Melbourne MacDowell
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1856-11-11
Day of Death
1941-02-18 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
South River, New Jersey, USA
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
Acting
(1928)
Feel My Pulse
as Her Uncle Wilberforce
(1928)
There It Is
as Frisbie Family Patriarch
(1927)
(1927)
Code of the Cow Country
as John Calhoun
(1926)
What Happened to Jones
as Mr. Bigbee
(1926)
Behind the Front
as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
(1926)
The City
as Vorhees
(1926)
The Rainmaker
as Bennson
(1925)
Fighting Courage
as Kingsley Sr
(1925)
The Cloud Rider
as David Torrence
(1925)
Savages of the Sea
as Daniel Rawley
(1924)
(1923)
(1923)
(1922)
The Infidel
as 'Bully' Haynes
(1922)
Forsaking All Others
as Cyrus K. Wharton
(1922)
He Raised Kane
as Kane's father
(1922)
Beyond the Crossroads
as David Walton / Truman Breese
(1922)
Scandalous Tongues
as Jim Bradley
(1922)
The Greater Duty
as The Warden
(1921)
Outside the Law
as Morgan Spencer
(1921)
The Golden Snare
as Doug Johnson
(1921)
The March Hare
as Senator Rollins
(1920)
Nomads of the North
as Duncan McDougall
(1920)
The Gift Supreme
as Eliot Vinton
(1920)
Miss Nobody
as Red Gull
(1919)
Modern Husbands
as Jonathan Cosgrove
(1919)
Eve in Exile
as George Armitage
(1919)
Soldiers of Fortune
as Mr. Langham
(1918)
The Vamp
as Mr. Fleming
(1918)
Coals of Fire
as James Bradley
(1918)
Love Me
as Grant Appleby
(1918)
The Claws of the Hun
as Godfrey Stanton
(1918)
Playing the Game
as Jeremiah Prentiss
(1918)
Wolves of the Rail
as Murray Lemantier
(1918)
A Nine O'Clock Town
as Mr. Adler
(1917)
Bond of Fear
as Judge McClure
(1917)
(1917)
The Flame of the Yukon
as 'Black Jack' Hovey