Donald Macbride - Turner Classic Movies

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Donald MacBride was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. MacBride kickstarted his acting career in various films such as "Room Service" (1938) with Groucho Marx, "The Gracie Allen Murder Case" (1939) with Gracie Allen and "The Flying Irishman" (1939) with Douglas Corrigan. He also appeared in "The Amazing Mr. Williams" (1939), the Lupe Velez comedy "The Girl From Mexico" ...

Filmography

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The Seven Year Itch (1955)

The Stooge (1953)

Sailor Beware (1952)

Chief bos'n mate

Meet Danny Wilson (1952)

Gobs and Gals (1952)

Cuban Fireball (1951)

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Room Service (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Gallstones At The Plaza

Room Service (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Not Dead, Just Dying!

Biography

Donald MacBride was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. MacBride kickstarted his acting career in various films such as "Room Service" (1938) with Groucho Marx, "The Gracie Allen Murder Case" (1939) with Gracie Allen and "The Flying Irishman" (1939) with Douglas Corrigan. He also appeared in "The Amazing Mr. Williams" (1939), the Lupe Velez comedy "The Girl From Mexico" (1939) and "Twelve Crowded Hours" (1939). His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects like "The Invisible Woman" (1941), "You'll Never Get Rich" (1941) and the Joan Blondell comedy sequel "Topper Returns" (1941). He also appeared in "The Glass Key" (1942). In the latter half of his career, he tackled roles in "Blonde Alibi" (1946), the comedy "Little Giant" (1946) with Bud Abbott and "The Dark Corner" (1946). He also appeared in the comedy "The Dark Horse" (1946) with Phillip Terry and the Bud Abbott comedy "The Time of Their Lives" (1946). MacBride last acted in the comedic adaptation "The Seven Year Itch" (1955) with Marilyn Monroe. MacBride passed away in June 1957 at the age of 68.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Seven Year Itch (1955)

The Stooge (1953)

Sailor Beware (1952)

Chief bos'n mate

Meet Danny Wilson (1952)

Gobs and Gals (1952)

Cuban Fireball (1951)

Texas Carnival (1951)

Bowery Battalion (1951)

Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)

Bus terminal guard

Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey (1950)

Holiday Rhythm (1950)

The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)

Campus Sleuth (1948)

Inspector Watson

Smart Politics (1948)

The Mayor [Phineas Wharton, Jr./ Phineas Wharton, Sr.]

Jinx Money (1948)

Lt. James Q. Broaderik

The Egg and I (1947)

Buck Privates Come Home (1947)

Good News (1947)

Beat the Band (1947)

[P. Aloysius] Duff

Joe Palooka in the Knockout (1947)

The Fabulous Joe (1947)

Little Giant (1946)

Pullman conductor

Girl on the Spot (1946)

Inspector Gleason

Blonde Alibi (1946)

Inspector Carmichael

The Brute Man (1946)

Captain Donnelly

The Dark Horse (1946)

"Honest" John Rooney

The Dark Corner (1946)

The Time of Their Lives (1946)

The Killers (1946)

She Gets Her Man (1945)

Hold That Blonde (1945)

The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)

Police Chief MacGregor

Penthouse Rhythm (1945)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)

Dennis Kavanaugh

Out of This World (1945)

Doll Face (1945)

The Doughgirls (1944)

Practically Yours (1944)

A Stranger in Town (1943)

Vinnie Z[ephyr] Blaxton

Lady Bodyguard (1943)

Best Foot Forward (1943)

They Got Me Covered (1943)

Juke Girl (1942)

The Glass Key (1942)

A Night to Remember (1942)

Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)

Sergeant Valentine

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942)

Percy Fitzbadden

My Sister Eileen (1942)

Officer Lonigan

Love Crazy (1941)

"Pinky" Grayson

You'll Never Get Rich (1941)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

Inspector Williams

Michael Shayne, Private Detective (1941)

Chief [Captain Peter] Painter

You're in the Army Now (1941)

High Sierra (1941)

Topper Returns (1941)

Rise and Shine (1941)

Louisiana Purchase (1941)

Captain Whitfield

Footlight Fever (1941)

Geoffrey Crandall

Hit Parade of 1941 (1940)

My Favorite Wife (1940)

The Invisible Woman (1940)

The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)

Curtain Call (1940)

Murder over New York (1940)

Inspector Vance

Northwest Passage (Book I--Rogers' Rangers) (1940)

Sergeant McNott

Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939)

The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)

District Attorney [F. X.] Markham

The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)

Lieutenant Bixler

The Flying Irishman (1939)

The Great Man Votes (1939)

Iron Hat McCarthy

Twelve Crowded Hours (1939)

Inspector [Joe] Keller

The Girl and the Gambler (1939)

The Girl from Mexico (1939)

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)

Chief J. J. Kilvaine

Room Service (1938)

Annabel Takes a Tour (1938)

The Misleading Lady (1932)

The Shell Game (1918)

The Fettered Woman (1917)

The Daring of Diana (1916)

Hesper of the Mountains (1916)

Cast (Short)

Nut Guilty (1936)

Shop Talk (1936)

Smoked Hams (1934)

Buzzin' Around (1933)

That Goes Double (1932)

Artistic Temper (1932)

Life Events

Videos

Room Service (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Gallstones At The Plaza Broke Broadway producer Miller (Groucho Marx), buddy Binelli (Chico) and their hick playwright Davis (Frank Albertson) are trying to figure out how to handle their giant hotel bill before opening, joined by pal “Faker” Englund (Harpo), then hitting on the idea to trick enforcer Wagner (Donald MacBride), in Room Service, 1938.

Room Service (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Not Dead, Just Dying! Now looking to avoid arrest and having the play shut down in mid-performance, producer Miller (Groucho Marx), pal Binelli (Chico), and the playwright (Frank Albertson), joined by Faker (Harpo), hatch another scheme to thwart furious financier Wagner (Donald MacBride), with support from Ann Miller, in the only Marx Brothers RKO feature, Room Service, 1938.

Mexican Spitfire Sees A Ghost (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Everything's Gonna Be Honky Tonky Probably just to get star Lupe Velez into the cute maid outfit, she and Leon Errol as Uncle Matt masquerade as servants to nervous Percy (Donald MacBride) and sister (Minna Gombel), to help her husband Denny (Buddy Rogers) save a business deal, in Mexican Spitfire Sees A Ghost, 1942.

Stooge, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) I Got Friends On The Force! The first scene for Jerry Lewis as would-be entertainer Ted, just after we’ve learned that his agent is desperate to unload him, in a comic confrontation with the owner (Donald MacBride) of a diner, in the fifth feature in which Jerry and Dean Martin were top-billed, The Stooge, 1952.

My Favorite Wife (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Are You the Bride? Long-lost and thought-dead Ellen (Irene Dunne) attempts to intercept her newly re-married husband Nick (Cary Grant) as he arrives with Bianca (Gail Patrick) at the same hotel where they honeymooned, with the famous elevator shot, in Leo McCarey's My Favorite Wife, 1940.

My Favorite Wife (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Stranger Than Fiction Nick (Cary Grant) deals with a suspicious hotel clerk (Donald MacBride) while attempting to tell new wife Bianca (Gail Patrick) that his first has re-appeared, in Leo McCarey's My Favorite Wife, 1940.

My Sister Eileen (1942) -- (Movie Cilp) Portugese Merchant Marine Sailors of the Portugese Merchant Marine have followed Ruth (Rosalind Russell) home to Greenwich Village where she and Eileen (Janet Blair) attempt to get them out of the apartment, in My Sister Eileen, 1942.

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