{{short description|American actor}}
{{more citations needed|date=June 2020}} thumb| '''Norval MacGregor''' (April 3, 1862 – November 21, 1933) was an American producer, director, and actor in silent films and theater.<ref>{{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}}</ref> He directed some 88 films, acted in 13, and produced many others.
He was a native of River Falls, Wisconsin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ldsfilm.com/docu/HundredYears.html|title=One Hundred Years of Mormonism (1913)|website=www.ldsfilm.com}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
The University of Washington Libraries have a photo of him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://seattletheatrehistory.org/photograph-record/norval-mcgregor-0|title=Norval McGregor | Seattle Theatre History|website=seattletheatrehistory.org}}</ref>
==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)<ref>{{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}}</ref>
===Director=== *''One Hundred Years of Mormonism'' (1913) *''The Awful Adventures of An Aviator'' (1915)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://letterboxd.com/film/the-awful-adventures-of-an-aviator/|title=The Awful Adventures of An Aviator (1915)|via=letterboxd.com}}</ref> *''Colorado (1915 film)''<ref>{{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}}</ref> *''Baseball at Mudville'' (1917) *''Children of Banishment'' (1919)<ref>{{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}}</ref>
===Actor=== *''The Spoilers'' (1914) *''The White Scar'' (1915) as Mackintosh *''The Spirit of '76'' (1917)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.patriotresource.com/thepatriot/otherfilms/spirit.html|title=The Patriot Resource: Other Patriotic Films|website=www.patriotresource.com}}</ref> *''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)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/494921/the-courtship-of-miles-standish|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250715202415/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/494921/the-courtship-of-miles-standish|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 15, 2025|title=The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923) - Overview - TCM.com|website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref> as William Bradford *''The Face on the Bar-Room Floor'' (1923)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://silenthollywood.com/TheFaceOnTheBarroomFloor1923.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420071438/https://silenthollywood.com/TheFaceOnTheBarroomFloor1923.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2021-04-20|title=The Face on the Bar-Room Floor, 1923|website=silenthollywood.com}}</ref> *''Stepping Lively'' (1924) as James Pendroy *''The Bowery Bishop'' (1924) as Mr. Kindly *''Phantom Justice'' (1924) as Wolfe
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