Donald MacBride Trailers
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Donald Hugh MacBride (June 23, 1893 – June 21, 1957) was an American character actor on stage, in films, and on television who launched his career as a teenage singer (making several recordings in 1907) in vaudeville and went on to be an actor on Broadway, where he appeared in Room Service.
He appeared in nearly 140 films between 1914 and 1955. His year of birth is given variously as 1889 or 1893 in the standard reference books, but the latter seems to be the correct one as his New York Times obituary records his age as 63.
MacBride was best known for his portrayal of detectives in crime films. One such role was as Sgt. Roberts in the 1941 comedy Topper Returns, starring Roland Young. He also did several slapstick roles in films with comedians such as the Marx Brothers.
He had the role of Milton J. Clyde on the television version of My Friend Irma.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. Survivors included his wife and a stepson.
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02 January 1943
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy.
13 December 1940
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
05 February 1950
Newlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey Pennyworth and by considerably-less-helpful manager, Knobby Walsh.
26 June 1942
Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb.
19 June 1936
An Educational Pictures comedy starring the husband and wife team of Tim and Irene Ryan.
17 April 1932
Ruth Etting shows how she make a perfect three minute egg by singing a song with a length of exactly three minutes.
07 April 1939
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight.
04 December 1947
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe.
05 October 1951
A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.
20 July 1939
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings.
22 June 1945
Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
12 January 1945
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
20 September 1947
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the story leading to that point is told in flashback as narrated by Walsh.
21 November 1941
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football e
09 April 1946
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him.
27 June 1948
A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.
01 April 1943
In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor.
21 March 1941
Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles in "Curtain Call" as theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey 'Jeff' Crandall.
01 March 1946
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
31 December 1941
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
17 November 1915
The lovely and wealthy Gladys Barnes is pursued by many young men though she favors the persistent Earle.
30 October 1950
A young executive is trying to convince an airline to sponsor a travel show on television, but he's not getting anywhere.
29 December 1934
Vaudeville performers Cook and Butler are mistaken for domestic servants; hilarity ensues.
09 July 1933
Tom Howard gets into a poker game on the train with some guys who make up their own rules.
18 April 1940
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
24 December 1944
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
05 March 1951
Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself.
23 February 1939
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
24 January 1951
Slip, Sach and the gang think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
01 December 1919
Margaret Kennard takes her baby daughter Agnes and leaves her husband Eustace for James Carroll. Upon discovering that James is a thief, she leaves him, joins the Salvation Army, and places Agnes in a convent.
01 May 1947
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country.
21 November 1936
In this short film, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen preside over the courtroom for a day, dispensing their own comic brand of justice.
08 February 1952
A lounge singer sees his career skyrocket after he signs a contract for a mobster nightclub owner.
13 September 1940
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.
10 February 1940
Behind-the-scenes promotional featurette to publicize the epic outdoor adventure Northwest Passage filmed on location in Idaho.
07 March 1952
Gil Lamb, window washer at the "Daily Record" has aspirations of becoming a reporter and marrying Carol Hughes, the city editor's secretary.
20 November 1951
A young woman (Janet Leigh) leaves her small hometown in Vermont and travels to New York City with hopes of becoming a Broadway star.
03 June 1955
When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.
13 August 1946
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
31 August 1939
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
26 March 1942
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim.
29 July 1933
Complications ensue when a singer discovers he has a double in this musical short film.
26 January 1940
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
19 December 1940
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels.
04 May 1948
A photographer is murdered just outside a college dance. The body is found by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it's being whisked from one point to another on campus by an ex-con night watchman.
07 April 1915
A small boy, Bobby, substitutes some counterfeit which is intended for stage use for a real roll of bills.
08 August 1930
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs.
13 January 1934
Two sailors come ashore in New York with enough liquor--which was illegal at the time, due to Prohibition--to have a good time.
04 March 1943
Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry her.
12 November 1949
Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny.
10 November 1938
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head Webb re-hire disgraced publicity agent Morgan for her personal appearance tour.
08 February 1952
Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected.
22 November 1939
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary.
15 June 1939
An outlaw kidnaps a dancer and her lover in order to win a bet.
30 August 1946
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight.
25 September 1941
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.
08 September 1942
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
25 November 1944
Newlyweds Arthur and Vivian arrive to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., only to find it occupied.
15 November 1951
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes.
13 February 1934
A freshly minted private eye is sent to a sanitarium as a gag.
