Melbourne MacDowell

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.

Cast

Richard the Lion-Hearted

Playing the Game

Jeremiah Prentiss

Soldiers of Fortune

Driven from Home

Forsaking All Others

Cyrus K. Wharton

Outside the Law

The Greater Duty

Her Uncle Wilberforce

What Happened to Jones?

Savages of the Sea

Modern Husbands

Jonathan Cosgrove

Frisbie Family Patriarch

Code of the Cow Country

The Cloud Rider

The Claws of the Hun

Godfrey Stanton

Fighting Courage

Hell Hath No Fury

Behind the Front

Mr. Bartlett-Cooper

The Gift Supreme

The Flame of the Yukon

'Black Jack' Hovey

George Armitage

Senator Rollins

Wolves of the Rail

Murray Lemantier

Nomads of the North

Duncan McDougall

Beyond the Crossroads

David Walton / Truman Breese

The Golden Snare

The Wandering Two

Scandalous Tongues

A Nine O'Clock Town

A Million to Burn

All of a Sudden Norma

Go West, Young Man

The Flaming Hour