Norval MacGregor
{{short description|American actor}}
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Norval MacGregor (April 3, 1862 – November 21, 1933) was an American producer, director, and actor in silent films and theater.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f45c867|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701060631/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f45c867|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 1, 2020|title=Norval Macgregor|website=BFI}} He directed some 88 films, acted in 13, and produced many others.
He was a native of River Falls, Wisconsin.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ldsfilm.com/docu/HundredYears.html|title=One Hundred Years of Mormonism (1913)|website=www.ldsfilm.com}}
He was on officer of the Motion Picture Directors Association, served as its treasurer, and in 1919 was on the reception committee for the Motion Picture Directors ball.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShfkkJFnzpEC&dq=Norval+MacGregor&pg=PA113|title=William Desmond Taylor: A Dossier|first=Bruce|last=Long|date=January 1, 1991|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9781461674344|via=Google Books}}
The University of Washington Libraries have a photo of him.{{Cite web|url=http://seattletheatrehistory.org/photograph-record/norval-mcgregor-0|title=Norval McGregor | Seattle Theatre History|website=seattletheatrehistory.org}}
Selected filmography
=Producer=
- Jimmmie the Porter (1914) by Edwin Ray Coffin
- The Jungle Samaritan (1914)
- Low Financier (1914)
- Newsboy Tenor (1914)
- Harbor of Love (1914)
- Muff (1914)
- Oh! Look Who's Here! (1914)
- Tonsorial Leopard Tamer (1914)
- You Can Never Tell (1914)
- At the Transfer Corner (1914)
- Cupid Turns the Tables (1914)
- Mysterious Black Box (1914)
- No Wedding Bells for Her (1914)
- Surprise Party (1914){{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EhIDAAAAYAAJ&dq=Norval+MacGregor&pg=PA425|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Works of art...|date=February 25, 1914|publisher=Library of Congress, Copyright Office.|via=Google Books}}
=Director=
- One Hundred Years of Mormonism (1913)
- The Awful Adventures of An Aviator (1915){{Cite web|url=https://letterboxd.com/film/the-awful-adventures-of-an-aviator/|title=The Awful Adventures of An Aviator (1915)|via=letterboxd.com}}
- Colorado (1915 film){{Cite web|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4368/default.html|title=Colorado|first=Hobart|last=Bosworth|date=October 23, 1915|via=memory.loc.gov}}
- Baseball at Mudville (1917)
- Children of Banishment (1919){{Cite web|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4259/default.html|title=Children Of Banishment|first=Mitchell|last=Lewis|date=February 25, 1919|via=memory.loc.gov}}
=Actor=
- The Spoilers (1914)
- The White Scar (1915) as Mackintosh
- The Spirit of '76 (1917){{Cite web|url=http://www.patriotresource.com/thepatriot/otherfilms/spirit.html|title=The Patriot Resource: Other Patriotic Films|website=www.patriotresource.com}}
- The Light of Victory (1919)
- The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1920) as Captain Nathaniel Somers
- A Motion to Adjourn (1921) as Doc Bleeker
- Chain Lightning (1922) as Major Lee Pomeroy
- Courtship of Miles Standish (1923){{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/494921/the-courtship-of-miles-standish|title=The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923) - Overview - TCM.com|website=Turner Classic Movies}} as William Bradford
- The Face on the Bar-Room Floor (1923){{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420071438/https://silenthollywood.com/TheFaceOnTheBarroomFloor1923.html|title=The Face on the Bar-Room Floor, 1923|website=silenthollywood.com}}
- Stepping Lively (1924) as James Pendroy
- The Bowery Bishop (1924) as Mr. Kindly
- Phantom Justice (1924) as Wolfe
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Category:American silent film directors
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Category:20th-century American male actors
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Category:Film directors from Wisconsin
Category:19th-century American actors