Melbourne MacDowell
Born: 1856-11-11 in South River, New Jersey, USA
Died: 1941-02-18
Known For: 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.
Filmography
1928
- The Old Code as Steve MacGregor
- Feel My Pulse as Her Uncle Wilberforce
- There It Is as Frisbie Family Patriarch
1927
- Code of the Cow Country as John Calhoun
- Driven from Home
1926
- What Happened to Jones? as Mr. Bigbee
- Behind the Front as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
- The Winning Wallop as Cyrus Barton
- The City as Vorhees
- The Rainmaker as Bennson
1925
- Speed Mad as John Sanford
- The Patent Leather Pug
- Savages of the Sea as Daniel Rawley
- The Cloud Rider as David Torrence
- Fighting Courage as Kingsley Sr
1924
1923
- Richard the Lion-Hearted
- A Million to Burn as Mark Mills
- The Wandering Two
- The Love Pirate as Steve Carnan
1922
- He Raised Kane as Kane's father
- Forsaking All Others as Cyrus K. Wharton
- The Flaming Hour as John Danby
- Confidence as J. D. Sprowl
- The Infidel as 'Bully' Haynes
- Scandalous Tongues as Jim Bradley
- Beyond the Crossroads as David Walton / Truman Breese
- The Greater Duty as The Warden
1921
- Outside the Law as Morgan Spencer
- The Golden Snare as Doug Johnson
- The March Hare as Senator Rollins
1920
- King Spruce as John Barrett
- Nomads of the North as Duncan McDougall
- Miss Nobody as Red Gull
- The Gift Supreme as Eliot Vinton
- The Iron Heart as Cyrus K. Moulton
1919
- All of a Sudden Norma as Emerson Trent
- Eve in Exile as George Armitage
- The Lamb and the Lion as Uncle Ben
- The Boomerang as Peter Cameron
- Soldiers of Fortune as Mr. Langham
- Modern Husbands as Jonathan Cosgrove
1918
- The Keys of the Righteous as Judge Michael Burke
- Tyrant Fear as James Dermot
- The Claws of the Hun as Godfrey Stanton
- A Nine O'Clock Town as Mr. Adler
- Go West, Young Man as Amos Latham
- The Biggest Show on Earth as Nat Kemp
- Wolves of the Rail as Murray Lemantier
- Love Me as Grant Appleby
- Playing the Game as Jeremiah Prentiss
- Coals of Fire as James Bradley
- The Vamp as Mr. Fleming
1917
- Hell Hath No Fury
- The Flame of the Yukon as 'Black Jack' Hovey
- Bond of Fear as Judge McClure