MacFarland — Murder on the Blackboard Character Profile

About MacFarland

The school's headmaster who commissions Withers' investigation but acts suspiciously by advising her to leave town and look into the victim's relatives.

Character Facts

Played by

Tully Marshall

Appears in

Murder on the Blackboard (1934)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (4)

• MacFarland — Professional Employer — Louise (Barbara Fritchie)

  School head who employs Louise as a music teacher.

• MacFarland — Professional Employer — Stevens (Bruce Cabot)

  School head who employs Stevens as a faculty member.

• MacFarland — Professional Employer — Jane Davis (Gertrude Michael)

  School head who employs Jane Davis as the school secretary.

• MacFarland — Professional Colleague — Detective Donahue (Edgar Kennedy)

  School administrator who cooperates with law enforcement on the case.

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More characters from Murder on the Blackboard

• Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver)
• Police Insp. Oscar Piper (James Gleason)
• Stevens (Bruce Cabot)
• Detective Smiley North (Regis Toomey)
• Detective Donahue (Edgar Kennedy)
• Jane Davis (Gertrude Michael)
• Dr. Von Immen (Gustav von Seyffertitz)
• Leland (Jackie Searl)
• Otto (as Fredrik Vogeding) (Frederick Vogeding)
• Louise (Barbara Fritchie)
• Diner Counterman (uncredited) (Frank Mills)
• School Boy (uncredited) (Tommy Bupp)