Dan MacDonald

Acting

Dan MacDonald

Born 1934-08-28 · Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada

Dan MacDonald was a Canadian stage, film and television actor, director, producer and narrator.

Acting credits

Ordinary Magic poster
5.6

When his father dies, Jeffrey is sent to live with his aunt Charlotte in Canada. Once there he leads his aunt and his friends in staging, a non-violent hunger strike to try to save his aunt's house from being demolished to make room for a ski resort.

Ordinary Magic

1993

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NR

This short fictional film features the picturesque seaside landscape of Prince Edward Island as the setting for a summer romance between a girl from Winnipeg and a young fisherman from North Rustico, PEI. The young couple visits historic and scenic sites such as Government House in Charlottetown and Cavendish, of Green Gables fame. The film is a classic summertime romance and a nostalgic visit to the delightfully sun-soaked PEI of the past.

Island Romance

1957

The Neptune Factor poster
5.1

When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.

The Neptune Factor

1973

Keanu & Co. poster
NR

A young engineer returns to the home of his parents and computer whiz brother after his promising career abruptly falls apart. A troubled teen struggles to overcome peer pressure and his own criminal impulses when his latest arrest derails the life of his single mother. An intensely jealous boyfriend's spying and scolding ways rapidly escalate to full-blown stalking. Keanu & Co. presents three specials originally directed for the NFB’s Family Crisis Series in 1985 and 1986, restored for the home video market as a single anthology film.

Keanu & Co.

2025

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7.0

This 1973 Canadian TV movie adaptation of DRACULA played on CBC's Purple Playhouse program. Norman Welsh plays the vampire count that resembles Stoker's original vision for the character.

Dracula

1973

The Pathfinder poster
5.4

In this sequel to The Last of the Mohicans, the Pathfinder (Kevin Dillon) defends a British fort under siege during the French and Indian Wars. His Indian father, Chingachgook (Graham Greene), and the lovely Mabel Dunham (Laurie Holden) are swept up in the battle, and the Pathfinder finds himself forced to choose between his father and the woman he loves. The film is based on last of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales."

The Pathfinder

1996

The Dinosaur Hunter poster
6.1

A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.

The Dinosaur Hunter

2000

Lantern Hill poster
8.0

Jane, a young Toronto girl, tries to reunite her estranged parents during the 1930’s, sick of her strict private school and abusive, nasty grandmother.

Lantern Hill

1989

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy poster
5.9

A group of young adults struggle to run the biggest cattle ranch in the world amidst World War II.

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy

1998

The Little Kidnappers poster
5.7

Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach...

The Little Kidnappers

1990

Out of a Job poster
7.0

A young engineer returns to the home of his parents and computer whiz brother after his promising career abruptly falls apart.

Out of a Job

1986

Mr. Nice Guy poster
6.3

A hitman by the name of Mr. Nice Guy is about to be married and his fiancee doesn't know his true profession. On top of that, his future father-in-law has a contract out on him. A zany mafia comedy!

Mr. Nice Guy

1987