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

Outside the Law

Behind the Front

The City

The March Hare

Nomads of the North

The Love Pirate

Driven from Home

What Happened to Jones?

All Movies (56)

• The Old Code1928 · as Steve MacGregor
• Feel My Pulse1928 · as Her Uncle Wilberforce
• There It Is1928 · as Frisbie Family Patriarch
• Code of the Cow Country1927 · as John Calhoun
• Driven from Home1927
• The City1926 · as Vorhees
• The Winning Wallop1926 · as Cyrus Barton
• The Rainmaker1926 · as Bennson
• Behind the Front1926 · as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
• What Happened to Jones?1926 · as Mr. Bigbee
• Fighting Courage1925 · as Kingsley Sr
• The Patent Leather Pug1925
• Speed Mad1925 · as John Sanford
• Savages of the Sea1925 · as Daniel Rawley
• The Cloud Rider1925 · as David Torrence
• Geared to Go1924
• The Love Pirate1923 · as Steve Carnan
• A Million to Burn1923 · as Mark Mills
• Richard the Lion-Hearted1923
• The Wandering Two1923
• He Raised Kane1922 · as Kane's father
• The Flaming Hour1922 · as John Danby
• Forsaking All Others1922 · as Cyrus K. Wharton
• Scandalous Tongues1922 · as Jim Bradley
• Confidence1922 · as J. D. Sprowl
• The Infidel1922 · as 'Bully' Haynes
• The Greater Duty1922 · as The Warden
• Beyond the Crossroads1922 · as David Walton / Truman Breese
• The Golden Snare1921 · as Doug Johnson
• The March Hare1921 · as Senator Rollins
• Outside the Law1921 · as Morgan Spencer
• Nomads of the North1920 · as Duncan McDougall
• The Iron Heart1920 · as Cyrus K. Moulton
• Miss Nobody1920 · as Red Gull
• King Spruce1920 · as John Barrett
• The Gift Supreme1920 · as Eliot Vinton
• Eve in Exile1919 · as George Armitage
• Soldiers of Fortune1919 · as Mr. Langham
• The Boomerang1919 · as Peter Cameron
• Modern Husbands1919 · as Jonathan Cosgrove
• The Lamb and the Lion1919 · as Uncle Ben
• All of a Sudden Norma1919 · as Emerson Trent
• Go West, Young Man1918 · as Amos Latham
• Coals of Fire1918 · as James Bradley
• A Nine O'Clock Town1918 · as Mr. Adler
• The Vamp1918 · as Mr. Fleming
• The Claws of the Hun1918 · as Godfrey Stanton
• Tyrant Fear1918 · as James Dermot
• The Biggest Show on Earth1918 · as Nat Kemp
• Playing the Game1918 · as Jeremiah Prentiss
• Love Me1918 · as Grant Appleby
• The Keys of the Righteous1918 · as Judge Michael Burke
• Wolves of the Rail1918 · as Murray Lemantier
• Bond of Fear1917 · as Judge McClure
• The Flame of the Yukon1917 · as 'Black Jack' Hovey
• Hell Hath No Fury1917