Frank McDonald
Directing
Biography
A former railroad worker, Frank McDonald came to Hollywood after a career on the stage as an actor/producer/director. At first hired as a dialogue director, McDonald turned out some scripts and in the mid-'30s began directing. Working for almost every studio in Hollywood at one time or another, he did a lot of work for Republic, grinding out Gene Autry and Roy Rogers westerns, and at the Pine/Thomas "B" unit at Paramount, churning out westerns, action dramas and war pictures. Not entirely comfortable as a director -Evelyn Keyes once said, "I've never seen anyone as terrified of directing as Frank McDonald" - he nevertheless turned out more than 100 pictures in his career.
On the crew 131
Get Smart
1965
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Four Star Playhouse
1952
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
The Gene Autry Show
1950
McHale's Navy
1962
Flipper
1964
The Whistler
1954
Broken Arrow
1956
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
National Velvet
1960
Sheena: Queen of the Jungle
1955
The Range Rider
1951
Yukon Gold
1952
Ringside
1949
Yellow Fin
1951
Snow Dog
1950
Forgotten Girls
1940
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
1963
Isle of Fury
1936
Okefenokee
1959
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
1994
Fly Away Baby
1937
The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
1952
My Pal Trigger
1946
The Big Tip Off
1955
The Traitor Within
1942
Her Husband's Secretary
1937
Shepherd of the Ozarks
1942
Treasure of Ruby Hills
1955
Song of Arizona
1946
Smart Blonde
1937
Boulder Dam
1936
Thunder Pass
1954
The Matchmaking Marshal
1955
O, My Darling Clementine
1943
Treachery Rides the Range
1936
Father Takes the Air
1951
The Adventurous Blonde
1937
Son of Belle Starr
1953
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936
Mara of the Wilderness
1965
French Leave
1948
The Underwater City
1962
Grand Ole Opry
1940
One Body Too Many
1944
Gambler's Choice
1944
Scared Stiff
1945
Along the Navajo Trail
1945
Hoosier Holiday
1943
Lights of Old Santa Fe
1944
High Explosive
1943
Over the Wall
1938
Mr. Reckless
1948
Wildcat
1942
Tuxedo Junction
1941
Country Fair
1941
Death Goes North
1939
Carolina Moon
1940
Sunset in El Dorado
1945
Jeepers Creepers
1939
Timber Country Trouble
1955
Blondes at Work
1938
Rainbow Over Texas
1946
Dance Charlie Dance
1937
Sea Tiger
1952
Border City Rustlers
1953
Texans Never Cry
1951
The Chicago Kid
1945
Midnight Court
1937
Twilight on the Rio Grande
1947
Marshals in Disguise
1954
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1947
No Hands on the Clock
1941
The Tilted Tenderfoot
1955
Alaska Highway
1943
Yukon Manhunt
1951
The Old Homestead
1942
Village Barn Dance
1940
Tell It to a Star
1945
Linda, Be Good
1947
Reckless Living
1938
Murder by an Aristocrat
1936
Apache Chief
1949
When a Girl's Beautiful
1947
Hit Parade of 1947
1947
Bells of Rosarita
1945
Two Gun Marshal
1953
Flying Blind
1941
Arkansas Judge
1941
Call of the Klondike
1950
The Big Noise
1936
Gun Smugglers
1948
Submarine Alert
1943
Phantom Trails
1955
The Big Sombrero
1949
Under Fiesta Stars
1941
Raymie
1960
Man from Oklahoma
1945
The Yellow Haired Kid
1952
Broadway Hostess
1935
Under Nevada Skies
1946
Northwest Territory
1951
Freshman Year
1938
Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
1940
Timber Queen
1944
Wrecking Crew
1942
Secret of Outlaw Flats
1953
Take It Big
1944
Rancho Grande
1940
Barnyard Follies
1940
Gaucho Serenade
1940
The Purple Gang
1959
The Two Gun Teacher
1954
Six Gun Decision
1953
Love Begins at Twenty
1936
Sierra Passage
1950
Flirting with Fate
1938
Swing Your Partner
1943
Sioux City Sue
1946
13 Lead Soldiers
1948
Trouble on the Trail
1954
Outlaw's Son
1954
They Asked For It
1939
Mountain Rhythm
1943
First Offenders
1939
Sing, Neighbor, Sing
1944
In Old Missouri
1940
Le Imprese di una Spada Leggendaria
1958
Mantelli e spade insanguinate
1959
The Song of a Nation
1936