Ian MacDonald (born Ulva W. Pippy,[1] June 28, 1914 – April 11, 1978) was an American actor and producer during the 1940s and 1950s.

[1] He taught school for two years in Marysville before he moved to Hollywood, after which he washed dishes at a YMCA and studied drama at the Pasadena Community Playhouse.

[1] MacDonald served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II.

[1] McDonald played the uncredited colonel in the movie Battleground (1949) who delivered the "Nuts" reply to the German officers demanding that the American forces surrender.

On June 17, 1967, in Santa Monica, California, MacDonald married Shirley Kannegaard, a nurse whom he met when he was a patient at Fort Harrison Veterans Hospital.