Russell Mack (November 11, 1892 – June 1, 1972) was an American vaudeville performer in the 1910s and a stage actor, film director, and producer in the 1920s and 1930s.
Born Edward Russell Mahoney in Oneonta, New York, Mack was raised in Providence, Rhode Island, where he worked first as a reporter and then as a theatre manager.
After a minor role in a show by Oscar Hammerstein II, Joan of Arkansaw, which changed its name to Always You, in the week before it opened on Broadway on January 5, 1920,[3] he was featured in The Gingham Girl (1923–24).
When Pathé and RKO merged in 1931, he would direct one film for them, Lonely Wives, before signing with Universal Pictures.
[7] In 1942, Mack returned to the East Coast, where he and his second wife, Bobette, managed the Mosque Theater in Newark, New Jersey.