Melbourne MacDowell
Biography
From Wikipedia He was born Willet Melbourne MacDowell in Little Washington, New Jersey (now South River, New Jersey). MacDowell began appearing in silent films in 1917 by which time he was long a stage veteran. His co-stars were such actors as William S. Hart, Lon Chaney, Charles Ray, Enid Bennett and numerous others. Though he lived until the early 1940s, his film career ended in 1928 with the end of silent films. He returned for one sound film short in 1932, A Fool About Women with Andy Clyde and Vernon Dent. Several films that Melbourne MacDowell appeared in survive today and can be found on DVD, particularly two of his outing with Lon Chaney, Nomads of the North and Outside the Law.
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Movies (47)
Feel My Pulse
as Her Uncle Wilberforce
1928
There It Is
as Frisbie Family Patriarch
1928
Code of the Cow Country
as John Calhoun
1927
Driven from Home
1927
The City
as Vorhees
1926
The Rainmaker
as Bennson
1926
Behind the Front
as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
1926
What Happened to Jones?
as Mr. Bigbee
1926
Fighting Courage
as Kingsley Sr
1925
Speed Mad
as John Sanford
1925
Savages of the Sea
as Daniel Rawley
1925
The Cloud Rider
as David Torrence
1925
Geared to Go
1924
The Love Pirate
as Steve Carnan
1923
A Million to Burn
as Mark Mills
1923
Richard the Lion-Hearted
1923
The Wandering Two
1923
He Raised Kane
as Kane's father
1922
The Flaming Hour
as John Danby
1922
Forsaking All Others
as Cyrus K. Wharton
1922
Scandalous Tongues
as Jim Bradley
1922
The Infidel
as 'Bully' Haynes
1922
The Greater Duty
as The Warden
1922
Beyond the Crossroads
as David Walton / Truman Breese
1922
The Golden Snare
as Doug Johnson
1921
The March Hare
as Senator Rollins
1921
Outside the Law
as Morgan Spencer
1921
Nomads of the North
as Duncan McDougall
1920
Miss Nobody
as Red Gull
1920
King Spruce
as John Barrett
1920
The Gift Supreme
as Eliot Vinton
1920
Eve in Exile
as George Armitage
1919
Soldiers of Fortune
as Mr. Langham
1919
The Boomerang
as Peter Cameron
1919
Modern Husbands
as Jonathan Cosgrove
1919
All of a Sudden Norma
as Emerson Trent
1919
Go West, Young Man
as Amos Latham
1918
Coals of Fire
as James Bradley
1918
A Nine O'Clock Town
as Mr. Adler
1918
The Vamp
as Mr. Fleming
1918
The Claws of the Hun
as Godfrey Stanton
1918
Playing the Game
as Jeremiah Prentiss
1918
Love Me
as Grant Appleby
1918
Wolves of the Rail
as Murray Lemantier
1918
Bond of Fear
as Judge McClure
1917
The Flame of the Yukon
as 'Black Jack' Hovey
1917
Hell Hath No Fury
1917