Francis McDonald

2 credits on HibingeTV

American actor, born 1891. A prolific character actor in films and television, often cast as villains in Westerns and serials, he played Dan Hammond in Zorro's Black Whip (1944). He died in 1968.

Acted In

5.51946·1h 19mPD

Western, Music

When Gabby Kendrick refuses to breed his prize stallion Golden Sovereign to Roy Rogers' mare, fate intervenes — the horses run off, a rustler's bullet kills the Sovereign, and Roy is blamed and jailed. A year later he returns with Trigger, the Sovereign's son, determined to clear his name. Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and Gabby Hayes star in the film Republic used to explain how the smartest horse in the movies came to Roy. It is in the public domain after its copyright was not renewed.

Western · Music

My Pal Trigger

1946 - as Storekeeper

Acted In (TV Series)

6.51944PD

Western, Action

Zorro's Black Whip is a 1944 Republic Pictures serial in twelve chapters, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Wallace Grissell. Despite the title, the hero is not Zorro but a masked woman called the Black Whip, played by Linda Stirling. She is Barbara Meredith, a newspaper proprietress in the Idaho Territory who takes up the mask of her murdered brother to fight a villain trying to block statehood and seize control of the region. Republic could not license the Zorro character itself but used the name to capitalize on the 1940 Fox remake of The Mark of Zorro. The serial is in the public domain.

Western · Action · Serial

Zorro's Black Whip

1944 - as Dan Hammond