Name
Melbourne MacDowell
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1856-11-11
Deathday
1941-02-18 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
South River, New Jersey, USA
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
- 1923 Richard the Lion-Hearted
- 1918 Love Me as Grant Appleby
- 1922 The Infidel as 'Bully' Haynes
- 1926 The Rainmaker as Bennson
- 1918 Playing the Game as Jeremiah Prentiss
- 1919 Soldiers of Fortune as Mr. Langham
- 1927 Driven from Home
- 1922 Forsaking All Others as Cyrus K. Wharton
- 1921 Outside the Law as Morgan Spencer
- 1922 The Greater Duty as The Warden
- 1928 Feel My Pulse as Her Uncle Wilberforce
- 1920 Miss Nobody as Red Gull
- 1926 What Happened to Jones? as Mr. Bigbee
- 1918 The Vamp as Mr. Fleming
- 1925 Savages of the Sea as Daniel Rawley
- 1919 Modern Husbands as Jonathan Cosgrove
- 1928 There It Is as Frisbie Family Patriarch
- 1927 Code of the Cow Country as John Calhoun
- 1925 The Cloud Rider as David Torrence
- 1918 The Claws of the Hun as Godfrey Stanton
- 1925 Fighting Courage as Kingsley Sr
- 1917 Hell Hath No Fury
- 1924 Geared to Go
- 1926 Behind the Front as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
- 1926 The City as Vorhees
- 1918 Coals of Fire as James Bradley
- 1920 The Gift Supreme as Eliot Vinton
- 1917 The Flame of the Yukon as 'Black Jack' Hovey
- 1919 Eve in Exile as George Armitage
- 1921 The March Hare as Senator Rollins
- 1918 Wolves of the Rail as Murray Lemantier
- 1920 Nomads of the North as Duncan McDougall
- 1917 Bond of Fear as Judge McClure
- 1922 Beyond the Crossroads as David Walton / Truman Breese
- 1921 The Golden Snare as Doug Johnson
- 1922 He Raised Kane as Kane's father
- 1923 The Wandering Two
- 1922 Scandalous Tongues as Jim Bradley
- 1918 A Nine O'Clock Town as Mr. Adler
- 1919 The Boomerang as Peter Cameron
- 1923 A Million to Burn as Mark Mills
- 1919 All of a Sudden Norma as Emerson Trent
- 1920 King Spruce as John Barrett
- 1918 Go West, Young Man as Amos Latham
- 1922 The Flaming Hour as John Danby
- 1925 Speed Mad as John Sanford
- 1923 The Love Pirate as Steve Carnan
- 1919 The Lamb and the Lion as Uncle Ben
- 1918 The Biggest Show on Earth as Nat Kemp
- 1918 The Keys of the Righteous as Judge Michael Burke
- 1920 The Iron Heart as Cyrus K. Moulton
- 1922 Confidence as J. D. Sprowl
- 1925 The Patent Leather Pug
- 1918 Tyrant Fear as James Dermot
- 1926 The Winning Wallop as Cyrus Barton
- 1928 The Old Code as Steve MacGregor
