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