A former railroad worker Frank McDonald came to Hollywood after a career on the stage as an actorproducerdirector At first hired as a dialogue director McDonald turned out some scripts and in the mid30s began directing Working for almost every studio in Hollywood at one time or another he did a lot of work for Republic grinding out Gene Autry and Roy Rogers westerns and at the PineThomas B unit at Paramount churning out westerns action dramas and war pictures Not entirely comfortable as a director Evelyn Keyes once said Ive never seen anyone as terrified of directing as Frank McDonald he nevertheless turned out more than 100 pictures in his career
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