Hamilton MacFadden

Known for DirectingBorn 1901-04-26Died 1977-01-01Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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 contract following the 1934 merger with Twentieth Century Pictures. Thereafter he mixed occasional directing jobs with a number of small supporting appearances in films. Later in his career, MacFadden was associate chief of the United States Department of State's international motion picture division.Read more

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The Jones Family in Hollywood

Chicken Wagon Family

Second Hand Wife

Crazy That Way

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6

Young America

Hold That Girl

Trick for Trick

The Fourth Horseman

The Honeymoon's Over

Sharpshooters

Three Legionnaires

She Was a Lady

As Husbands Go

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case

Riders of the Purple Sage

Harmony at Home

Fighting Youth

The Man Who Dared

Their Mad Moment

Shooting High

While New York Sleeps

Cheaters at Play

Charlie Chan Carries On

Are You There?

Inside the Law

The Lady in Question

The Legion of Missing Men

The Reluctant Dragon

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Charlie Chan in Paris

Charlie Chan in Rio

It Can't Last Forever

Charlie Chan in Reno

Sleepers West

Elinor Norton

Dressed to Kill

Oh, for a Man!

The Black Camel

Escape by Night

Tarnished Angel

Stand Up and Cheer!

Sea Racketeers

The Power of God