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Birthday: Nov 11, 1856
Place of Birth: South River, New Jersey, USA

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.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Richard the Lion-Hearted 1923
Love Me Grant Appleby 1918
The Infidel 'Bully' Haynes 1922
The Rainmaker Bennson 1926
Playing the Game Jeremiah Prentiss 1918
Soldiers of Fortune Mr. Langham 1919
Driven from Home 1927
Forsaking All Others Cyrus K. Wharton 1922
Outside the Law Morgan Spencer 1921
The Greater Duty The Warden 1922
Feel My Pulse Her Uncle Wilberforce 1928
Miss Nobody Red Gull 1920
What Happened to Jones Mr. Bigbee 1926
The Vamp Mr. Fleming 1918
Savages of the Sea Daniel Rawley 1925
Modern Husbands Jonathan Cosgrove 1919
There It Is Frisbie Family Patriarch 1928
Code of the Cow Country John Calhoun 1927
The Cloud Rider David Torrence 1925
The Claws of the Hun Godfrey Stanton 1918
Fighting Courage Kingsley Sr 1925
Hell Hath No Fury 1917
Geared to Go 1924
Behind the Front Mr. Bartlett-Cooper 1926
The City Vorhees 1926
Coals of Fire James Bradley 1918
The Gift Supreme Eliot Vinton 1920
The Flame of the Yukon 'Black Jack' Hovey 1917
Eve in Exile George Armitage 1919
The March Hare Senator Rollins 1921
Wolves of the Rail Murray Lemantier 1918
Nomads of the North Duncan McDougall 1920
Bond of Fear Judge McClure 1917
Beyond the Crossroads David Walton / Truman Breese 1922
The Golden Snare Doug Johnson 1921
He Raised Kane Kane's father 1922
The Wandering Two 1923
Scandalous Tongues Jim Bradley 1922
A Nine O'Clock Town Mr. Adler 1918
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