
Melbourne MacDowell
Acting
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
1928Feel My Pulse
Her Uncle Wilberforce
1928There It Is
Frisbie Family Patriarch
1927Driven from Home
1927Code of the Cow Country
John Calhoun
1926The Rainmaker
Bennson
1926What Happened to Jones?
Mr. Bigbee
1926Behind the Front
Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
1926The City
Vorhees
1925The Cloud Rider
David Torrence
1925Speed Mad
John Sanford
1923Richard the Lion-Hearted
1923The Wandering Two
1923A Million to Burn
Mark Mills
1923The Love Pirate
Steve Carnan
1922The Infidel
'Bully' Haynes
1922Forsaking All Others
Cyrus K. Wharton
1922Beyond the Crossroads
David Walton / Truman Breese
1922He Raised Kane
Kane's father
1922The Flaming Hour
John Danby
1922Confidence
J. D. Sprowl
1921Outside the Law
Morgan Spencer
1921The March Hare
Senator Rollins
1921The Golden Snare
Doug Johnson
1920Miss Nobody
Red Gull