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.
Filmography
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The Old Code
1928
as Steve MacGregor
Feel My Pulse
1928
as Her Uncle Wilberforce
There It Is
1928
as Frisbie Family Patriarch
Code of the Cow Country
1927
as John Calhoun
Driven from Home
1927
The City
1926
as Vorhees
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The Winning Wallop
1926
as Cyrus Barton
The Rainmaker
1926
as Bennson
Behind the Front
1926
as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
What Happened to Jones?
1926
as Mr. Bigbee
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Fighting Courage
1925
as Kingsley Sr
The Patent Leather Pug
1925
Speed Mad
1925
as John Sanford
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Savages of the Sea
1925
as Daniel Rawley
The Cloud Rider
1925
as David Torrence
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Geared to Go
1924
The Love Pirate
1923
as Steve Carnan
A Million to Burn
1923
as Mark Mills
Richard the Lion-Hearted
1923
The Wandering Two
1923
He Raised Kane
1922
as Kane's father
The Flaming Hour
1922
as John Danby
Forsaking All Others
1922
as Cyrus K. Wharton
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Scandalous Tongues
1922
as Jim Bradley