Career
He is perhaps best known as villain Frank Miller in. On May 7, 1957, he played Dull Knife, a Cheyenne chief, in the episode "Dull Knife Strikes for Freedom" on the American Broadcasting Company/Desilu western television series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, with Hugh O"Brian in the title role as deputy marshal Wyatt Earp. In the story line Dull Knife leads his Indians from their reservation in Oklahoma Territory to their previously promised homeland in Montana.
McDonald also played the uncredited colonel in the movie Battleground (1949) who delivered the "Nuts" reply to the German officers demanding that the American forces surrender.
The unknown colonel in reality was Colonel Joseph West. Harper, commanding officer of the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
