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J. Farrell MacDonald

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Farrell MacDonald (June 6, 1875 – August 2, 1952) was an American character actor and director. He played supporting roles and occasional leads. He appeared in over 325 films over a 41-year career from 1911 to 1951, and directed forty-four silent films from 1912 to 1917. MacDonald was the principal director of L. Frank Baum's Oz Film Manufacturing Company, and he can frequently be seen in the films of Frank Capra, Preston Sturges and, especially, John Ford. Early in his career, MacDonald was a singer in minstrel shows, and he toured the United States extensively for two years with stage productions. He made his first silent film in 1911, a dramatic short entitled The Scarlett Letter made by Carl Laemmle's Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP), the forerunner of Universal Pictures,. He continued to act in numerous films each year from that time on, and by 1912 he was directing them as well. The first film he directed was The Worth of a Man, another dramatic short, again for IMP, and he was to direct 43 more films until his last in 1917, Over the Fence, which he co-directed with Harold Lloyd. MacDonald had crossed paths with Lloyd several years earlier, when Lloyd was an extra and MacDonald had given him much-needed work – and he did the same with Hal Roach, both of whom appearing in small roles in The Patchwork Girl of Oz, which MacDonald directed in 1914. When Roach set up his own studio, with Lloyd as his principal attraction, he hired MacDonald to direct. By 1918, MacDonald, who was to become one of the most beloved character men in Hollywood, had given up directing and was acting full-time, predominantly in Westerns and Irish comedies. He first worked under director John Ford in 1919's A Fight for Love. In all, Ford would use MacDonald on twenty-five films between 1919 and 1950. With a voice that matched his personality, MacDonald made the transition to sound films easily, with no noticeable drop in his acting output – if anything, it went up. In 1931, for instance, MacDonald appeared in 14 films – among them the first version of The Maltese Falcon, in which he played "Detective Tom Polhaus" – and in 22 of them in 1932. Although he played laborers, policemen, military men and priests, among many other characters, his roles were usually a cut above a "bit part". His characters usually had names, and he was most often credited for his performances. A highlight of this period was his performance as the hobo "Mr. Tramp" in Our Little Girl with Shirley Temple (1935). In the 1940s, MacDonald was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in seven films written and directed by Sturges. MacDonald appeared in Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Great Moment, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Unfaithfully Yours and The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, Sturges' last American film. Earlier, MacDonald had also appeared in The Power and the Glory, which Sturges wrote. His work on Sturges' films was generally uncredited. He was notable in 1946 in John Ford's My Darling Clementine in which he played "Mac," the bartender in the town saloon. MacDonald also had uncredited roles in It's a Wonderful Life and Here Comes The Groom.

Release Date	Title	Character Name	Rating
May 12th, 1997	Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line	Self (archive footage)	7.7
November 23rd, 1951	Superman and the Mole Men	Pop Shannon	5.4
September 20th, 1951	Here Comes the Groom	Husband on Airplane (uncredited)	5.4
August 1st, 1951	Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell	Mr. Kroeger	7.2
November 10th, 1950	Woman on the Run	Cap, the Retired Ferryboat Captain	6.8
March 24th, 1950	Hostile Country	Mr. Lane (uncredited)	4.3
February 25th, 1950	The Daltons' Women	Alvin	4.5
February 17th, 1950	When Willie Comes Marching Home	Gilby - Pharmacist (uncredited)	6.9
February 17th, 1950	Dakota Lil	Ellis	5.4
October 20th, 1949	The Dalton Gang	Judge Price	5.3
July 22nd, 1949	You're My Everything	Doorman (uncredited)	4.8
April 15th, 1949	Streets of San Francisco	Pop Lockhart	9
December 31st, 1948	Trouble Preferred	Apartment House Manager (uncredited)	6
December 9th, 1948	Whispering Smith	Bill Baggs	6.7
December 3rd, 1948	Shep Comes Home	Sheriff Cap Weatherby	6.5
November 22nd, 1948	The Walls of Jericho	Bailiff (uncredited)	5.6
November 13th, 1948	Belle Starr's Daughter	Doc Benson	5.1
April 30th, 1948	Fury at Furnace Creek	Pops Murphy (uncredited)	6.3
March 10th, 1948	Sitting Pretty	Cop (uncredited)	7.1
February 22nd, 1948	Panhandle	Doc Cooper	5.8
February 7th, 1948	If You Knew Susie	Police Sergeant (uncredited)	7.3
November 1st, 1947	Thunder in the Valley	McPherson - Innkeeper	8.3
October 31st, 1947	Christmas Eve	Policeman (uncredited)	5.4
September 1st, 1947	The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer	Mac, Bailiff (uncredited)	6.9
July 10th, 1947	Keeper of the Bees	Postmaster	10
June 10th, 1947	Web of Danger	Scotty MacKronish - Bus Driver	5.5
April 4th, 1947	The Sin of Harold Diddlebock	Desk Sergeant (uncredited)	6.4
December 20th, 1946	It's a Wonderful Life	Man Whose Grandfather Planted Tree (uncredited)	8.3
October 30th, 1946	Goodbye, Weeds	Gardener	TBD
October 17th, 1946	My Darling Clementine	Mac the barman	7.5
June 26th, 1946	Smoky	Jim, the Cook	5.7
May 26th, 1946	Joe Palooka, Champ	Long-Count Bowman	8
December 14th, 1945	Pillow of Death	TBD	6.7
November 15th, 1945	Fallen Angel	Bank Guard (uncredited)	6.6
October 25th, 1945	Johnny Angel	Capt. Angel	6
April 20th, 1945	Circumstantial Evidence	Jury Foreman	5.2
February 28th, 1945	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Mr. Carney The Junkman (uncredited)	7.5
February 7th, 1945	Hangover Square	Street Vendor (uncredited)	7
September 27th, 1944	Greenwich Village	O'Shea, policeman	6.7
September 18th, 1944	The Miracle of Morgan's Creek	Sheriff (uncredited)	6.9
July 18th, 1944	The Great Moment	The Priest	5.8
February 8th, 1944	Texas Masquerade	John Martindale	6.5
December 24th, 1943	True to Life	Man (uncredited)	8
September 10th, 1943	Tiger Fangs	Geoffrey MacCardle	7
March 5th, 1943	The Ape Man	Captain O'Brien	4.4
March 1st, 1943	Harrigan's Kid	Frank (uncredited)	7
December 31st, 1942	The McGuerins from Brooklyn	Cop	6.7
October 30th, 1942	Bowery at Midnight	Capt. Mitchell	5.1
October 2nd, 1942	Phantom Killer	Police Captain	5.2
August 28th, 1942	The Palm Beach Story	Officer O'Donnell (uncredited)	7
August 11th, 1942	The Living Ghost	Police Lt. 'Pete' Peterson	4.3
June 5th, 1942	One Thrilling Night	Police Sergeant Haggerty	5.4
March 26th, 1942	Reap the Wild Wind	Port Captain	6.4
February 12th, 1942	Captains of the Clouds	Dr. Neville	6.6
January 31st, 1942	Wild Bill Hickok Rides	Henry Hathaway	5.5
January 16th, 1942	Private Snuffy Smith	Gen. Rosewater	4.3
December 19th, 1941	Law of the Timber	Adams	7
September 17th, 1941	Riders of the Timberline	Jim Kerrigan	4.5
June 13th, 1941	Broadway Limited	Mulcahey	5
April 5th, 1941	The Great Lie	Dr. Ferguson	7
April 4th, 1941	In Old Cheyenne	Tim Casey	4.6
March 14th, 1941	Meet John Doe	'Sourpuss'	7.3
November 17th, 1940	Friendly Neighbors	Sheiff Potts	8
July 24th, 1940	Untamed	Dr. Billar	5
July 13th, 1940	Pony Express Days	Nevada Jim	6.5
July 12th, 1940	Stagecoach War	Jeff Chapman	6
June 25th, 1940	The Last Alarm	Jim Hadley	4.5
June 14th, 1940	Prairie Law	Sheriff Jim Austin	7
May 20th, 1940	I Take This Oath	Insp. Tim Ryan	5.4
April 17th, 1940	The Light of Western Stars	Bill Stillwell	5
April 15th, 1940	Dark Command	Dave	6.4
February 23rd, 1940	Knights of the Range	Cappy	7
December 25th, 1939	The Gentleman from Arizona	Wild Bill Coburn	10
October 26th, 1939	The Housekeeper's Daughter	Captain	4.6
September 8th, 1939	Full Confession	Joe, Police Sergeant (uncredited)	5.6
August 18th, 1939	They Shall Have Music	Police Chief (uncredited)	6.5
August 4th, 1939	Coast Guard	Capt. Hansen (uncredited)	6
August 1st, 1939	Conspiracy	Captain of the Falcon	6.7
July 3rd, 1939	Mickey the Kid	Sheriff J.J. Willoughby	9
June 13th, 1939	Susannah of the Mounties	Pat O'Hannegan	6.5
April 21st, 1939	Zenobia	Judge	4.9
April 7th, 1939	East Side of Heaven	Doorman (uncredited)	7.4
February 25th, 1939	The Lone Ranger Rides Again	Craig Dolan	7.3
December 2nd, 1938	Little Orphan Annie	'Pop' Corrigan	8
November 25th, 1938	Submarine Patrol	CWO 'Sails' Quincannon	6.7
November 21st, 1938	Come On, Rangers	Colonel Forbes	8
November 10th, 1938	Gang Bullets	Chief Reardon	5.9
October 27th, 1938	The Last Express	William Barton (Detective Agency Head)	4
October 14th, 1938	There Goes My Heart	Officer	7.3
August 6th, 1938	The Crowd Roars	Father Patrick Ryan	7
August 3rd, 1938	Barefoot Boy	Warden	5.4
June 23rd, 1938	White Banners	Dr. Thompson	6.1
May 22nd, 1938	Numbered Woman	Capt. Mike Ryan	7
May 9th, 1938	Extortion	Coach Pearson	7
March 18th, 1938	State Police	Charlie Wheeler	8
February 9th, 1938	My Old Kentucky Home	Mayor Jim Hopkins	7.5
December 1st, 1937	Courage of the West	Buck Saunders	8
November 24th, 1937	County Fair	Calvin Williams	7.5
September 21st, 1937	The Game That Kills	Joe Holland	6.3
September 17th, 1937	My Dear Miss Aldrich	'Doc' Howe	6.3
July 16th, 1937	Topper	Policeman	6.7
July 3rd, 1937	Roaring Timber	Andrew MacKinley	6
July 1st, 1937	Flying Fists	Bill 'One-Punch' Fagin	6
June 24th, 1937	Slim	Pop	6.5
June 16th, 1937	Slave Ship	Proprietor	5.1
June 4th, 1937	Parnell	Irish Laborer (uncredited)	4.6
June 4th, 1937	Parnell	Irish Laborer	4.6
April 26th, 1937	The Hit Parade	Sgt. O'Hara	6.3
February 12th, 1937	Maid of Salem	Captain of Ship	6.2
January 2nd, 1937	The Great Barrier	Major Rogers	7.5
December 27th, 1936	Mysterious Crossing	Police Chief Bullock	10
May 17th, 1936	Show Boat	Windy MacLaine	6.7
May 1st, 1936	Florida Special	Harrigan	7
January 17th, 1936	Exclusive Story	Michael Devlin	7.2
January 3rd, 1936	Riffraff	'Brains'	5.4
December 28th, 1935	Hitch Hike Lady	Judge Hale	7.8
November 1st, 1935	Fighting Youth	Coach Parker	7.7
October 21st, 1935	Stormy	Trinidad Dorn	7
October 4th, 1935	Waterfront Lady	Capt. O'Brien	5.3
August 1st, 1935	Danger Ahead	Harry Cromwell	5
July 31st, 1935	The Irish in Us	Capt. Jackson	7.5
July 11th, 1935	Front Page Woman	Hallohan	5.9
July 6th, 1935	Shadows of the Orient	Inspector Sullivan	5.6
June 27th, 1935	The Arizonian	Marshal Andy Jordan	8
June 14th, 1935	The Healer	Applejack	6.2
May 15th, 1935	Let 'em Have It	Mr. Keefer	7.6
May 4th, 1935	Swellhead	Umpire	10
April 19th, 1935	Star of Midnight	Inspector Doremus	5.9
February 22nd, 1935	The Whole Town's Talking	Prison Warden (uncredited)	6.9
February 1st, 1935	Northern Frontier	Inspector	8
January 21st, 1935	Square Shooter	Sheriff	6.2
January 14th, 1935	The Best Man Wins	Captain--Harbor Patrol	6.6
January 12th, 1935	Maybe It's Love	The Cop	7
January 11th, 1935	Romance in Manhattan	Murphy	7.8
January 1st, 1935	Our Little Girl	Hobo	5
August 17th, 1934	Beggar's Holiday	Pop Malloy	9
March 24th, 1934	Once to Every Woman	Flannigan	6.1
March 14th, 1934	The Crime Doctor	Kemp	3.8
March 5th, 1934	The Crosby Case	The Doorman--Mike Costello	5
January 13th, 1934	Man of Two Worlds	Michael	6.5
December 26th, 1933	Murder on the Campus	Police Capt. Ed Kyne	5.5
December 6th, 1933	Under Secret Orders	John Burke	10
November 25th, 1933	Myrt and Marge	Grady	4.1
October 6th, 1933	The Power and the Glory	Mulligan	5.9
September 23rd, 1933	I Loved a Woman	Shuster	4.8
August 4th, 1933	How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points	Himself	8
July 12th, 1933	Laughing at Life	Prison Warden	7.3
May 26th, 1933	Peg o' My Heart	Patrick Shamus 'Pat' O'Connell	5
April 20th, 1933	The Working Man	Henry 'Hank' Davis	6.5
March 13th, 1933	The Vanishing Frontier	Waco	8
February 4th, 1933	The Iron Master	J.C. Stillman	7
December 30th, 1932	No Man of Her Own	"Dickie" Collins	6.6
December 16th, 1932	The Racing Strain	Mr. Martin	10
December 4th, 1932	Me and My Gal	Pop Riley	6.4
November 18th, 1932	Men Are Such Fools	Prison Warden Randolph	7
October 17th, 1932	The Pride of the Legion	Chief Scott	7
September 30th, 1932	Heritage of the Desert	Adam Naab	5.7
September 14th, 1932	This Sporting Age	Jerry O'Day	8
September 9th, 1932	70,000 Witnesses	State Coach	5.7
August 31st, 1932	Hearts of Humanity	Tom O'Hara	4.8
August 15th, 1932	The Phantom Express	D.J. 'Smokey' Nolan	5
August 9th, 1932	The Thirteenth Guest	Captain Ryan	5.2
August 1st, 1932	The Hurricane Express	Jim Baker	5.4
July 23rd, 1932	Madame Racketeer	John Adams	5.3
June 18th, 1932	Week-End Marriage	Mr. Davis	5.5
May 28th, 1932	The Strange Love of Molly Louvain	Police Sgt. J.B. Antrim (uncredited)	6.1
April 1st, 1932	Scandal for Sale	Treadway	8.5
March 15th, 1932	Probation	George Holman	6.3
March 13th, 1932	Steady Company	Hogan	10
February 21st, 1932	Hotel Continental	Detective Martin	8
January 3rd, 1932	Discarded Lovers	Sommers	4.7
January 2nd, 1932	Under Eighteen	Pop Evans	6.3
November 15th, 1931	Touchdown!	Pop Stewart	8
October 13th, 1931	The Spirit of Notre Dame	The Coach	7.3
August 23rd, 1931	The Brat	Timson, the butler	5.4
August 18th, 1931	How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 9: 'The Driver'	TBD	10
August 8th, 1931	Sporting Blood	MacGuire	5.4
August 6th, 1931	Stranger in Town	Scout	5
July 21st, 1931	The Squaw Man	Big Bill	5.4
May 23rd, 1931	The Maltese Falcon	Det. Sgt. Tom Polhaus	6.4
May 3rd, 1931	Too Young to Marry	Rev. Stump	8
May 1st, 1931	The Millionaire	Dan Lewis	7.9
April 4th, 1931	The Stolen Jools	Policeman	5.6
April 4th, 1931	Woman Hungry	Buzzard	10
February 7th, 1931	The Easiest Way	Ben Murdock	5.4
January 18th, 1931	The Painted Desert	Jeff Cameron	5.2
January 17th, 1931	Other Men's Women	Peg-Leg	5.7
November 3rd, 1930	The Truth About Youth	Colonel Graham	6.2
November 1st, 1930	River's End	O'Toole	6.4
October 12th, 1930	The Girl of the Golden West	Sonora Slim	10
March 11th, 1930	Song o' My Heart	Rafferty	4.8
February 8th, 1930	Men without Women	Costello	6.4
December 9th, 1929	South Sea Rose	Hackett	10
December 1st, 1929	The Painted Angel	Pa Hudler	10
September 16th, 1929	Happy Days	Train Conductor	6.3
July 14th, 1929	Masquerade	Joe Hickey	10
June 22nd, 1929	Masked Emotions	Will Whitten	8
March 3rd, 1929	Strong Boy	Angus McGregor	6
December 25th, 1928	In Old Arizona	Stage Passenger (uncredited)	5.5
November 25th, 1928	Riley the Cop	James 'Aloysius' Riley	5.7
October 3rd, 1928	4 Devils	The Clown	7.6
August 5th, 1928	None But the Brave	John Craig	10
April 19th, 1928	Abie's Irish Rose	Patrick Murphy	10
March 18th, 1928	Bringing Up Father	Jiggs	5
January 15th, 1928	The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris	Patrick Kelly	8
November 4th, 1927	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	The Photographer	7.8
October 9th, 1927	East Side, West Side	Pug Malone	7.2
July 23rd, 1927	Paid to Love	Peter Roberts	6.5
May 28th, 1927	Cradle Snatchers	George Martin	3.8
February 27th, 1927	Ankles Preferred	McGuire	8
December 19th, 1926	Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl	Sloan	9
October 17th, 1926	The Country Beyond	Sgt. Cassidy	10
August 29th, 1926	The Family Upstairs	Joe Heller	8
August 28th, 1926	3 Bad Men	Mike Costigan	6.9
August 16th, 1926	The Last Frontier	Wild Bill Hickok	9
June 6th, 1926	A Trip to Chinatown	Benjamin Strong	10
May 2nd, 1926	The Shamrock Handicap	Con O'Shea	5.4
March 7th, 1926	The Dixie Merchant	Jean Paul Fippany	7
January 24th, 1926	The First Year	Mr. Barstow	8
October 18th, 1925	The Fighting Heart	Jerry	6
October 5th, 1925	Thank You	Andy	4.8
October 4th, 1925	The Iron Horse	Corporal Casey	6.7
September 6th, 1925	Kentucky Pride	Donavan	6.3
August 30th, 1925	The Lucky Horseshoe	Mack	8
August 23rd, 1925	Lightnin'	Lemuel Townsend	6.6
January 4th, 1925	Let Women Alone	Commodore John Gordon	8
November 15th, 1924	Those Who Dare	TBD	8
November 6th, 1924	The Brass Bowl	Hickey	10
October 19th, 1924	Gerald Cranston's Lady	Rennie	9
July 19th, 1924	The Signal Tower	Pete	5.8
June 22nd, 1924	Western Luck	'Chuck' Campbell	7
April 14th, 1924	Mademoiselle Midnight	Duc de Moing (Prologue)	5.7
March 23rd, 1924	The Storm Daughter	Con Mullaney	9
December 16th, 1923	Fashionable Fakers	Pat O'Donnell	9
September 1st, 1923	The Age of Desire	Dan Reagan	10
August 26th, 1923	Drifting	Murphy	7
July 15th, 1923	Racing Hearts	Silas Martin	8
February 28th, 1923	Quicksands	Col. Patterson	7
January 21st, 1923	While Paris Sleeps	TBD	10
November 11th, 1922	The Young Rajah	Amhad Beg - Prime Minister	7.7
September 24th, 1922	Manslaughter	(uncredited)	5.5
September 10th, 1922	The Ghost Breaker	Sam Marcum	10
August 21st, 1922	The Bonded Woman	Captain Gaskell	4.8
June 4th, 1922	Over the Border	Peter Galbraith	10
May 7th, 1922	Tracks	Jack Bess	8
April 29th, 1922	The Bachelor Daddy	Joe Pelton	8
March 11th, 1922	Come on Over	Michael Morahan	9
January 15th, 1922	Sky High	Jim Frazer (as J. Farrel MacDonald)	5.6
December 11th, 1921	Trailin'	Joseph Piotto	5.7
November 13th, 1921	Riding with Death	Sheriff Pat Garrity	9
September 12th, 1921	Action	Mormon Peters	6.3
May 9th, 1921	The Wallop	Neuces River	6.5
April 25th, 1921	Desperate Youth	TBD	8
April 9th, 1921	The Freeze-Out	Bobtail McGuire	7
September 13th, 1920	Hitchin' Posts	Joe Alabam (as J. Farrell McDonald)	6.3
May 24th, 1920	The Path She Chose	Father	7
May 3rd, 1920	Bullet Proof	Jim Boone	9
December 21st, 1919	Marked Men	Tom Placer McGraw	6.5
August 10th, 1919	This Hero Stuff	Softnose Smith	9
June 29th, 1919	The Outcasts of Poker Flat	TBD	6
June 28th, 1919	A Sporting Chance	Luther Ripley aka Kennedy	6
June 15th, 1919	Trixie from Broadway	Slim Hayes	7
June 9th, 1919	Riders of Vengeance	Buell	6.5
March 24th, 1919	A Fight For Love	The Priest	6
February 16th, 1919	Molly of the Follies	Swannick	8
January 3rd, 1919	Roped	Butler	7
December 29th, 1918	Fair Enough	Chief of Police Morgan	9
May 25th, 1918	$5,000 Reward	Norcross	TBD
August 2nd, 1915	Rags	Paul Ferguson (as Joseph Farrell MacDonald)	7.5
March 28th, 1913	The Calling of Louis Mona	TBD	8
March 11th, 1912	A Timely Repentance	Louis Nordell	7
September 28th, 1911	'Tween Two Loves	Farmer Howard	TBD
May 18th, 1911	The Lighthouse Keeper	The Lighthouse Keeper	TBD
April 27th, 1911	The Scarlet Letter	TBD	1
January 23rd, 1911	The Dream	Secondary Role (uncredited)	5.5
July 8th, 1910	The Time-Lock Safe	Office Worker	TBD

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