Melbourne MacDowell
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
Richard the Lion-Hearted
Grant Appleby
Love Me
'Bully' Haynes
The Infidel
Bennson
The Rainmaker
Jeremiah Prentiss
Playing the Game
Mr. Langham
Soldiers of Fortune
Driven from Home
Cyrus K. Wharton
Forsaking All Others
Morgan Spencer
Outside the Law
The Warden
The Greater Duty
Her Uncle Wilberforce
Feel My Pulse
Red Gull
Miss Nobody
Mr. Bigbee
What Happened to Jones
Mr. Fleming
The Vamp
Daniel Rawley
Savages of the Sea
Jonathan Cosgrove
Modern Husbands
Frisbie Family Patriarch
There It Is
John Calhoun
Code of the Cow Country
David Torrence
The Cloud Rider
Godfrey Stanton
The Claws of the Hun
Kingsley Sr
Fighting Courage
Hell Hath No Fury
Geared to Go
Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
Behind the Front
Vorhees
The City
James Bradley
Coals of Fire
Eliot Vinton
The Gift Supreme
'Black Jack' Hovey
The Flame of the Yukon
George Armitage
Eve in Exile
Senator Rollins
The March Hare
Murray Lemantier
Wolves of the Rail
Duncan McDougall
Nomads of the North
Judge McClure
Bond of Fear
David Walton / Truman Breese
Beyond the Crossroads
Doug Johnson
The Golden Snare
Kane's father
He Raised Kane
The Wandering Two
Jim Bradley
Scandalous Tongues
Mr. Adler
A Nine O'Clock Town
Peter Cameron
The Boomerang
Mark Mills
A Million to Burn
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
41
Gender
Male
Birthday
1856-11-11
Place of Birth
South River, New Jersey, USA
Also Known As
Willet Melbourne MacDowell