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Stranger
D.S. MacKenna
Voiced by Jay O. Sanders
D.S. MacKenna is one of the named cast of Red Dead Redemption, working as stranger. The facts below are the ones the wiki records.
Runs a side job off the main story, marked on the map with a question mark.
- Role
- Strangers
- Voice actor
- Jay O. Sanders
- Affiliations
- Silas Spatchcock (employee, formerly), Pericles Tenerton (employee)
Trivia
- โHis name, personality, and pioneering efforts in the film industry appear to be inspired by early filmmaker D.W. Griffith.
- โThere is a glitch that after the player finishes his quest, he will be sitting, whittling the wood he is holding, but sitting in the air about 2 feet from the stool.
- โThe Western United States has always been a favorite spot for filmmakers in the 1910s, due to the all-year-round sunny weather. By 1915, Los Angeles produced the majority of American movies, but before then it was New York.
- โHe is the only Stranger from Redemption to give the player a Survivor mission in Undead Nightmare.
- โHis name is a play on "Deus ex Machina".
- โEven if the Retcher the player retrieves for him in his Undead Nightmare mission is female, he will still refer to it as a male.
- โIt's also extremely likely that the character is a spoof of Daniel Day-Lewis' character Daniel Plainview, given his mannerisms, way of speaking, and the fact that he's found in Plainview (in Undead Nightmare), and of Day-Lewis himself due to D.S MacKenna being devoted to film-making to the point of killing himself. He shares this trait with Clyde Garrison and Barney Nugent.
- โHe appears to share the same eyes and facial features of the Strange Man from the "I Know You" Stranger mission, apart from the mustache.
- โIf killed and looted he will have $4.
View on Red Dead Wiki โ
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Last verified September 13, 2026