Melbourne MacDowell
Date of birth: 1856-11-11
Place of birth: South River, New Jersey, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Willet Melbourne MacDowell
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
Richard the Lion-Hearted
1923-10-15
Wallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood the pr
Love Me
1918-03-18
In a Western mining town, millionaire Gordon Appleby meets Maida Madison, a civil engineer, and prop
The Infidel
1922-04-02
Lola Daintry (MacDonald) is an actress who's mad at the world, and especially ministers, one of whom
The Rainmaker
1926-05-10
The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned
Playing the Game
1918-04-22
Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets
Soldiers of Fortune
1919-11-22
Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits i
Driven from Home
1927-01-15
A father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn't approve of. In addit
Forsaking All Others
1922-12-10
Jealous of her son Oliver's interest in Penelope Mason, Mrs. Newell takes him to a resort where he i
Outside the Law
1921-01-06
Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to th
The Greater Duty
1922-02-01
When Bill Hinchley is wrongfully imprisoned his wife, Mary, becomes a schoolteacher out of necessity
Feel My Pulse
1928-02-26
A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front
Miss Nobody
1920-05-01
A raft carrying a little girl and a dead woman drifts in from a shipwreck to Devil's Island. There,
What Happened to Jones?
1926-02-08
On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by th
The Vamp
1918-07-14
Nancy, a naive young girl who works backstage at a musical-comedy theatre, learns from the chorus gi
Savages of the Sea
1925-02-17
A seaman on board a sailing ship battles mutinous crew members, a corrupt millionaire trying to take
Modern Husbands
1919-04-28
When wealthy Wall Street stockbroker Stephen Duane neglects his wife Julia for business, she consort
There It Is
1928-01-01
When a mysterious figure appears to cause a series of disruptions at the Frisbie Home in New York, w
Code of the Cow Country
1927-06-19
Jim West, foreman of John Calhoun's ranch, falls in love with Helen, the boss's daughter, after resc
The Cloud Rider
1925-02-15
Bruce Torrence is an aviator and member of the secret service. His rival for the hand of Zella Winga
The Claws of the Hun
1918-07-08
An American munitions manufacturer and his son become ensnarled with enemy agents from Germany durin
Fighting Courage
1925-12-12
Richard Kingsley, son of a financier, trying to aid Marjorie Crenshaw and her sister during a raid o
Hell Hath No Fury
1917-03-20
Hell Hath No Fury is a silent drama.
Geared to Go
1924-12-15
"Hero is son of owner of taxicab company. Learning of injustice toward independents, he becomes inde
Behind the Front
1926-02-22
During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not kn
The City
1926-11-14
The City is a lost 1926 silent film produced and released by the Fox Film Corporation. It was direct
Coals of Fire
1918-08-26
Pretty young Nell Bradley is the daughter of a saloonkeeper in a "dry" town, and is looked down upon
The Gift Supreme
1920-03-30
Bradford Vinton falls in love with a girl singer from the slums, but his father makes plans to break
The Flame of the Yukon
1917-07-01
George Fowler arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon gir
Eve in Exile
1919-12-07
Society girl Eva Ricardo is sent to a seaside New England village to live with her maiden aunt by he
The March Hare
1921-06-27
Lizbeth Palmer is known as "The March Hare" among her friends, and the daughter of a Los Angeles mil
Wolves of the Rail
1918-01-01
Smoky Gap Railroad president Murray Lemantier is fed up with a bandit gang led by Buck Andrade const
Nomads of the North
1920-09-25
A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the women he loves.
Bond of Fear
1917-09-23
When stern Judge McClure gets into an argument with his younger brother John, a physical fight ensue
Beyond the Crossroads
1922-01-27
While James Fordham is away prospecting in Alaska, his wife runs off with Truman Breese. She manages
The Golden Snare
1921-07-10
Sgt. Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the mountains to capture killer B
He Raised Kane
1922-12-18
Kane, who does not want his father to know he is a fighter, thinking he objects, nearly loses the fi
The Wandering Two
1923-05-28
13th episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.
Scandalous Tongues
1922-10-22
Nell Bradley, the daughter of a wealthy bootlegger, who is encouraged to improve herself through edu
A Nine O'Clock Town
1918-07-28
David Clary runs a sleepy little dry-goods store in a sleepy little town. A vamp from the big city s
The Boomerang
1919-05-01
Millionaire meat packer Peter Cameron, greedy for more money and power, maneuvers an alliance betwee
A Million to Burn
1923-11-12
The owner of a resort hotel promotes Tom Gwynne, a college boy working as a waiter, to manager. As a
All of a Sudden Norma
1919-01-05
Norma Brisbane has a taste for the finer things in life, but learns after her father's suicide that
King Spruce
1920-04-18
"King Spruce" is personified in John Barrett, lumber magnate of the North woods. His domineering cha
Go West, Young Man
1918-12-29
Wealthy Easterner Dick Latham, determined to disprove his father Amos' accusation that he is an idle
The Flaming Hour
1922-12-12
Lucille Danby marries Bruce Henderson after her father, John Danby, fires him, but she leaves him wh