
Melbourne MacDowell
Acting
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.

Feel My Pulse
Her Uncle Wilberforce

There It Is
Frisbie Family Patriarch

Code of the Cow Country
John Calhoun

Driven from Home

The City
Vorhees

The Rainmaker
Bennson

Behind the Front
Mr. Bartlett-Cooper

What Happened to Jones?
Mr. Bigbee
Fighting Courage
Kingsley Sr
The Patent Leather Pug

Speed Mad
John Sanford
Savages of the Sea
Daniel Rawley

The Cloud Rider
David Torrence
Geared to Go

The Love Pirate
Steve Carnan

A Million to Burn
Mark Mills

Richard the Lion-Hearted

The Wandering Two

He Raised Kane
Kane's father

The Flaming Hour
John Danby

Forsaking All Others
Cyrus K. Wharton
Scandalous Tongues
Jim Bradley

Confidence
J. D. Sprowl

The Infidel
'Bully' Haynes
The Greater Duty
The Warden

Beyond the Crossroads
David Walton / Truman Breese

The Golden Snare
Doug Johnson

The March Hare
Senator Rollins

Outside the Law
Morgan Spencer

Nomads of the North
Duncan McDougall

The Iron Heart
Cyrus K. Moulton

Miss Nobody
Red Gull

King Spruce
John Barrett

The Gift Supreme
Eliot Vinton
Eve in Exile
George Armitage

Soldiers of Fortune
Mr. Langham

The Boomerang
Peter Cameron

Modern Husbands
Jonathan Cosgrove

The Lamb and the Lion
Uncle Ben

All of a Sudden Norma
Emerson Trent

Go West, Young Man
Amos Latham
Coals of Fire
James Bradley

A Nine O'Clock Town
Mr. Adler

The Vamp
Mr. Fleming

The Claws of the Hun
Godfrey Stanton

The Biggest Show on Earth
Nat Kemp

Playing the Game
Jeremiah Prentiss

Love Me
Grant Appleby

The Keys of the Righteous
Judge Michael Burke

Wolves of the Rail
Murray Lemantier

Bond of Fear
Judge McClure

The Flame of the Yukon
'Black Jack' Hovey
Hell Hath No Fury







