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