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