Melbourne MacDowell

Born: 1856-11-11, South River, New Jersey, USA

Died: 1941-02-18

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.

Filmography

• Speed Mad (1925)
• King Spruce (1920)
• Miss Nobody (1920)
• The Biggest Show on Earth (1918)
• The Gift Supreme (1920)
• He Raised Kane (1922)
• The Wandering Two (1923)
• All of a Sudden Norma (1919)
• The Lamb and the Lion (1919)
• The Patent Leather Pug (1925)
• A Million to Burn (1923)
• Bond of Fear (1917)
• The Keys of the Righteous (1918)
• The Golden Snare (1921)
• The March Hare (1921)
• Go West, Young Man (1918)
• What Happened to Jones? (1926)
• Behind the Front (1926)
• Modern Husbands (1919)
• The Boomerang (1919)
• Nomads of the North (1920)
• The Flaming Hour (1922)
• Beyond the Crossroads (1922)
• Code of the Cow Country (1927)
• The Cloud Rider (1925)
• Playing the Game (1918)
• Driven from Home (1927)
• Wolves of the Rail (1918)
• Feel My Pulse (1928)
• Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923)