Melbourne MacDowell
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1856-11-11 (85 years old)
Deathday
1941-02-18
Place of Birth
South River, New Jersey, USA
Also known As
Willet Melbourne MacDowell
Melbourne MacDowell
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 ...
Acting
1918
as Grant Appleby
1922
as 'Bully' Haynes
1926
as Bennson
1918
as Jeremiah Prentiss
1919
as Mr. Langham
1927
1922
as Cyrus K. Wharton
1921
as Morgan Spencer
1922
as The Warden
1928
as Her Uncle Wilberforce
1920
as Red Gull
1926
as Mr. Bigbee
1918
as Mr. Fleming
1925
as Daniel Rawley
1919
as Jonathan Cosgrove
1928
as Frisbie Family Patriarch
1927
as John Calhoun
1925
as David Torrence
1918
as Godfrey Stanton
1925
as Kingsley Sr
1924
1926
as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
1926
as Vorhees
1918
as James Bradley
1920
as Eliot Vinton
1917
as 'Black Jack' Hovey
1919
as George Armitage
1921
as Senator Rollins
1918
as Murray Lemantier
1920
as Duncan McDougall
1917
as Judge McClure
1922
as David Walton / Truman Breese
1921
as Doug Johnson
1922
as Kane's father
1922
as Jim Bradley
1918
as Mr. Adler
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