Wallace Douglas

For the American jurist and politician, see Wallace B. Douglas.

Wallace Stuart Finlayson (15 August 1911 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – 8 August 1990 Coldwaltham, West Sussex, England), known as Wallace Douglas, was a Canadian producer, director and actor.^[1][2]

The son of Robert Barnett Finlayson and Emiline Marcia Bird, his brother, actor Robert Douglas Finlayson, also used the stage name Douglas.^[3]

He married four times, to Pamela Frost, Anne Crawford, Phillippa Avril Kennedy and Peggy Chester.

Douglas was a second lieutenant in the 60th Rifles during the Second World War and was declared missing in action at Calais in 1940.^[4] He was later reported to be a prisoner.^[5]

Selected filmography

• The Love Wager (1933)
• Music Hath Charms (1935)
• Mother, Don't Rush Me (1936)
• The Last Adventurers (1937)
• The Chinese Bungalow (1940)
• Spies of the Air (1940)