Hamilton MacFadden

Biography

Hamilton MacFadden (April 26, 1901 – January 1, 1977) was an American actor, screenwriter and film director. MacFadden's parents were Rev. Robert A. MacFadden and Edith Hamilton MacFadden. His father died in 1909, leaving his mother to support herself and four children. In 1928, she became the first woman to file papers to run for governor of Massachusetts. MacFadden was a 1925 graduate of Harvard University. Soon after graduating, he became producer of the American Theatre Company, which presented plays for 10 weeks in the Boston area. The project was backed by Michael Strange, a writer who made her professional stage debut in the productions. He also served as director of the Community Arts Association in Santa Barbara, California, and the Theatre Guild School of Acting in New York. Plays that MacFadden produced on Broadway included Gods of the Lightning and La Gringa. After starting out on Broadway in the 1920s, he moved into filmmaking in Hollywood. During the early 1930s he was a contract director at Fox. McFadden made a number of films for them including several early entries in the Charlie Chan series such as Charlie Chan Carries On (1931). He was released from his Fox co…

Directed

1. The Black Camel (1931) — Director
2. Charlie Chan in Paris (1935) — Director
3. Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) — Director
4. Escape by Night (1937) — Director
5. It Can't Last Forever (1937) — Director
6. Charlie Chan Carries On (1931) — Director
7. Oh, for a Man! (1930) — Director
8. Inside the Law (1942) — Director
9. The Legion of Missing Men (1937) — Director
10. Sea Racketeers (1937) — Director
11. Fighting Youth (1935) — Director
12. The Man Who Dared (1933) — Director
13. Their Mad Moment (1931) — Director
14. Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933) — Director
15. Elinor Norton (1934) — Director
16. Second Hand Wife (1933) — Director
17. She Was a Lady (1934) — Director
18. Crazy That Way (1930) — Director
19. Riders of the Purple Sage (1931) — Director
20. Trick for Trick (1933) — Director
21. Three Legionnaires (1937) — Director
22. As Husbands Go (1934) — Director
23. Harmony at Home (1930) — Director
24. Hold That Girl (1934) — Director
25. The Fourth Horseman (1932) — Director
26. Cheaters at Play (1932) — Director
27. Are You There? (1930) — Director
28. The Power of God (1942) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Reluctant Dragon (1941) — Hamilton MacFadden
2. The Black Camel (1931) — Val Martino (uncredited)
3. The Lady in Question (1940) — Guard (uncredited)
4. Dressed to Kill (1941) — Reporter
5. Charlie Chan in Reno (1939) — Night Clerk
6. Sleepers West (1941)
7. Charlie Chan in Rio (1941) — Bill Kellogg
8. Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940) — Reporter
9. Tarnished Angel (1938) — Reverend Summers
10. Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6 (2004) — Hamilton MacFadden (archive footage) (uncredited)
11. Shooting High (1940) — J. Wallace Rutledge
12. The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939) — Townsend - Director
13. Sharpshooters (1938) — Bowman
14. While New York Sleeps (1938) — Pete - Reporter
15. Chicken Wagon Family (1939) — Auctioneer
16. Young America (1942) — Jim Benson