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
- 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
- The Rainmaker as Bennson
- The City as Vorhees
- What Happened to Jones? as Mr. Bigbee
- Behind the Front as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
1925
- Fighting Courage as Kingsley Sr
- The Cloud Rider as David Torrence
- Savages of the Sea as Daniel Rawley
1924
1923
- Richard the Lion-Hearted
- The Wandering Two
- A Million to Burn as Mark Mills
1922
- Scandalous Tongues as Jim Bradley
- Beyond the Crossroads as David Walton / Truman Breese
- Forsaking All Others as Cyrus K. Wharton
- He Raised Kane as Kane's father
- The Infidel as 'Bully' Haynes
- The Flaming Hour as John Danby
- 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
- Nomads of the North as Duncan McDougall
- Miss Nobody as Red Gull
- King Spruce as John Barrett
- The Gift Supreme as Eliot Vinton
1919
- The Boomerang as Peter Cameron
- Modern Husbands as Jonathan Cosgrove
- Soldiers of Fortune as Mr. Langham
- Eve in Exile as George Armitage
- All of a Sudden Norma as Emerson Trent
1918
- Love Me as Grant Appleby
- The Vamp as Mr. Fleming
- A Nine O'Clock Town as Mr. Adler
- Playing the Game as Jeremiah Prentiss
- The Claws of the Hun as Godfrey Stanton
- Wolves of the Rail as Murray Lemantier
- Go West, Young Man as Amos Latham
- Coals of Fire as James Bradley
1917
- Bond of Fear as Judge McClure
- The Flame of the Yukon as 'Black Jack' Hovey
- Hell Hath No Fury