Jack MacBryde

{{Short description|American stage and radio actor}}

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John N. MacBryde (1883–1966) was an American stage and radio actor. He is best known as the original voice of the Old Ranger on the radio series Death Valley Days (1930-1940s).{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22Death+Valley+Days,+western%22+%22Jack+MacBryde%22&pg=PA195 |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |pages=195–196 |edition=Revised |access-date=2019-10-11}}

MacBryde's other roles on radio included:

• The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall - Sergeant McCloud{{cite book |last1=Cox |first1=Jim |title=Radio Crime Fighters: More Than 300 Programs from the Golden Age |date=June 14, 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-1227-0 |page=18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gLzwCQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Jack+MacBryde%22&pg=PA18 |access-date=March 7, 2024 |language=en}}
• Amanda of Honeymoon Hill - Joe Dyke{{cite book |last1=Cox |first1=Jim |title=The A to Z of American Radio Soap Operas |date=July 17, 2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6349-1 |page=26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQiurxgEDkIC&dq=%22Jack+MacBryde%22&pg=PA26 |access-date=March 7, 2024 |language=en}}
• The Eno Crime Club - Danny Cassidy{{r|Dunning|page1=232}}

He also performed in vaudeville and acted on stage with a stock theater company headed by Pierre Watkin in Sioux City, Iowa.{{cite magazine |date=June 4, 1927 |page=24 |title=Dramatic Stock Notes |magazine=Billboard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zZrVfkUfCngC&dq=%22Jack+MacBryde%22&pg=RA4-PA24 |accessdate=March 7, 2024 }}

MacBryde was married to Dorothy Redding.