- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJoseph Farrell MacDonald
- Nickname
- J. Farrel MacDonald
- Height1.78 m
- J. Farrell MacDonald was born on April 14, 1875 in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), My Darling Clementine (1946) and The Great Lie (1941). He was married to Edith Bostwick. He died on August 2, 1952 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- SpouseEdith Bostwick(1920 - December 3, 1943) (her death)
- Attended Yale University, where he played football, graduating in 1903 with a B.A. and LL.B. He also attended Stewarttown University in Stewarttown, Ontario, Canada, where he earned an LL.D. He studied law and earned graduate and mining certificates, eventually joining a government geological survey through Mexico, Colorado and into the Rockies.
- Often acted in westerns whenever not playing Irish cops.
- Was the principal director of L. Frank Baum's Oz Film Manufacturing Co.
- Began as a singer in minstrel shows. In films with Carl Laemmle in New York from 1911.
- Character player, usually stern of demeanor, who appeared in hundreds of films, many of them westerns, from 1915-1951. He was long associated with the director John Ford.
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