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 Chaney, Nomads of the North and Outside the Law.

Known For

There It Is

as Frisbie Family Patriarch

Outside the Law

as Morgan Spencer

Feel My Pulse

as Her Uncle Wilberforce

Nomads of the North

as Duncan McDougall

What Happened to Jones

as Mr. Bigbee

Behind the Front

as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper

Love Me

as Grant Appleby

Miss Nobody

as Red Gull

Savages of the Sea

as Daniel Rawley

The Cloud Rider

as David Torrence