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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 | There It Is | Frisbie Family Patriarch | 1928-01-01 |
Movie | Feel My Pulse | Her Uncle Wilberforce | 1928-02-26 |
Movie | Code of the Cow Country | John Calhoun | 1927-06-19 |
Movie | Behind the Front | Mr. Bartlett-Cooper | 1926-02-22 |
Movie | What Happened to Jones | Mr. Bigbee | 1926-02-08 |
Movie | The Rainmaker | Bennson | 1926-05-10 |
Movie | The City | Vorhees | 1926-11-14 |
Movie | Fighting Courage | Kingsley Sr | 1925-12-12 |
Movie | Geared to Go | 1924-12-15 | |
Movie | Richard the Lion-Hearted | 1923-10-15 | |
Movie | Beyond the Crossroads | David Walton / Truman Breese | 1922-01-27 |
Movie | The Infidel | 'Bully' Haynes | 1922-04-02 |
Movie | Outside the Law | Morgan Spencer | 1921-01-06 |
Movie | The Golden Snare | Doug Johnson | 1921-07-10 |
Movie | The Gift Supreme | Eliot Vinton | 1920-03-30 |
Movie | Nomads of the North | Duncan McDougall | 1920-09-25 |
Movie | Modern Husbands | Jonathan Cosgrove | 1919-04-28 |
Movie | Eve in Exile | George Armitage | 1919-12-07 |
Movie | Playing the Game | Jeremiah Prentiss | 1918-04-22 |
Movie | Wolves of the Rail | Murray Lemantier | 1918-01-01 |
Movie | Hell Hath No Fury | 1917-03-20 | |
Movie | Bond of Fear | Judge McClure | 1917-09-23 |
Movie | The Flame of the Yukon | 'Black Jack' Hovey | 1917-07-01 |