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
- There It Is as Frisbie Family Patriarch
- Feel My Pulse as Her Uncle Wilberforce
- The Old Code as Steve MacGregor
1927
- Code of the Cow Country as John Calhoun
- Driven from Home
1926
- What Happened to Jones? as Mr. Bigbee
- The Rainmaker as Bennson
- The City as Vorhees
- Behind the Front as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
- The Winning Wallop as Cyrus Barton
1925
- Fighting Courage as Kingsley Sr
- The Cloud Rider as David Torrence
- Savages of the Sea as Daniel Rawley
- Speed Mad as John Sanford
- The Patent Leather Pug
1924
1923
- Richard the Lion-Hearted
- The Wandering Two
- A Million to Burn as Mark Mills
- The Love Pirate as Steve Carnan
1922
- Beyond the Crossroads as David Walton / Truman Breese
- Forsaking All Others as Cyrus K. Wharton
- The Infidel as 'Bully' Haynes
- The Greater Duty as The Warden
- The Flaming Hour as John Danby
- He Raised Kane as Kane's father
- Confidence as J. D. Sprowl
- Scandalous Tongues as Jim Bradley
1921
- Outside the Law as Morgan Spencer
- The March Hare as Senator Rollins
- The Golden Snare as Doug Johnson
1920
- Nomads of the North as Duncan McDougall
- Miss Nobody as Red Gull
- King Spruce as John Barrett
- The Iron Heart as Cyrus K. Moulton
- The Gift Supreme as Eliot Vinton
1919
- All of a Sudden Norma as Emerson Trent
- The Lamb and the Lion as Uncle Ben
- The Boomerang as Peter Cameron
- Soldiers of Fortune as Mr. Langham
- Eve in Exile as George Armitage
- Modern Husbands as Jonathan Cosgrove
1918
- The Biggest Show on Earth as Nat Kemp
- Love Me as Grant Appleby
- Go West, Young Man as Amos Latham
- A Nine O'Clock Town as Mr. Adler
- Wolves of the Rail as Murray Lemantier
- The Claws of the Hun as Godfrey Stanton
- The Vamp as Mr. Fleming
- Playing the Game as Jeremiah Prentiss
- Tyrant Fear as James Dermot
- The Keys of the Righteous as Judge Michael Burke
- 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