Frank McDonald
Frank McDonald , also Frank MacDonald and Bill Raynor , (born November 9, 1899 in Baltimore , Maryland , USA , † March 8, 1980 in Oxnard , California , USA ) was an American film and television director, actor and cameraman.
Life
Frank McDonald, was a railroad worker in the years leading up to his arrival in Hollywood. Then he worked as a writer and worked on the theater stage as an actor and director. In 1933 he started working as a dialogue director for Warner Bros. and two years later got the opportunity to direct a film. He then went to Monogram Pictures , which was later taken over by Allied Artists , and worked there on B-Movies in western, action and war films until his retirement in 1965.
At Republik Pictures , McDonald worked extensively on western films with western stars Roy Rogers and Gene Autry . He later became one of the mainstays of Gene Autry's Flying "A" Ranch Rodeo Schow.
In 1946, McDonald, along with Rogers, Autry, and others, was one of the founders of the film town of Pioneertown .
In his career, McDonald made more than 100 films and was also featured in the credits as Frank MacDonald and Bill Raynor.
Frank McDonald was married to actress Goodee Montgomery . He died on March 8, 1980 in Oxnard, California at the age of 80.
Trivia
Evelyn Keyes once said: "I have never met a director who panicked when he started making a film like Frank McDonald".
Filmography
Director
- 1935: Broadway hostess
- 1936: Boulder Dam
- 1936: Isle of Fury
- 1936: Love Begins at Twenty
- 1936: Mr. Trent cheats old age ( The Big Noise )
- 1936: Murder by an Aristocrat
- 1936: The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
- 1936: The Song of a Nation
- 1936: Treachery Rides the Range
- 1937: Dance Charlie Dance
- 1937: Fly Away Baby
- 1937: Her Husband's Secretary
- 1937: Midnight Court
- 1937: Smart Blonde
- 1937: The Adventurous Blonde
- 1938: Blondes at Work
- 1938: The Daredevil ( Flirting with Fate )
- 1938: Freshman Year
- 1938: Over the Wall
- 1938: Reckless Living
- 1939: Death Goes North
- 1939: First Offenders
- 1939: Jeepers Creepers
- 1939: They Asked for It
- 1940: Barnyard Follies
- 1940: Carolina Moon
- 1940: Gaucho Serenade
- 1940: Grand Ole Opry
- 1940: In Old Missouri
- 1940: Rancho Grande
- 1940: Ride Tenderfoot Ride
- 1940: Village Barn Dance
- 1941: Arkansas Judge
- 1941: Country Fair
- 1941: Flying Blind
- 1941: No Hands on the Clock
- 1941: Tuxedo Junction
- 1941: Under Fiesta Stars
- 1942: Shepherd of the Ozarks
- 1942: The Old Homestead
- 1942: The Traitor Within
- 1942: Wildcat
- 1942: Wrecking Crew
- 1943: Alaska Highway
- 1943: High Explosive
- 1943: Hoosier Holiday
- 1943: Mountain Rhythm
- 1943: O, My Darling Clementine
- 1943: Submarine Alert
- 1943: Swing Your Partner
- 1944: Gambler's Choice
- 1944: Lights of Old Santa Fe
- 1944: One Body Too Many
- 1944: Sing, Neighbor, Sing
- 1944: Take It Big
- 1944: Timber Queen
- 1945: Along the Navajo Trail
- 1945: Bells of Rosarita
- 1945: Eldorado Serenade ( Sunset in El Dorado )
- 1945: Scared Stiff
- 1945: Tell It to a Star
- 1945: The Chicago Kid
- 1945: Death Race across the Prairie ( Man from Oklahoma )
- 1946: Rainbow Over Texas
- 1946: Gunfire at the Ranch ( My Pal Trigger )
- 1946: Sioux City Sue
- 1946: Song of Arizona
- 1946: Under Nevada Skies
- 1947: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
- 1947: Hit Parade of 1947
- 1947: Linda Be Good
- 1947: Twilight on the Rio Grande
- 1947: When a Girl's Beautiful
- 1948: 13 Lead Soldiers with Tom Conway
- 1948: French Leave
- 1948: Gun Smugglers
- 1948: Mr. Reckless
- 1949: Eagle Eye, the Brave Sioux ( Apache Chief )
- 1949: Ringside
- 1949: The Big Sombrero
- 1950: Racket Squad TV series (episodes unknown)
- 1950: Call of the Klondike
- 1950: Snow Dog
- 1950–1954: The Gene Autry Show TV series (16 episodes)
- 1951: Cowboy vengeance in Oklahoma ( Sierra Passage ) with Wayne Morris
- 1951: Father Takes the Air
- 1951: Northwest Territory
- 1951: Texans Never Cry
- 1951: Yellow Fin
- 1951: Yukon Manhunt
- 1951–1953: The Range Rider TV series (7 episodes)
- 1951–1955: Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok TV series (35 episodes)
- 1952: In the Wild West ( Death Valley Days ) TV series (episodes unknown)
- 1952: Sea Tiger
- 1952: The Ghost of Crossbones Canyon
- 1952: The Yellow Haired Kid
- 1952: Yukon Gold
- 1953: Border City Rustlers
- 1953: Secret of Outlaw Flats
- 1953: Six Gun Decision
- 1953: Son of Belle Starr
- 1953: Two Gun Marshal
- 1954: Four Star Playhouse TV series (3 episodes)
- 1954: The Whistler TV series (2 episodes)
- 1954: Marshals in Disguise
- 1954: Outlaw's Son
- 1954: The Two Gun Teacher
- 1954: Thunder Pass
- 1954: Trouble on the Trail
- 1954–1956: Annie Oakley TV series (18 episodes)
- 1955: Sheena - Queen of the Jungle ( Sheena: Queen of the Jungle ) TV series (1 episode)
- 1955: The Adventures of Champion TV series (episodes unknown)
- 1955: A case for Johnny Denton, also known as "Verbrecherzentrale Totenkopf" ( The Big Tip Off )
- 1955: Phantom Trails
- 1955: Treasure of Ruby Hills with Zachary Scott and Lee Van Cleef
- 1955: The Matchmaking Marshal
- 1955: The Titled Tenderfoot
- 1955: Timber Country Trouble
- 1955–1956: Buffalo Bill, Jr. TV series (2 episodes)
- 1955–1959: Wyatt Earp intervenes ( The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp ) TV series (15 episodes)
- 1956: I tre moschettieri TV series (number of episodes unknown)
- 1957: Broken Arrow TV series (4 episodes)
- 1958: Meet McGraw TV series (2 episodes)
- 1958: Le imprese di una spada leggendaria
- 1959: The Bounty Hunter ( Josh Wanted: Dead or Alive ) TV series (1 episode)
- 1959: Mantelli e spade insanguinate
- 1959: The Purple Gang
- 1959-1960: Pony Express ( Pony Express ) TV series (5 episodes)
- 1960: Raymie
- 1961–1962: Vilma and King ( National Velvet ) TV series (30 episodes)
- 1961: Tales of Wells Fargo TV series (2 episodes)
- 1962: The Tall Man TV series (1 episode)
- 1962: The Underwater City
- 1963: Death rode in the saddle ( Gunfight at Comanche Creek ) with Audie Murphy and DeForest Kelley
- 1964: McHale's Navy TV series (1 episode)
- 1964–1965: Flipper ( Flipper ) TV series (3 episodes)
- 1965: Mara of the Wilderness
- 1965–1966: Mini-Max or the Incredible Adventures of Maxwell Smart ( Get Smart ) TV series (5 episodes)
- 1994: Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone (Flashback Sequences)
actor
- 1945: Bells of Rosarita
- 1958: Le imprese di una spada leggendaria
camera operator
- 1959: Okefenokee
producer
- 1947: Hit Parade of 1947 (Associate Producer)
Screenwriter
- 1940: Forgotten Girls (story)
Remaining staff
- 1934: British Agent (dialogue director)
- 1934: I Am a Thief (dialogue director)
- 1934: Smarty (dialogue director)
- 1934: The Key (dialogue director)
- 1935: A Night at the Ritz (dialogue director)
- 1935: Black Fury, also In blinder Wut (TV title) (dialogue director)
- 1935: The woman on page 1 ( Front Page Woman ) (dialogue director)
- 1935: I Was a Burlesque Queen (1953) (Director: archive footage)
- 1935: Little Big Shot (dialogue director)
Web links
- Frank McDonald in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Frank McDonald in the All Movie Guide (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Movie Celebrities to Launch Development of 'World's Most Unusual City' on Desert Today , The San Bernardino County Sun, September 1, 1946 (PDF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McDonald, Frank |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | MacDonald, Frank; Raynor, Bill |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film and television director, actor, and cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore , Maryland , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1980 |
| Place of death | Oxnard , California , USA |