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