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 | Feel My Pulse | Her Uncle Wilberforce | 1928-02-26 |
Movie | There It Is | Frisbie Family Patriarch | 1928-01-01 |
Movie | Code of the Cow Country | John Calhoun | 1927-06-19 |
Movie | What Happened to Jones | Mr. Bigbee | 1926-02-08 |
Movie | Behind the Front | Mr. Bartlett-Cooper | 1926-02-22 |
Movie | The City | Vorhees | 1926-11-14 |
Movie | Fighting Courage | Kingsley Sr | 1925-12-12 |
Movie | Geared to Go | 1924-12-15 | |
Movie | The Infidel | 'Bully' Haynes | 1922-04-02 |
Movie | Forsaking All Others | Cyrus K. Wharton | 1922-12-10 |
Movie | Outside the Law | Morgan Spencer | 1921-01-06 |
Movie | Nomads of the North | Duncan McDougall | 1920-09-25 |
Movie | The Gift Supreme | Eliot Vinton | 1920-03-30 |
Movie | Modern Husbands | Jonathan Cosgrove | 1919-04-28 |
Movie | Eve in Exile | George Armitage | 1919-12-07 |
Movie | Wolves of the Rail | Murray Lemantier | 1918-01-01 |
Movie | The Claws of the Hun | Godfrey Stanton | 1918-07-08 |
Movie | Love Me | Grant Appleby | 1918-03-18 |
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 |