Edmund MacDonald
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 7, 1908
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known For
Detour
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
Destry Rides Again
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Castle in the Desert
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...
Call of the Canyon
A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
Who Done It?
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
Hangmen Also Die!
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
Texas
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
Whispering Ghosts
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain.
The Invisible Man Returns
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Filmography
as Farlane
as Si
as Bob Burley
as Lawrence Dale (as Edmond MacDonald)
as Anthony Waldron
as Jack Conley aka Chance
as Charles Haskell Jr.
as Slasher
as Lucky Brandon
as Fred Baxter
as Joe Birsdell
as Lt. LeBlanc
as Assistant District Attorney Knox
as Dr. Pillar
as Detective Lt. Grogan
as Terry Barton
as Lt. Cmdr. Bill Drake
as Ross Lambert
as Butch Burke
as 'Murder at Midnight' Announcer
as Blackie Bales
as Thomas McCoy
as Pierre Lacour
as Jerry Gilpin
as Det. Capt. Bill Hurd
as Walter Hartford
as Hippo
as Comstock
as Ed Wheeler
as Joe Turner
as Elder
as Spike
as Barnacle
as Frank Miller
as Miner at Radcliffe Colliery (uncredited)
as Rockwell (as Edmund Macdonald)
as Lt. Thompson
as First Cop (uncredited)
as Chris Nelson
as Gerald Winthrop