Melbourne MacDowell
Birthday: 1856-11-11
Deathday: 1941-02-18
Birthplace: South River, New Jersey, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
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.
Credits
| Year | Title | Character | |
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1928-02-26 | Feel My Pulse | Her Uncle Wilberforce |
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1928-01-01 | There It Is | Frisbie Family Patriarch |
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1927-06-19 | Code of the Cow Country | John Calhoun |
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1927-01-15 | Driven from Home | |
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1926-11-14 | The City | Vorhees |
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1926-05-10 | The Rainmaker | Bennson |
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1926-02-22 | Behind the Front | Mr. Bartlett-Cooper |
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1926-02-08 | What Happened to Jones | Mr. Bigbee |
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1925-12-12 | Fighting Courage | Kingsley Sr |
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1925-02-17 | Savages of the Sea | Daniel Rawley |
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1925-02-15 | The Cloud Rider | David Torrence |
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1924-12-15 | Geared to Go | |
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1923-10-15 | Richard the Lion-Hearted | |
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1923-05-28 | The Wandering Two | |
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1922-12-18 | He Raised Kane | Kane's father |
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1922-12-10 | Forsaking All Others | Cyrus K. Wharton |
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1922-10-22 | Scandalous Tongues | Jim Bradley |
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1922-04-02 | The Infidel | 'Bully' Haynes |
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1922-02-01 | The Greater Duty | The Warden |
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1922-01-27 | Beyond the Crossroads | David Walton / Truman Breese |
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1921-07-10 | The Golden Snare | Doug Johnson |
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1921-06-27 | The March Hare | Senator Rollins |
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1921-01-06 | Outside the Law | Morgan Spencer |
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1920-09-25 | Nomads of the North | Duncan McDougall |
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1920-05-01 | Miss Nobody | Red Gull |
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1920-03-30 | The Gift Supreme | Eliot Vinton |
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1919-12-07 | Eve in Exile | George Armitage |
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1919-11-22 | Soldiers of Fortune | Mr. Langham |
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1919-04-28 | Modern Husbands | Jonathan Cosgrove |
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1918-08-26 | Coals of Fire | James Bradley |
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1918-07-28 | A Nine O'Clock Town | Mr. Adler |
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1918-07-14 | The Vamp | Mr. Fleming |
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1918-07-08 | The Claws of the Hun | Godfrey Stanton |
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1918-04-22 | Playing the Game | Jeremiah Prentiss |
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1918-03-18 | Love Me | Grant Appleby |
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1918-01-01 | Wolves of the Rail | Murray Lemantier |
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1917-09-23 | Bond of Fear | Judge McClure |
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1917-07-01 | The Flame of the Yukon | 'Black Jack' Hovey |
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1917-03-20 | Hell Hath No Fury |