David MacDonald
DirectingDavid MacDonald (9 May 1904 in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire – 22 June 1983 in London) was a Scottish film director, writer and producer.
MacDonald was the son of a wealthy landowner. His intention was to become a doctor but changed his mind and aged 17 went to Malaya to work on a rubber plantation for seven and a half years. When he had leave to return to Scotland, he travelled via Hollywood and became interested in filmmaking. He returned to Malaya and worked at a plantation in Kedah. According to one story, while in Malaya he met Douglas Fairbanks who encouraged MacDonald to try his luck in Hollywood.
MacDonald broke into Hollywood by getting a job as technical adviser on a film Prestige. After that he was out of work for nine months.
He eventually gained a job working for Cecil B. DeMille. MacDonald worked as DeMille's assistant on The Sign of the Cross (1932), Four Frightened People (1934), Cleopatra (also 1934) and The Crusades (1935). He worked on Lives of a Bengal Lancer (also 1935) with Henry Hathaway. He also worked for King Vidor and Raoul Walsh. He returned to England with Walsh when the latter came to direct O.H.M.S. (1937) and elected to stay.
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Filmografi Sutradara David MacDonald (47 judul)
- The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955) · TV
- Interpol Calling (1959) · TV
- Ivanhoe (1958) · TV
- Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! (1957) · TV
- Mark Saber (1954) · TV
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1956) · TV
- The Moonraker (1958)
- Christopher Columbus (1949)
- Cairo Road (1950)
- Good-Time Girl (1948)
- The Bad Lord Byron (1949)
- The Brothers (1947)
- Tread Softly (1952)
- Law and Disorder (1940)
- Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
- This England (1941)
- Diamond City (1949)
- Petticoat Pirates (1961)
- This Man in Paris (1939)
- Snowbound (1948)
- Spies of the Air (1939)
- Fortune in Diamonds (1951)
- This Man Is News (1938)
- The Midas Touch (1940)
- Riding High (1939)
- Alias John Preston (1955)
- The Big Frame (1952)
- Jack the Ripper (1958)
- The Last Curtain (1937)
- Dead Men Tell No Tales (1938)
- The Golden Rabbit (1962)
- Small Hotel (1957)
- Desert Victory (1943)
- It's Never Too Late to Mend (1937)
- A Lady Mislaid (1958)
- Death Croons the Blues (1937)
- Operation Malaya (1953)
- Meet Mr. Penny
- Three Cornered Fate (1955)
- The Yellow Robe
- Men of the Lightship (1940)
- Final Column
- One Just Man
- Triple Blackmail
- Make It Three
- A Spot of Bother (1938)
- Man in Demand
