Joseph MacDonald
Cinematographer · Died May 26, 1968, aged 61
- December 15, 1906
- May 26, 1968 (aged 61)
- Cinematographer
- 55 on MovieCove · 73 credits in all
What are Joseph MacDonald's films like?
Across their 54 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Bonds.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 2 · Earnest 49
A split, not a type: Light 15 · Serious 18 · Dark 21
Grounded 22 · Stylized 30 · Heightened 2
Gentle 11 · Charged 27 · Intense 16
A split, not a type: Steady 29 · Shifting 22 · Whiplash 3
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 39 · Some laughs 4 · Funny 11
Slow burn 18 · Even-paced 35 · Relentless 1
Casual 21 · Engaged 28 · Full focus 5
Easy watch 18 · Affecting 25 · Heavy 11
Resolved 50 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Happy22
- Bittersweet22
- Tragic6
- Ambiguous4
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Joseph MacDonald's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 14 of their 55 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (10).
- Pickup on South Street (1953) · cinematographer · free
- The Gallant Hours (1960) · cinematographer · free
- Taras Bulba (1962) · cinematographer · free
- Where Love Has Gone (1964) · cinematographer · free
- The True Story of Jesse James (1957) · cinematographer · free
- Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964) · cinematographer · free
- Behind Green Lights (1946) · cinematographer · free
- Shock (1946) · cinematographer · free
- Kings of the Sun (1963) · cinematographer · free
- The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961) · cinematographer · free
Subscription and free streaming for Joseph MacDonald's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
73 credits, 55 with a MovieCove page.
Mackenna's Gold(1969)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films
The Sand Pebbles(1966)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Alvarez Kelly(1966)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
Blindfold(1966)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
Mirage(1965)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
The Reward (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1965)
Where Love Has Gone(1964)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Rio Conchos(1964)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
The Carpetbaggers(1964)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
Flight from Ashiya(1964)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
Kings of the Sun(1963)
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
Taras Bulba(1962)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
Walk on the Wild Side(1962)
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
40 Pounds of Trouble(1962)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films
Pepe(1960)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films
The Gallant Hours(1960)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Warlock(1959)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Ten North Frederick (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1958)
The Young Lions(1958)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
A Hatful of Rain(1957)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films
Bigger Than Life(1956)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Hilda Crane (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
Teenage Rebel(1956)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films
House of Bamboo(1955)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
The Racers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1955)
Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all films
Woman's World (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)
Broken Lance(1954)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Hell and High Water(1954)
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
White Witch Doctor (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1953)
Pickup on South Street(1953)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Titanic(1953)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
Niagara(1953)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
O. Henry's Full House(1952)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
What Price Glory(1952)
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
Viva Zapata!(1952)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
As Young as You Feel(1951)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
Fourteen Hours(1951)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
You're in the Navy Now(1951)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Panic in the Streets(1950)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Stella (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1950)
Pinky(1949)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
It Happens Every Spring(1949)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
Down to the Sea in Ships(1949)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
Yellow Sky(1948)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
The Street with No Name(1948)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Call Northside 777(1948)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Moss Rose (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1947)
My Darling Clementine(1946)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
The Dark Corner(1946)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
Behind Green Lights(1946)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
Shock(1946)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
Captain Eddie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1945)
In the Meantime, Darling (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1944)
The Big Noise (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1944)
Wintertime (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1943)
Quiet Please, Murder (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1943)
That Other Woman (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1942)
The Man Who Wouldn't Die (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1942)
The Postman Didn't Ring(1942)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Romance of the Rio Grande (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1941)
Arizona(1940)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Vagabond Lady (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1935)
The Eating of Sin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 69 titles, 68 of them dated from 1935 to 1969.
Biggest box office
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Highest rated
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Most popular right now
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Joseph MacDonald's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 72nd percentile, the median of all 55; across their 54 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 70th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up24
- 50th to 74th22
- 25th to 49th8
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
40 of their 55 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved4
- Crowd Pleaser40
- Broadly Agreed6
- Mixed5
Reviewers score the cinematography 74/100 in their films, across 46 reviewed titles; fans 79, detractors 58. The element that speaks to their work as a cinematographer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Joseph MacDonald's work okay for kids?
Across up to 9 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore and sex & nudity run lighter than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Joseph MacDonald work with?
People who share at least 2 of Joseph MacDonald's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Richard Widmark shares the most, 11.
Directors
- Edward DmytrykShared titles: Alvarez Kelly (1966), Mirage (1965), The Carpetbaggers (1964), Where Love Has Gone (1964), Walk on the Wild Side (1962), Warlock (1959), The Young Lions (1958), Broken Lance (1954)See all 8 shared titles with Edward Dmytryk
- Henry HathawayShared titles: Niagara (1953), O. Henry's Full House (1952), Fourteen Hours (1951), You're in the Navy Now (1951), Down to the Sea in Ships (1949), Call Northside 777 (1948), The Dark Corner (1946)See all 7 shared titles with Henry Hathaway
- J. Lee ThompsonShared titles: Mackenna's Gold (1969), Kings of the Sun (1963), Taras Bulba (1962)See all 3 shared titles with J. Lee Thompson
- Samuel FullerShared titles: House of Bamboo (1955), Hell and High Water (1954), Pickup on South Street (1953)See all 3 shared titles with Samuel Fuller
Writers
- Elliott ArnoldShared titles: Alvarez Kelly (1966), Flight from Ashiya (1964), Kings of the Sun (1963)See all 3 shared titles with Elliott Arnold
- Ben HechtShared titles: Walk on the Wild Side (1962), The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958), O. Henry's Full House (1952)See all 3 shared titles with Ben Hecht
- Philip YordanShared titles: The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958), Broken Lance (1954), Panic in the Streets (1950)See all 3 shared titles with Philip Yordan
- Nunnally JohnsonShared titles: The True Story of Jesse James (1957), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), O. Henry's Full House (1952)See all 3 shared titles with Nunnally Johnson
Actors
- Richard WidmarkShared titles: Alvarez Kelly (1966), Flight from Ashiya (1964), Warlock (1959), Broken Lance (1954), Hell and High Water (1954), Pickup on South Street (1953), O. Henry's Full House (1952), Panic in the Streets (1950), Down to the Sea in Ships (1949), The Street with No Name (1948), Yellow Sky (1948)See all 11 shared titles with Richard Widmark
- Jean PetersShared titles: Broken Lance (1954), Niagara (1953), Pickup on South Street (1953), O. Henry's Full House (1952), Viva Zapata! (1952), As Young as You Feel (1951), It Happens Every Spring (1949)See all 7 shared titles with Jean Peters
- Brad DexterShared titles: Blindfold (1966), Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964), Kings of the Sun (1963), Taras Bulba (1962), House of Bamboo (1955)See all 5 shared titles with Brad Dexter
- DeForest KelleyShared titles: Where Love Has Gone (1964), Warlock (1959), House of Bamboo (1955), The View from Pompey's Head (1955)See all 4 shared titles with DeForest Kelley
Composers and editors
- Alfred NewmanShared titles: Hell and High Water (1954), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), O. Henry's Full House (1952), What Price Glory (1952), Fourteen Hours (1951), Panic in the Streets (1950), Down to the Sea in Ships (1949), Pinky (1949), Call Northside 777 (1948), Yellow Sky (1948)See all 10 shared titles with Alfred Newman
- Dorothy SpencerShared titles: A Guide for the Married Man (1967), The Young Lions (1958), A Hatful of Rain (1957), Broken Lance (1954), What Price Glory (1952), Fourteen Hours (1951), Down to the Sea in Ships (1949), My Darling Clementine (1946)See all 8 shared titles with Dorothy Spencer
- Leigh HarlineShared titles: Warlock (1959), The True Story of Jesse James (1957), Teenage Rebel (1956), House of Bamboo (1955), Broken Lance (1954), Pickup on South Street (1953), It Happens Every Spring (1949), The Postman Didn't Ring (1942)See all 8 shared titles with Leigh Harline
- Cyril J. MockridgeShared titles: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957), As Young as You Feel (1951), You're in the Navy Now (1951), My Darling Clementine (1946), The Dark Corner (1946)See all 5 shared titles with Cyril J. Mockridge
Producers
- Darryl F. ZanuckShared titles: On the Threshold of Space (1956), The View from Pompey's Head (1955), Broken Lance (1954), Viva Zapata! (1952), It Happens Every Spring (1949), Pinky (1949), Call Northside 777 (1948)See all 7 shared titles with Darryl F. Zanuck
- Sol C. SiegelShared titles: Alvarez Kelly (1966), Broken Lance (1954), What Price Glory (1952), Fourteen Hours (1951), Panic in the Streets (1950)See all 5 shared titles with Sol C. Siegel
- Harold HechtShared titles: Flight from Ashiya (1964), Taras Bulba (1962)See all 2 shared titles with Harold Hecht
- Joseph E. LevineShared titles: The Carpetbaggers (1964), Where Love Has Gone (1964)See all 2 shared titles with Joseph E. Levine
