going Up
0
The Buccaneer
6.4
The Paleface
6.1
The Big Fisherman
4.6
Outlaws of Red River
0
The Arizona Express
5.6
The Gang Buster
5.8
Night Flight
5.8
River Gang
0
Nomads of the North
5.5
The Ghost Flower
0
Operator 13
5.7
The Desert's Toll
0
Men of the Timberland
0
The Notorious Lady
7
The Girl from Alaska
6
70,000 Witnesses
4.8
Trilby
0
Puppets of Fate
0
Magnificent Doll
5.9
Strange Confession
6.8
The Devil's Playground
7
Walk the Proud Land
6.1
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
6.3
Last Stagecoach West
4.3
In Spite of Danger
1
The Yankee Señor
0
The Drag Net
6
The Devil at His Elbow
0
Duel in the Sun
6.344
Apache Chief
3.667
So This Is Marriage?
0
The Trumpet Blows
0
Carmen
0
Big Brown Eyes
6.3
The Perils of Pauline
6.2
Red Mountain
6.4
Prudence on Broadway
0
Toton
0
Hidden Valley
6
In Line of Duty
0
A Successful Failure
2.5
Honor of the Mounted
0
Brothers
0
Canyon Passage
6.6
Screen Tests for Faust
0
Kickin' the Crown Around
6.5
The Light Within
0
Sadie McKee
7
The Express Messenger
0
The Last Train from Madrid
4.7