Jack McDonald (September 17, 1880 – 1962) was an American actor of the

silent era A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh ...

. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1912 and 1930. He was born in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

Partial filmography

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Shotgun Jones ''Shotgun Jones'' is a 1914 American short silent Western film directed by Colin Campbell. Cast * Wheeler Oakman * Jack McDonald * Frank Clark (as Frank M. Clark) * Hoot Gibson * Bessie Eyton * Fernando Gálvez * William Elmer * Joseph W. ...

'' (1914) * ''

A Just Punishment ''A Just Punishment'' is a lost 1914 silent short film directed by Edward Le Saint and starring Guy Oliver and Eugenie Besserer. Cast *Guy Oliver - Bob Preston *Eugenie Besserer Eugenie Besserer ( – May 29, 1934) was an American actress ...

'' (1914) * ''

Chip of the Flying U ''Chip of the Flying U'' is a 1926 American silent Western comedy film based on a novel by Bertha Muzzy Sinclair. It was directed by Lynn Reynolds and starred Hoot Gibson. Universal Pictures produced and released the film. A print is preserve ...

'' (1914) * ''

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'' is a classic American 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her aunts, one stern and one kind, in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine. Rebecca's joy ...

'' (1917) * '' One Touch of Sin'' (1917) * ''

The Girl of My Dreams ''The Girl of My Dreams'' is a lost 1918 British silent film romance directed by Louis Chaudet and starring Billie Rhodes. Cast *Billie Rhodes - The Weed * Jack McDonald - George Bassett *Lamar Johnstone - Kenneth Stewart (*as Lamar Johnston) *Gol ...

'' (1918) * '' Better Times'' (1919) * ''

The Last of the Mohicans ''The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757'' is a historical romance written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. It is the second book of the '' Leatherstocking Tales'' pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. '' The Pathfinde ...

'' (1920) * '' Ladies Must Live'' (1921) * ''

The Big Punch ''The Big Punch'' is a 1921 American silent Western film directed by John Ford. No copy of the film is known to survive in either a public repository or private collection, so it is currently presumed to be a lost film. In France, the film was ...

'' (1921) * '' The Bait'' (1921) * '' Singing River'' (1921) * ''

The World's a Stage ''The World's a Stage'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell and starring Dorothy Phillips, Bruce McRae, and Kenneth Harlan.''Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema'', p. 66 Cast * Dorothy Phillips as Jo Bisho ...

'' (1922) * '' Main Street'' (1923) * '' Cameo Kirby'' (1923) * ''

The Circus Cowboy ''The Circus Cowboy'' is a lost 1924 American silent Western film directed by William A. Wellman and produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. Plot As described in a film magazine review, returning home from Africa, Buck Saxon finds ...

'' (1924) * '' Against All Odds'' (1924) * ''

Greed Greed (or avarice) is an uncontrolled longing for increase in the acquisition or use of material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions); or social value, such as Social status, status, or Power (social and politica ...

'' (1924) * ''

Don Q, Son of Zorro ''Don Q, Son of Zorro'' is a 1925 American silent swashbuckler romance film and a sequel to the 1920 silent film '' The Mark of Zorro''. It was loosely based upon the 1909 novel ''Don Q.'s Love Story'', written by the mother-and-son duo Kate a ...

'' (1925) * '' Champion of Lost Causes'' (1925) * ''

The Interferin' Gent ''The Interferin' Gent'' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Richard Thorpe. It stars Jay Wilsey, Al Taylor, and Olive Hasbrouck. It was released on August 21, 1927. Cast list * Jay Wilsey as Bill Stannard (credited as Buffalo ...

'' (1927) * '' The Dove'' (1927) * ''

The Phantom City ''The Phantom City'' is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Albert S. Rogell and written by Adele Buffington and Fred Allen. The film stars Ken Maynard, Eugenia Gilbert, James Mason, Charles Hill Mailes, Jack McDonald and Blue Was ...

'' (1928) * '' The Whip'' (1928) * ''

Show Boat ''Show Boat'' is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock worke ...

'' (1929) * ''

The Ship from Shanghai ''The Ship from Shanghai'' is a 1930 Pre-Code American action film directed by Charles Brabin and written by John Howard Lawson. The film stars Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Carmel Myers, Holmes Herbert and Zeffie Tilbury. The film was released ...

'' (1930) * '' Big Money'' (1930)

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* 1880 births 1962 deaths American male film actors American male silent film actors Male actors from California 20th-century American male actors {{US-film-actor-1880s-stub