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.
Movies & TV Shows
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Outside the Law (1921) — Morgan Spencer
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There It Is (1928) — Frisbie Family Patriarch
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Feel My Pulse (1928) — Her Uncle Wilberforce
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Nomads of the North (1920) — Duncan McDougall
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What Happened to Jones? (1926) — Mr. Bigbee
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Behind the Front (1926) — Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
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Love Me (1918) — Grant Appleby
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The Rainmaker (1926) — Bennson
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Miss Nobody (1920) — Red Gull
- Savages of the Sea (1925) — Daniel Rawley
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The Cloud Rider (1925) — David Torrence
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The Infidel (1922) — 'Bully' Haynes
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Soldiers of Fortune (1919) — Mr. Langham
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Driven from Home (1927)
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Forsaking All Others (1922) — Cyrus K. Wharton
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Modern Husbands (1919) — Jonathan Cosgrove
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Code of the Cow Country (1927) — John Calhoun
- Fighting Courage (1925) — Kingsley Sr
- Hell Hath No Fury (1917)
- Geared to Go (1924)
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The City (1926) — Vorhees
- Coals of Fire (1918) — James Bradley
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The Gift Supreme (1920) — Eliot Vinton
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The Flame of the Yukon (1917) — 'Black Jack' Hovey
- Eve in Exile (1919) — George Armitage
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The March Hare (1921) — Senator Rollins
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Wolves of the Rail (1918) — Murray Lemantier
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Beyond the Crossroads (1922) — David Walton / Truman Breese
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The Golden Snare (1921) — Doug Johnson
- Scandalous Tongues (1922) — Jim Bradley
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A Million to Burn (1923) — Mark Mills
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All of a Sudden Norma (1919) — Emerson Trent
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King Spruce (1920) — John Barrett
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The Flaming Hour (1922) — John Danby
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Speed Mad (1925) — John Sanford
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The Love Pirate (1923) — Steve Carnan
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The Lamb and the Lion (1919) — Uncle Ben
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The Keys of the Righteous (1918) — Judge Michael Burke
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The Iron Heart (1920) — Cyrus K. Moulton
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Confidence (1922) — J. D. Sprowl