Melbourne MacDowell
Birthday: 1856-11-11
Place of Birth: South River, New Jersey, USA
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 found on DVD, particularly two of his outing with Lon Chaney, Nomads of the North and Outside the Law.
Movies
Richard the Lion-Hearted
Wallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood the pr...
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Love Me
In a Western mining town, millionaire Gordon Appleby meets Maida Madison, a civil engineer, and prop...
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The Infidel
Lola Daintry (MacDonald) is an actress who's mad at the world, and especially ministers, one of whom...
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The Rainmaker
The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned...
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Playing the Game
Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets...
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Soldiers of Fortune
Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits i...
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Driven from Home
A father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn't approve of. In addit...
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Forsaking All Others
Jealous of her son Oliver's interest in Penelope Mason, Mrs. Newell takes him to a resort where he i...
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Outside the Law
Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to th...
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The Greater Duty
When Bill Hinchley is wrongfully imprisoned his wife, Mary, becomes a schoolteacher out of necessity...
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Feel My Pulse
A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front ...
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Miss Nobody
A raft carrying a little girl and a dead woman drifts in from a shipwreck to Devil's Island. There, ...
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What Happened to Jones?
On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by th...
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The Vamp
Nancy, a naive young girl who works backstage at a musical-comedy theatre, learns from the chorus gi...
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Savages of the Sea
A seaman on board a sailing ship battles mutinous crew members, a corrupt millionaire trying to take...
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Modern Husbands
When wealthy Wall Street stockbroker Stephen Duane neglects his wife Julia for business, she consort...
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There It Is
When a mysterious figure appears to cause a series of disruptions at the Frisbie Home in New York, w...
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Code of the Cow Country
Jim West, foreman of John Calhoun's ranch, falls in love with Helen, the boss's daughter, after resc...
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The Cloud Rider
Bruce Torrence is an aviator and member of the secret service. His rival for the hand of Zella Winga...
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The Claws of the Hun
An American munitions manufacturer and his son become ensnarled with enemy agents from Germany durin...
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Fighting Courage
Richard Kingsley, son of a financier, trying to aid Marjorie Crenshaw and her sister during a raid o...
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Geared to Go
"Hero is son of owner of taxicab company. Learning of injustice toward independents, he becomes inde...
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Behind the Front
During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not kn...
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The City
The City is a lost 1926 silent film produced and released by the Fox Film Corporation. It was direct...
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Coals of Fire
Pretty young Nell Bradley is the daughter of a saloonkeeper in a "dry" town, and is looked down upon...
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The Gift Supreme
Bradford Vinton falls in love with a girl singer from the slums, but his father makes plans to break...
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The Flame of the Yukon
George Fowler arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon gir...
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Eve in Exile
Society girl Eva Ricardo is sent to a seaside New England village to live with her maiden aunt by he...
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The March Hare
Lizbeth Palmer is known as "The March Hare" among her friends, and the daughter of a Los Angeles mil...
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Wolves of the Rail
Smoky Gap Railroad president Murray Lemantier is fed up with a bandit gang led by Buck Andrade const...
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Nomads of the North
A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the women he loves....
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Bond of Fear
When stern Judge McClure gets into an argument with his younger brother John, a physical fight ensue...
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Beyond the Crossroads
While James Fordham is away prospecting in Alaska, his wife runs off with Truman Breese. She manages...
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The Golden Snare
Sgt. Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the mountains to capture killer B...
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He Raised Kane
Kane, who does not want his father to know he is a fighter, thinking he objects, nearly loses the fi...
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The Wandering Two
13th episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts....
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Scandalous Tongues
Nell Bradley, the daughter of a wealthy bootlegger, who is encouraged to improve herself through edu...
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A Nine O'Clock Town
David Clary runs a sleepy little dry-goods store in a sleepy little town. A vamp from the big city s...
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The Boomerang
Millionaire meat packer Peter Cameron, greedy for more money and power, maneuvers an alliance betwee...
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A Million to Burn
The owner of a resort hotel promotes Tom Gwynne, a college boy working as a waiter, to manager. As a...
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All of a Sudden Norma
Norma Brisbane has a taste for the finer things in life, but learns after her father's suicide that ...
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King Spruce
"King Spruce" is personified in John Barrett, lumber magnate of the North woods. His domineering cha...
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Go West, Young Man
Wealthy Easterner Dick Latham, determined to disprove his father Amos' accusation that he is an idle...
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The Flaming Hour
Lucille Danby marries Bruce Henderson after her father, John Danby, fires him, but she leaves him wh...
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Speed Mad
Bill Sanford (William Fairbanks), a daredevil race-car driver, is abducted by his main competitor Al...
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The Love Pirate
Steve Carnan, secret owner of a notorious café, while attempting to seduce budding musician Ruth Rev...
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