
Melbourne MacDowell
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1856-11-11 – 1941-02-18
Place of birth: South River, New Jersey, USA
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.
Known for

Richard the Lion-Hearted
1923
Love Me
1918Grant Appleby
The Infidel
1922'Bully' Haynes
The Rainmaker
1926Bennson
Playing the Game
1918Jeremiah Prentiss
Soldiers of Fortune
1919Mr. Langham
Driven from Home
1927
Forsaking All Others
1922Cyrus K. Wharton
Outside the Law
1921Morgan SpencerThe Greater Duty
1922The Warden
Feel My Pulse
1928Her Uncle Wilberforce
Miss Nobody
1920Red Gull
What Happened to Jones?
1926Mr. Bigbee
The Vamp
1918Mr. FlemingSavages of the Sea
1925Daniel Rawley
Modern Husbands
1919Jonathan Cosgrove
There It Is
1928Frisbie Family Patriarch
Code of the Cow Country
1927John Calhoun
The Cloud Rider
1925David Torrence