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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The Old Code | Steve MacGregor | 1928-11-14 |
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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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Behind the Front | Mr. Bartlett-Cooper | 1926-02-22 |
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The Winning Wallop | Cyrus Barton | 1926-10-08 |
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The City | Vorhees | 1926-11-14 |
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Fighting Courage | Kingsley Sr | 1925-12-12 |
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The Patent Leather Pug | 1925-11-23 | |
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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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Geared to Go | 1924-12-15 | |
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A Million to Burn | Mark Mills | 1923-11-12 |
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The Love Pirate | Steve Carnan | 1923-11-18 |
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The Wandering Two | 1923-05-28 | |
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Richard the Lion-Hearted | 1923-10-15 | |
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Scandalous Tongues | Jim Bradley | 1922-10-22 |
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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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Confidence | J. D. Sprowl | 1922-09-25 |
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He Raised Kane | Kane's father | 1922-12-18 |
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The Infidel | 'Bully' Haynes | 1922-04-02 |
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The Flaming Hour | John Danby | 1922-12-12 |
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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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The Iron Heart | Cyrus K. Moulton | 1920-06-07 |
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King Spruce | John Barrett | 1920-04-18 |
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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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All of a Sudden Norma | Emerson Trent | 1919-01-05 |
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Modern Husbands | Jonathan Cosgrove | 1919-04-28 |
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The Lamb and the Lion | Uncle Ben | 1919-03-24 |
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The Boomerang | Peter Cameron | 1919-05-01 |
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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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Love Me | Grant Appleby | 1918-03-18 |
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The Biggest Show on Earth | Nat Kemp | 1918-04-28 |
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The Keys of the Righteous | Judge Michael Burke | 1918-02-18 |
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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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Tyrant Fear | James Dermot | 1918-04-29 |
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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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The Claws of the Hun | Godfrey Stanton | 1918-07-08 |
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The Vamp | Mr. Fleming | 1918-07-14 |
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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 | |
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Bond of Fear | Judge McClure | 1917-09-23 |
