
Acting
Born November 11, 1856 · South River, New Jersey, USA
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
1928

There It Is
1928

Code of the Cow Country
1927

Driven from Home
1927

The City
1926

The Rainmaker
1926

Behind the Front
1926

What Happened to Jones?
1926
Fighting Courage
1925
The Patent Leather Pug
1925

Speed Mad
1925
Savages of the Sea
1925

The Cloud Rider
1925
Geared to Go
1924

The Love Pirate
1923

A Million to Burn
1923

Richard the Lion-Hearted
1923

The Wandering Two
1923

He Raised Kane
1922

The Flaming Hour
1922

Forsaking All Others
1922
Scandalous Tongues
1922

Confidence
1922

The Infidel
1922
The Greater Duty
1922

Beyond the Crossroads
1922

The Golden Snare
1921

The March Hare
1921

Outside the Law
1921

Nomads of the North
1920

The Iron Heart
1920

Miss Nobody
1920

King Spruce
1920

The Gift Supreme
1920
Eve in Exile
1919

Soldiers of Fortune
1919

The Boomerang
1919

Modern Husbands
1919

The Lamb and the Lion
1919

All of a Sudden Norma
1919

Go West, Young Man
1918
Coals of Fire
1918

A Nine O'Clock Town
1918

The Vamp
1918

The Claws of the Hun
1918

The Biggest Show on Earth
1918

Playing the Game
1918

Love Me
1918

The Keys of the Righteous
1918

Wolves of the Rail
1918

Bond of Fear
1917

The Flame of the Yukon
1917
Hell Hath No Fury
1917