Melbourne MacDowell
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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.
Known for
Credits
Confidence (1922)
as J. D. Sprowl
Speed Mad (1925)
as John Sanford
The Biggest Show on Earth (1918)
as Nat Kemp
Feel My Pulse (1928)
as Her Uncle Wilberforce
The Keys of the Righteous (1918)
as Judge Michael Burke
The Golden Snare (1921)
as Doug Johnson
The Flaming Hour (1922)
as John Danby
What Happened to Jones? (1926)
as Mr. Bigbee
Outside the Law (1921)
as Morgan Spencer
Miss Nobody (1920)
as Red Gull
King Spruce (1920)
as John Barrett
Tyrant Fear (1918)
as James Dermot
The Infidel (1922)
as 'Bully' Haynes
The Lamb and the Lion (1919)
as Uncle Ben
All of a Sudden Norma (1919)
as Emerson Trent
The Rainmaker (1926)
as Bennson
Code of the Cow Country (1927)
as John Calhoun
The Flame of the Yukon (1917)
as 'Black Jack' Hovey
The City (1926)
as Vorhees
Go West, Young Man (1918)
as Amos Latham
Fighting Courage (1925)
as Kingsley Sr
Eve in Exile (1919)
as George Armitage
The Love Pirate (1923)
as Steve Carnan
Bond of Fear (1917)
as Judge McClure
The Gift Supreme (1920)
as Eliot Vinton
The Patent Leather Pug (1925)
Actor
Behind the Front (1926)
as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
Nomads of the North (1920)
as Duncan McDougall
A Nine O'Clock Town (1918)
as Mr. Adler
There It Is (1928)
as Frisbie Family Patriarch
Driven from Home (1927)
Actor
The Claws of the Hun (1918)
as Godfrey Stanton
Love Me (1918)
as Grant Appleby
The Vamp (1918)
as Mr. Fleming
Hell Hath No Fury (1917)
Actor
The March Hare (1921)
as Senator Rollins
The Cloud Rider (1925)
as David Torrence
Modern Husbands (1919)
as Jonathan Cosgrove
Savages of the Sea (1925)
as Daniel Rawley
The Winning Wallop (1926)
as Cyrus Barton
A Million to Burn (1923)
as Mark Mills
He Raised Kane (1922)
as Kane's father
Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923)
Actor
Soldiers of Fortune (1919)
as Mr. Langham
The Boomerang (1919)
as Peter Cameron
The Wandering Two (1923)
Actor
Wolves of the Rail (1918)
as Murray Lemantier
Scandalous Tongues (1922)
as Jim Bradley
Geared to Go (1924)
Actor
Coals of Fire (1918)
as James Bradley
Playing the Game (1918)
as Jeremiah Prentiss
The Old Code (1928)
as Steve MacGregor
The Greater Duty (1922)
as The Warden
The Iron Heart (1920)
as Cyrus K. Moulton
Beyond the Crossroads (1922)
as David Walton / Truman Breese
Forsaking All Others (1922)
as Cyrus K. Wharton