Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 11, 1856
Died
Feb 18, 1941
Place of Birth
South River, New Jersey, USA
Credits
56 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Old Code
Steve MacGregor
Feel My Pulse
Her Uncle Wilberforce
There It Is
Frisbie Family Patriarch
Code of the Cow Country
John Calhoun
Driven from Home
The City
Vorhees
The Winning Wallop
Cyrus Barton
The Rainmaker
Bennson
Behind the Front
Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
What Happened to Jones?
Mr. Bigbee
Fighting Courage
Kingsley Sr
The Patent Leather Pug
Speed Mad
John Sanford
Savages of the Sea
Daniel Rawley
The Cloud Rider
David Torrence
Geared to Go
The Love Pirate
Steve Carnan
A Million to Burn
Mark Mills
Richard the Lion-Hearted
The Wandering Two
He Raised Kane
Kane's father
The Flaming Hour
John Danby
Forsaking All Others
Cyrus K. Wharton
Scandalous Tongues
Jim Bradley
Confidence
J. D. Sprowl
The Infidel
'Bully' Haynes
The Greater Duty
The Warden
Beyond the Crossroads
David Walton / Truman Breese
The Golden Snare
Doug Johnson
The March Hare
Senator Rollins
Outside the Law
Morgan Spencer
Nomads of the North
Duncan McDougall
The Iron Heart
Cyrus K. Moulton
Miss Nobody
Red Gull
King Spruce
John Barrett
The Gift Supreme
Eliot Vinton
Eve in Exile
George Armitage
Soldiers of Fortune
Mr. Langham
The Boomerang
Peter Cameron
Modern Husbands
Jonathan Cosgrove
The Lamb and the Lion
Uncle Ben
All of a Sudden Norma
Emerson Trent
Go West, Young Man
Amos Latham
Coals of Fire
James Bradley
A Nine O'Clock Town
Mr. Adler
The Vamp
Mr. Fleming
The Claws of the Hun
Godfrey Stanton
Tyrant Fear
James Dermot
The Biggest Show on Earth
Nat Kemp
Playing the Game
Jeremiah Prentiss