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Willet Melbourne MacDowell
Melbourne MacDowell
Acting
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 foun…
Filmography
Movies
Feel My Pulse
as Her Uncle Wilberforce
There It Is
as Frisbie Family Patriarch
Driven from Home
Code of the Cow Country
as John Calhoun
What Happened to Jones?
as Mr. Bigbee
Behind the Front
as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
The Rainmaker
as Bennson
The City
as Vorhees
The Winning Wallop
as Cyrus Barton
The Cloud Rider
as David Torrence