Melbourne MacDowell
Acting • Born 1856-11-11 – Died 1941-02-18
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.
Filmography
52 credits
Richard the Lion-Hearted
Movie • 1923
Love Me
Movie • 1918
Grant Appleby
The Infidel
Movie • 1922
'Bully' Haynes
The Rainmaker
Movie • 1926
Bennson
Playing the Game
Movie • 1918
Jeremiah Prentiss
Soldiers of Fortune
Movie • 1919
Mr. Langham
Driven from Home
Movie • 1927
Forsaking All Others
Movie • 1922
Cyrus K. Wharton
Outside the Law
Movie • 1921
Morgan Spencer
The Greater Duty
Movie • 1922
The Warden
Feel My Pulse
Movie • 1928
Her Uncle Wilberforce
Miss Nobody
Movie • 1920
Red Gull
What Happened to Jones?
Movie • 1926
Mr. Bigbee
The Vamp
Movie • 1918
Mr. Fleming
Savages of the Sea
Movie • 1925
Daniel Rawley
Modern Husbands
Movie • 1919
Jonathan Cosgrove
There It Is
Movie • 1928
Frisbie Family Patriarch
Code of the Cow Country
Movie • 1927
John Calhoun
The Cloud Rider
Movie • 1925
David Torrence
The Claws of the Hun
Movie • 1918
Godfrey Stanton
Fighting Courage
Movie • 1925
Kingsley Sr
Hell Hath No Fury
Movie • 1917
Geared to Go
Movie • 1924
Behind the Front
Movie • 1926
Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
The City
Movie • 1926
Vorhees
Coals of Fire
Movie • 1918
James Bradley
The Gift Supreme
Movie • 1920
Eliot Vinton
The Flame of the Yukon
Movie • 1917
'Black Jack' Hovey
Eve in Exile
Movie • 1919
George Armitage
The March Hare
Movie • 1921
Senator Rollins
Wolves of the Rail
Movie • 1918
Murray Lemantier
Nomads of the North
Movie • 1920
Duncan McDougall
Bond of Fear
Movie • 1917
Judge McClure
Beyond the Crossroads
Movie • 1922
David Walton / Truman Breese
The Golden Snare
Movie • 1921
Doug Johnson
He Raised Kane
Movie • 1922
Kane's father
The Wandering Two
Movie • 1923
Scandalous Tongues
Movie • 1922
Jim Bradley
A Nine O'Clock Town
Movie • 1918
Mr. Adler
The Boomerang
Movie • 1919
Peter Cameron
A Million to Burn
Movie • 1923
Mark Mills
All of a Sudden Norma
Movie • 1919
Emerson Trent
King Spruce
Movie • 1920
John Barrett
Go West, Young Man
Movie • 1918
Amos Latham
The Flaming Hour
Movie • 1922
John Danby
Speed Mad
Movie • 1925
John Sanford
The Love Pirate
Movie • 1923
Steve Carnan
The Lamb and the Lion
Movie • 1919
Uncle Ben
The Biggest Show on Earth
Movie • 1918
Nat Kemp
The Keys of the Righteous
Movie • 1918
Judge Michael Burke
The Iron Heart
Movie • 1920
Cyrus K. Moulton
Confidence
Movie • 1922
J. D. Sprowl