Melbourne MacDowell

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Known For

Acting

Born

1856-11-11

Place of Birth

South River, New Jersey, USA

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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Acting History

1928
Feel My Pulse as Her Uncle Wilberforce
1928
There It Is as Frisbie Family Patriarch
1927
Code of the Cow Country as John Calhoun
1927
Driven from Home
1926
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
1925
Fighting Courage as Kingsley Sr
1925
Savages of the Sea as Daniel Rawley
1925
The Cloud Rider as David Torrence
1924
Geared to Go
1923
A Million to Burn as Mark Mills
1923
Richard the Lion-Hearted
1923
The Wandering Two
1922
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
1921
The Golden Snare as Doug Johnson
1921
The March Hare as Senator Rollins
1921
Outside the Law as Morgan Spencer
1920
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
1919
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
1918
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
1917
Bond of Fear as Judge McClure
1917
The Flame of the Yukon as 'Black Jack' Hovey
1917
Hell Hath No Fury