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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.
Birth Name
William Melbourne McDowell
Born
Saturday, 22 November 1856
Died
Tuesday, 18 February 1941
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Old Code | Steve MacGregor | 1928 |
| Call of the Night | Dent Wade | 1928 |
| Feel My Pulse | Her Uncle Wilberforce | 1928 |
| There It Is | Frisbie Family Patriarch | 1928 |
| Code of the Cow Country | John Calhoun | 1927 |
| Stick to Your Story | Colonel Miles | 1926 |
| The City | Vorhees | 1926 |
| The Outlaw Express | Sheriff | 1926 |
| The Winning Wallop | Cyrus Barton | 1926 |
| The Rainmaker | Bennson | 1926 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Old Code | Steve MacGregor | 1928 |
| Call of the Night | Dent Wade | 1928 |
| Feel My Pulse | Her Uncle Wilberforce | 1928 |
| There It Is | Frisbie Family Patriarch | 1928 |
| Code of the Cow Country | John Calhoun | 1927 |
| Stick to Your Story | Colonel Miles | 1926 |
| The City | Vorhees | 1926 |
| The Outlaw Express | Sheriff | 1926 |
| The Winning Wallop | Cyrus Barton | 1926 |
| The Rainmaker | Bennson | 1926 |
| Behind the Front | Mr. Bartlett-Cooper | 1926 |
| What Happened to Jones? | Mr. Bigbee | 1926 |
| The Patent Leather Pug | 1926 | |
| Fighting Courage | Kingsley Sr | 1925 |
| Sky's the Limit | Charles Hamilton | 1925 |
| Geared to Go | 1924 | |
| Virtue's Revolt | Family Lawyer | 1924 |
| Diamonds Adrift | James Bellamy | 1923 |
| The Ghost Patrol | Commissioner Manning | 1923 |
| The Flaming Hour | John Danby | 1922 |
| The Bootlegger's Daughter | Jim Bradley | 1922 |
| Beyond the Crossroads | David Walton / Truman Breese | 1921 |
| The Golden Snare | Doug Johnson | 1921 |
| Outside the Law | Morgan Spencer | 1921 |
| Nomads of the North | Duncan McDougall | 1920 |
| King Spruce | John Barrett | 1920 |
| The Gift Supreme | Eliot Vinton | 1920 |
| Miss Nobody | Red Gull | 1920 |
| Eve in Exile | George Armitage | 1919 |
| A Girl in Bohemia | Police Inspector | 1919 |
| Modern Husbands | Jonathan Cosgrove | 1919 |
| The Lamb and the Lion | Uncle Ben | 1919 |
| The Long Lane's Turning | The Judge | 1919 |
| All of a Sudden Norma | Emerson Trent | 1919 |
| The Boomerang | Peter Cameron | 1919 |
| Those Who Pay | Steve McNott | 1918 |
| Coals of Fire | James Bradley | 1918 |
| A Nine O'Clock Town | Mr. Adler | 1918 |
| The Vamp | Mr. Fleming | 1918 |
| The Claws of the Hun | Godfrey Stanton | 1918 |
| The Biggest Show on Earth | Nat Kemp | 1918 |
| Tyrant Fear | James Dermot | 1918 |
| Playing the Game | Jeremiah Prentiss | 1918 |
| The Keys of the Righteous | Judge Michael Burke | 1918 |
| They're Off | Daniel Hackett | 1917 |
| Hell Hath No Fury | 1917 | |
| Richard the Lion-Hearted | 1911 |
