1856-11-11 South River, New Jersey, USA
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.
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Feel My Pulse | Her Uncle Wilberforce | 1928-02-26 |
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There It Is | Frisbie Family Patriarch | 1928-01-01 |
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Driven from Home | 1927-01-15 | |
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Code of the Cow Country | John Calhoun | 1927-06-19 |
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What Happened to Jones? | Mr. Bigbee | 1926-02-08 |
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Behind the Front | Mr. Bartlett-Cooper | 1926-02-22 |
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The City | Vorhees | 1926-11-14 |
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The Rainmaker | Bennson | 1926-05-10 |
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Savages of the Sea | Daniel Rawley | 1925-02-17 |
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The Cloud Rider | David Torrence | 1925-02-15 |
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Speed Mad | John Sanford | 1925-07-15 |
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Fighting Courage | Kingsley Sr | 1925-12-12 |
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Geared to Go | 1924-12-15 | |
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The Love Pirate | Steve Carnan | 1923-11-18 |
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Richard the Lion-Hearted | 1923-10-15 | |
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The Wandering Two | 1923-05-28 | |
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A Million to Burn | Mark Mills | 1923-11-12 |
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The Flaming Hour | John Danby | 1922-12-12 |
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The Infidel | 'Bully' Haynes | 1922-04-02 |
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Beyond the Crossroads | David Walton / Truman Breese | 1922-01-27 |
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The Greater Duty | The Warden | 1922-02-01 |
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Forsaking All Others | Cyrus K. Wharton | 1922-12-10 |
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Scandalous Tongues | Jim Bradley | 1922-10-22 |
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He Raised Kane | Kane's father | 1922-12-18 |
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Confidence | J. D. Sprowl | 1922-09-25 |
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The Golden Snare | Doug Johnson | 1921-07-10 |
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Outside the Law | Morgan Spencer | 1921-01-06 |
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The March Hare | Senator Rollins | 1921-06-27 |
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Nomads of the North | Duncan McDougall | 1920-09-25 |
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The Gift Supreme | Eliot Vinton | 1920-03-30 |
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The Iron Heart | Cyrus K. Moulton | 1920-06-07 |
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King Spruce | John Barrett | 1920-04-18 |
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Miss Nobody | Red Gull | 1920-05-01 |
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All of a Sudden Norma | Emerson Trent | 1919-01-05 |
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The Boomerang | Peter Cameron | 1919-05-01 |
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Modern Husbands | Jonathan Cosgrove | 1919-04-28 |
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Eve in Exile | George Armitage | 1919-12-07 |
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Soldiers of Fortune | Mr. Langham | 1919-11-22 |
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The Lamb and the Lion | Uncle Ben | 1919-03-24 |
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The Keys of the Righteous | Judge Michael Burke | 1918-02-18 |
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The Biggest Show on Earth | Nat Kemp | 1918-04-28 |
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Go West, Young Man | Amos Latham | 1918-12-29 |
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Coals of Fire | James Bradley | 1918-08-26 |
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A Nine O'Clock Town | Mr. Adler | 1918-07-28 |
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The Claws of the Hun | Godfrey Stanton | 1918-07-08 |
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Playing the Game | Jeremiah Prentiss | 1918-04-22 |
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Wolves of the Rail | Murray Lemantier | 1918-01-01 |
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Love Me | Grant Appleby | 1918-03-18 |
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The Vamp | Mr. Fleming | 1918-07-14 |
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Hell Hath No Fury | 1917-03-20 | |
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Bond of Fear | Judge McClure | 1917-09-23 |
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The Flame of the Yukon | 'Black Jack' Hovey | 1917-07-01 |
