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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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 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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Richard the Lion-Hearted | 1923-10-15 | |
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The Wandering Two | 1923-05-28 | |
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The Love Pirate | Steve Carnan | 1923-11-18 |
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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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Forsaking All Others | Cyrus K. Wharton | 1922-12-10 |
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The Greater Duty | The Warden | 1922-02-01 |
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Beyond the Crossroads | David Walton / Truman Breese | 1922-01-27 |
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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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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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Miss Nobody | Red Gull | 1920-05-01 |
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King Spruce | John Barrett | 1920-04-18 |
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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 Boomerang | Peter Cameron | 1919-05-01 |
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All of a Sudden Norma | Emerson Trent | 1919-01-05 |
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The Lamb and the Lion | Uncle Ben | 1919-03-24 |
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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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The Keys of the Righteous | Judge Michael Burke | 1918-02-18 |
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The Vamp | Mr. Fleming | 1918-07-14 |
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Playing the Game | Jeremiah Prentiss | 1918-04-22 |
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Go West, Young Man | Amos Latham | 1918-12-29 |
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The Biggest Show on Earth | Nat Kemp | 1918-04-28 |
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The Claws of the Hun | Godfrey Stanton | 1918-07-08 |
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Wolves of the Rail | Murray Lemantier | 1918-01-01 |
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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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Love Me | Grant Appleby | 1918-03-18 |
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Hell Hath No Fury | 1917-03-20 | |
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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 |
