Katherine MacDonald
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Katherine MacDonald.
Born: December 13, 1891
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
Shark Monroe
In this 1918 film, newly restored by MoMA, Hart is a ship's captain in the Pacific Northwest who abandons his post to pursue a woman who does not love him (MacDonald) across the Klondike, eventually rescuing her from the grip of a white slaver.
Mr. Fix-It
A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gathering and falls in love. The arrival of a gang of hoodlums further disrupts the formalities, but our hero thwarts them and saves the day.
The Squaw Man
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.
Old Loves and New
Gervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde Geraldine, a cad of the first order, but Elinor, in turn is cast off when Lord Geraldine turns his attention to an Irish lass, Marny. Marny has no idea of Geraldine's past nor his brutal nature.
The Woman Thou Gavest Me
Mary Mac Neill (Katherine MacDonald), whose father (Theodore Roberts) marries her off to Lord Raa (Jack Holt) in order to satisfy an old grudge. But Mary wants nothing to do with the dissolute Lord and tells him so on their wedding night. So he takes his mistress, Alma Lier (Fritzi Brunette), to India and passes her off as Lady Raa, while Mary disappears to a French village, where she spends time with the man she loved all along, explorer Martin Conrad (Milton Sills).
The Infidel
Lola Daintry (MacDonald) is an actress who's mad at the world, and especially ministers, one of whom -- her father -- was so cruel that he drove her mother out of the house. When Bully Haynes (Melbourne MacDonald) wants her help in showing up a group of South Seas missionaries, she's more than happy to assist. But Lola doesn't realize she's being used so that Haynes can gain control over the copra trade from his rival, Cyrus Flint (Robert Ellis).
The Woman Conquers
Tired of her friends and life as a society leader, Ninon Le Compte goes north to the Hudson Bay area to inspect trapping holdings inherited from her uncle.
Passion's Playground
Mary Grant has a gambling father and a mother who has disappeared. Even though she has been raised in a convent she proves true to her ancestry by running away to Monte Carlo and spending her small inheritance at the gambling table.
The Turning Point
Upon finding themselves in financial difficulties because of the failure of the Edgerton-Tennant Company, New York socialites Diana and Silvette Tennant decide to work as society hostesses.
My Lady's Latchkey
Young Annesley Grayle, weary of a gloomy, uneventful existence with her aunt, accepts the proposal of a young American that she pose as his wife. Later, they are actually married. When, at a ball, she hears her husband accused of stealing a valuable diamond and realizes that he is indeed a thief, she hides the jewel to save him.
Filmography
as Elinor Carew / Lady Geraldine
as Flora Brookes
as Norma O'Neill
as Dora Mason
as Nadia
as Priscilla Hobbs
as Ninon Le Compte
as Virginia Pitman
as Susanne Danbury
as Barbara Benton
as Lola Daintry
as Mary Gray
as Helen Haynes / Elsie Parmelee
as Marion Hoyte
as Annesley Grayle
as Nancy Bradshaw
as Gaenor Lisle
as Mary Grant
as Diana Tennant
as Amelie Thorndike
as Ruth Pomeroy
as Joy Blythe
as Mary MacNeill
as Mary Dillman
as Diana, Henry's Wife
as Poliet's daughter
as Kathleen Harkness
as Marjorie Hilton
as Georgiana Burroughs
as The Girl
as Flora Edwards
as Betty Austin