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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Code of the Cow Country | John Calhoun | 1927-06-19 |
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Driven from Home | 1927-01-15 | |
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The Rainmaker | Bennson | 1926-05-10 |
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The City | Vorhees | 1926-11-14 |
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Behind the Front | Mr. Bartlett-Cooper | 1926-02-22 |
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What Happened to Jones | Mr. Bigbee | 1926-02-08 |
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The Cloud Rider | David Torrence | 1925-02-15 |
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Savages of the Sea | Daniel Rawley | 1925-02-17 |
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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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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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Beyond the Crossroads | David Walton / Truman Breese | 1922-01-27 |
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The Infidel | 'Bully' Haynes | 1922-04-02 |
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He Raised Kane | Kane's father | 1922-12-18 |
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Scandalous Tongues | Jim Bradley | 1922-10-22 |
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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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Outside the Law | Morgan Spencer | 1921-01-06 |
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The Golden Snare | Doug Johnson | 1921-07-10 |
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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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Miss Nobody | Red Gull | 1920-05-01 |
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The Boomerang | Peter Cameron | 1919-05-01 |
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Soldiers of Fortune | Mr. Langham | 1919-11-22 |
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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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A Nine O'Clock Town | Mr. Adler | 1918-07-28 |
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Coals of Fire | James Bradley | 1918-08-26 |
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Playing the Game | Jeremiah Prentiss | 1918-04-22 |
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The Vamp | Mr. Fleming | 1918-07-14 |
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The Claws of the Hun | Godfrey Stanton | 1918-07-08 |
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Love Me | Grant Appleby | 1918-03-18 |
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Wolves of the Rail | Murray Lemantier | 1918-01-01 |
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The Flame of the Yukon | 'Black Jack' Hovey | 1917-07-01 |
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Bond of Fear | Judge McClure | 1917-09-23 |
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Hell Hath No Fury | 1917-03-20 |
