Tiernan macbride biography of donald

          Sean MacBride won the Nobel Peace Prize in , while Tiernan became a highly respected film-maker whose name is enshrined in the Irish Film....

          Donald MacBride

          American actor (1893–1957)

          Donald Hugh MacBride (June 23, 1893 – June 21, 1957) was an American character actor on stage, in films, and on television who launched his career as a teenage singer (making several recordings in 1907) in vaudeville and went on to be an actor in New York.

          Biography

          Donald MacBride was born 1893 in Brooklyn, New York.[1]

          MacBride appeared in nearly 140 films between 1914 and 1955.

          Don was retired from the U. S. Navy and was an asbestos insulator for Local Along with his mother, he is survived by 3 daughters: Sherry.

        1. Don was retired from the U. S. Navy and was an asbestos insulator for Local Along with his mother, he is survived by 3 daughters: Sherry.
        2. MacBride was an able guerrilla fighter and a good organiser and became OC of the company at the beginning of and then head of an Active Service Unit (ASU).
        3. Sean MacBride won the Nobel Peace Prize in , while Tiernan became a highly respected film-maker whose name is enshrined in the Irish Film.
        4. He was the champion of peace and freedom and justice everywhere, the opponent of racism and colonialism and apartheid and nuclear weapons.
        5. In today's blog from the IFI Irish Film Archive's Tiernan MacBride library we look at other Irish language productions that promote our native tongue with style.

          6. His year of birth is given variously as 1889 or 1893 in the standard reference books.[1]

          Motion pictures

          Beginning in 1930, like many New York-based, stage-trained actors, he found work at the Paramount, Vitaphone, and Educational studios, all of which had East Coast branches.

          He is clearly visible as a crowd extra welcoming Groucho Marx in the Paramount feature Animal Crackers. Speaking roles in short subjects followed, establishing MacBride as a comic tough guy or villain opposite Tom Howard, Shemp Howard, Buster Keaton, and