Acting

Melbourne MacDowell

Born 1856-11-11

South River, New Jersey, USA

Department: Acting

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.

1918

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Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (56 titles)

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