Melbourne MacDowell
November 11, 1856 (168 years old) in South River, New Jersey, USA
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
Credits
- 1928 · Feel My Pulse as Her Uncle Wilberforce
- 1928 · There It Is as Frisbie Family Patriarch
- 1927 · Code of the Cow Country as John Calhoun
- 1927 · Driven from Home as
- 1926 · The City as Vorhees
- 1926 · The Rainmaker as Bennson
- 1926 · Behind the Front as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
- 1926 · What Happened to Jones as Mr. Bigbee
- 1925 · Fighting Courage as Kingsley Sr
- 1925 · Savages of the Sea as Daniel Rawley
- 1925 · The Cloud Rider as David Torrence
- 1924 · Geared to Go as
- 1923 · Richard the Lion-Hearted as
- 1923 · The Wandering Two as
- 1922 · He Raised Kane as Kane's father
- 1922 · Forsaking All Others as Cyrus K. Wharton
- 1922 · Scandalous Tongues as Jim Bradley
- 1922 · The Infidel as 'Bully' Haynes
- 1922 · The Greater Duty as
- 1922 · Beyond the Crossroads as David Walton / Truman Breese
- 1921 · The Golden Snare as Doug Johnson
- 1921 · The March Hare as Senator Rollins
- 1921 · Outside the Law as Morgan Spencer
- 1920 · Nomads of the North as Duncan McDougall
- 1920 · Miss Nobody as Red Gull
- 1920 · The Gift Supreme as Eliot Vinton
- 1919 · Eve in Exile as George Armitage
- 1919 · Soldiers of Fortune as Mr. Langham
- 1919 · Modern Husbands as Jonathan Cosgrove
- 1918 · Coals of Fire as James Bradley
- 1918 · The Vamp as Mr. Fleming
- 1918 · The Claws of the Hun as Godfrey Stanton
- 1918 · Playing the Game as Jeremiah Prentiss
- 1918 · Love Me as Grant Appleby
- 1918 · Wolves of the Rail as Murray Lemantier
- 1917 · Bond of Fear as Judge McClure
- 1917 · The Flame of the Yukon as 'Black Jack' Hovey
- 1917 · Hell Hath No Fury as