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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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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Fighting Courage | Kingsley Sr | 1925-12-12 |
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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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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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He Raised Kane | Kane's father | 1922-12-18 |
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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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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 March Hare | Senator Rollins | 1921-06-27 |
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The Golden Snare | Doug Johnson | 1921-07-10 |
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The Gift Supreme | Eliot Vinton | 1920-03-30 |
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Nomads of the North | Duncan McDougall | 1920-09-25 |
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Miss Nobody | Red Gull | 1920-05-01 |
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Eve in Exile | George Armitage | 1919-12-07 |
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Modern Husbands | Jonathan Cosgrove | 1919-04-28 |
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Soldiers of Fortune | Mr. Langham | 1919-11-22 |
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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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Love Me | Grant Appleby | 1918-03-18 |
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The Vamp | Mr. Fleming | 1918-07-14 |
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Coals of Fire | James Bradley | 1918-08-26 |
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Wolves of the Rail | Murray Lemantier | 1918-01-01 |
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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 |
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Hell Hath No Fury | 1917-03-20 |
