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Stranger
D.S. MacKenna
Voiced by Jay O. Sanders
D.S. MacKenna is a stranger character in RDR1. Voiced by Jay O. Sanders. Affiliations: Silas Spatchcock (employee, formerly), Pericles Tenerton (employee). Mission relationships: 0.
- Role
- Strangers
- Voice actor
- Jay O. Sanders
- Affiliations
- Silas Spatchcock (employee ยท formerly) ยท 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.
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Last verified October 3, 2026