Frank McDonald
Born: 1899-11-09 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Died: 1980-03-08
Known For: Directing
Biography
A former railroad worker, Frank McDonald came to Hollywood after a career on the stage as an actor/producer/director. At first hired as a dialogue director, McDonald turned out some scripts and in the mid-'30s began directing. Working for almost every studio in Hollywood at one time or another, he did a lot of work for Republic, grinding out Gene Autry and Roy Rogers westerns, and at the Pine/Thomas "B" unit at Paramount, churning out westerns, action dramas and war pictures. Not entirely comfortable as a director -Evelyn Keyes once said, "I've never seen anyone as terrified of directing as Frank McDonald" - he nevertheless turned out more than 100 pictures in his career.
Filmography
1994
- Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone ... (Director)
1965
- Get Smart ... (Director)
- Mara of the Wilderness ... (Director)
1964
- Flipper ... (Director)
1963
- Gunfight at Comanche Creek ... (Director)
1962
- McHale's Navy ... (Director)
- The Underwater City ... (Director)
1960
- Raymie ... (Director)
- National Velvet ... (Director)
1959
- Okefenokee ... (Cinematography)
- Mantelli e spade insanguinate ... (Director)
- The Purple Gang ... (Director)
1958
- Wanted: Dead or Alive ... (Director)
- Le Imprese di una Spada Leggendaria ... (Director)
1956
- Broken Arrow ... (Director)
1955
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp ... (Director)
- Phantom Trails ... (Director)
- Sheena: Queen of the Jungle ... (Director)
- The Big Tip Off ... (Director)
- Timber Country Trouble ... (Director)
- Treasure of Ruby Hills ... (Director)
- The Matchmaking Marshal ... (Director)
- The Tilted Tenderfoot ... (Director)
1954
- The Whistler ... (Director)
- The Two Gun Teacher ... (Director)
- Trouble on the Trail ... (Director)
- Outlaw's Son ... (Director)
- Marshals in Disguise ... (Director)
- Thunder Pass ... (Director)
1953
- Secret of Outlaw Flats ... (Director)
- Son of Belle Starr ... (Director)
- Six Gun Decision ... (Director)
- Border City Rustlers ... (Director)
- Two Gun Marshal ... (Director)
1952
- Four Star Playhouse ... (Director)
- Sea Tiger ... (Director)
- Yukon Gold ... (Director)
- The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon ... (Director)
- The Yellow Haired Kid ... (Director)
1951
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok ... (Director)
- Yukon Manhunt ... (Director)
- Northwest Territory ... (Director)
- The Range Rider ... (Director)
- Texans Never Cry ... (Director)
- Father Takes the Air ... (Director)
- Yellow Fin ... (Director)
1950
- The Gene Autry Show ... (Director)
- Sierra Passage ... (Director)
- Call of the Klondike ... (Director)
- Snow Dog ... (Director)
1949
- Ringside ... (Director)
- The Big Sombrero ... (Director)
- Apache Chief ... (Director)
1948
- Gun Smugglers ... (Director)
- French Leave ... (Director)
- Mr. Reckless ... (Director)
- 13 Lead Soldiers ... (Director)
1947
- Linda, Be Good ... (Director)
- When a Girl's Beautiful ... (Director)
- Twilight on the Rio Grande ... (Director)
- Hit Parade of 1947 ... (Director)
- Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back ... (Director)
1946
- Song of Arizona ... (Director)
- Rainbow Over Texas ... (Director)
- Sioux City Sue ... (Director)
- Under Nevada Skies ... (Director)
- My Pal Trigger ... (Director)
1945
- Scared Stiff ... (Director)
- Sunset in El Dorado ... (Director)
- Man from Oklahoma ... (Director)
- Along the Navajo Trail ... (Director)
- Bells of Rosarita ... (Director)
- The Chicago Kid ... (Director)
- Tell It to a Star ... (Director)
1944
- Timber Queen ... (Director)
- Sing, Neighbor, Sing ... (Director)
- Gambler's Choice ... (Director)
- Lights of Old Santa Fe ... (Director)
- One Body Too Many ... (Director)
- Take It Big ... (Director)
1943
- Submarine Alert ... (Director)
- Mountain Rhythm ... (Director)
- O, My Darling Clementine ... (Director)
- Alaska Highway ... (Director)
- Swing Your Partner ... (Director)
- Hoosier Holiday ... (Director)
- High Explosive ... (Director)
1942
- Wrecking Crew ... (Director)
- Wildcat ... (Director)
- The Traitor Within ... (Director)
- The Old Homestead ... (Director)
- Shepherd of the Ozarks ... (Director)
1941
- Flying Blind ... (Director)
- Arkansas Judge ... (Director)
- Country Fair ... (Director)
- No Hands on the Clock ... (Director)
- Tuxedo Junction ... (Director)
- Under Fiesta Stars ... (Director)
1940
- Carolina Moon ... (Director)
- Barnyard Follies ... (Director)
- Rancho Grande ... (Director)
- Gaucho Serenade ... (Director)
- Grand Ole Opry ... (Director)
- Village Barn Dance ... (Director)
- Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride ... (Director)
- Forgotten Girls ... (Story)
- In Old Missouri ... (Director)
1939
- Jeepers Creepers ... (Director)
- Death Goes North ... (Director)
- They Asked For It ... (Director)
- First Offenders ... (Director)
1938
- Freshman Year ... (Director)
- Blondes at Work ... (Director)
- Flirting with Fate ... (Director)
- Over the Wall ... (Director)
- Reckless Living ... (Director)
1937
- Dance Charlie Dance ... (Director)
- Fly Away Baby ... (Director)
- The Adventurous Blonde ... (Director)
- Her Husband's Secretary ... (Director)
- Smart Blonde ... (Director)
- Midnight Court ... (Director)
1936
- Love Begins at Twenty ... (Director)
- Murder by an Aristocrat ... (Director)
- The Big Noise ... (Director)
- Treachery Rides the Range ... (Director)
- Isle of Fury ... (Director)
- The Murder of Dr. Harrigan ... (Director)
- Boulder Dam ... (Director)
- The Song of a Nation ... (Director)
1935
- Broadway Hostess ... (Director)