Melbourne MacDowell
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 Clyd...
Known For
Filmography
Feel My Pulse
1928
as Her Uncle Wilberforce
There It Is
1928
as Frisbie Family Patriarch
The Old Code
1928
as Steve MacGregor
Driven from Home
1927
Code of the Cow Country
1927
as John Calhoun
The Rainmaker
1926
as Bennson
What Happened to Jones?
1926
as Mr. Bigbee
Behind the Front
1926
as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
The City
1926
as Vorhees
The Winning Wallop
1926
as Cyrus Barton
Savages of the Sea
1925
as Daniel Rawley
The Cloud Rider
1925
as David Torrence
Fighting Courage
1925
as Kingsley Sr
Speed Mad
1925
as John Sanford
The Patent Leather Pug
1925
Geared to Go
1924
Richard the Lion-Hearted
1923
The Wandering Two
1923
A Million to Burn
1923
as Mark Mills
The Love Pirate
1923
as Steve Carnan
The Infidel
1922
as 'Bully' Haynes
Forsaking All Others
1922
as Cyrus K. Wharton
The Greater Duty
1922
as The Warden
Beyond the Crossroads
1922
as David Walton / Truman Breese
He Raised Kane
1922
as Kane's father
Scandalous Tongues
1922
as Jim Bradley
The Flaming Hour
1922
as John Danby
Confidence
1922
as J. D. Sprowl
Outside the Law
1921
as Morgan Spencer
The March Hare
1921
as Senator Rollins
The Golden Snare
1921
as Doug Johnson
Miss Nobody
1920
as Red Gull
The Gift Supreme
1920
as Eliot Vinton
Nomads of the North
1920
as Duncan McDougall
King Spruce
1920
as John Barrett
The Iron Heart
1920
as Cyrus K. Moulton
Soldiers of Fortune
1919
as Mr. Langham
Modern Husbands
1919
as Jonathan Cosgrove
Eve in Exile
1919
as George Armitage
The Boomerang
1919
as Peter Cameron
All of a Sudden Norma
1919
as Emerson Trent
The Lamb and the Lion
1919
as Uncle Ben
Love Me
1918
as Grant Appleby
Playing the Game
1918
as Jeremiah Prentiss
The Vamp
1918
as Mr. Fleming
The Claws of the Hun
1918
as Godfrey Stanton
Coals of Fire
1918
as James Bradley
Wolves of the Rail
1918
as Murray Lemantier
A Nine O'Clock Town
1918
as Mr. Adler
Go West, Young Man
1918
as Amos Latham
The Biggest Show on Earth
1918
as Nat Kemp
The Keys of the Righteous
1918
as Judge Michael Burke
Tyrant Fear
1918
as James Dermot
Hell Hath No Fury
1917
The Flame of the Yukon
1917
as 'Black Jack' Hovey
Bond of Fear
1917
as Judge McClure