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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7157 |
| Birthday | 1856-11-11 |
| Place of Birth | South River, New Jersey, USA |
| Also Known As | Willet Melbourne MacDowell, |
1923
Richard the Lion-Hearted
0/0
Wallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood the previous year.
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Richard the Lion-Hearted
1918
Love Me
1/2
In a Western mining town, millionaire Gordon Appleby meets Maida Madison, a civil engineer, and proposes. The two marry and return to Philadelphia, wh...
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Love Me
1922
The Infidel
8/1
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The Infidel
1926
The Rainmaker
9/2
The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he l...
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The Rainmaker
1918
Playing the Game
0/0
Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets a job as a ranch-hand. He falls in love with the...
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Playing the Game
1919
Soldiers of Fortune
7/1
Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits in the tiny South American republic of Olancho. Gen...
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Soldiers of Fortune
1927
Driven from Home
7/1
A father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn't approve of. In addition, she also finds herself being lusted after by...
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Driven from Home
1922
Forsaking All Others
7/1
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Forsaking All Others
1921
Outside the Law
6.19/21
Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master....
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Outside the Law
1922
The Greater Duty
0/0
When Bill Hinchley is wrongfully imprisoned his wife, Mary, becomes a schoolteacher out of necessity concealing from the school trustees that she is t...
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The Greater Duty
1928
Feel My Pulse
6.556/9
A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on th...
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Feel My Pulse
1920
Miss Nobody
5.5/2
A raft carrying a little girl and a dead woman drifts in from a shipwreck to Devil's Island. There, a band of thieves and smugglers name the girl Rose...
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Miss Nobody
1926
What Happened to Jones?
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On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies...
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What Happened to Jones?
1918
The Vamp
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The Vamp
1925
Savages of the Sea
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Savages of the Sea
1919
Modern Husbands
9/1
When wealthy Wall Street stockbroker Stephen Duane neglects his wife Julia for business, she consorts with philanderer Bert Brockwell. Finding them in...
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Modern Husbands
1928
There It Is
6.905/21
When a mysterious figure appears to cause a series of disruptions at the Frisbie Home in New York, word goes out to Scotland Yard that the Fuzz-Faced...
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There It Is
1927
Code of the Cow Country
10/1
Jim West, foreman of John Calhoun's ranch, falls in love with Helen, the boss's daughter, after rescuing her from a runaway horse. Her brother, Ted, f...
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Code of the Cow Country
1925
The Cloud Rider
7.5/2
Bruce Torrence is an aviator and member of the secret service. His rival for the hand of Zella Wingate is Juan Lascelles, a drug smuggler. To get rid...
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The Cloud Rider
1918
The Claws of the Hun
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An American munitions manufacturer and his son become ensnarled with enemy agents from Germany during the First World War.
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The Claws of the Hun
1925
Fighting Courage
8/1
Richard Kingsley, son of a financier, trying to aid Marjorie Crenshaw and her sister during a raid on a New York roadhouse, is arrested. His father, e...
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Fighting Courage
1917
Hell Hath No Fury
7/1
Hell Hath No Fury is a silent drama.
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Hell Hath No Fury
1924
Geared to Go
9/1
"Hero is son of owner of taxicab company. Learning of injustice toward independents, he becomes independent driver. Heroine inherits half interest in...
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Geared to Go
1926
Behind the Front
6.2/5
During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not knowing that it's the same pickpocket who stole his...
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Behind the Front
1926
The City
10/1
The City is a lost 1926 silent film produced and released by the Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Roy William Neill and is based on Clyde Fitc...
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The City
1918
Coals of Fire
10/1
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Coals of Fire
1920
The Gift Supreme
7/1
Bradford Vinton falls in love with a girl singer from the slums, but his father makes plans to break the relationship; when the plans fail, he disinhe...
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The Gift Supreme
1917
The Flame of the Yukon
10/1
George Fowler arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon girl, known only as "The Flame," to fleece him, but h...
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The Flame of the Yukon
1919
Eve in Exile
8/1
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Eve in Exile
1921
The March Hare
10/1
Lizbeth Palmer is known as "The March Hare" among her friends, and the daughter of a Los Angeles millionaire, comes to New York with a chaperon to vis...
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The March Hare
1918
Wolves of the Rail
6/1
Smoky Gap Railroad president Murray Lemantier is fed up with a bandit gang led by Buck Andrade constantly holding up his train and getting away with i...
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Wolves of the Rail
1920
Nomads of the North
5.714/7
A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the women he loves.
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Nomads of the North
1917
Bond of Fear
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When stern Judge McClure gets into an argument with his younger brother John, a physical fight ensues in which the judge apparently kills John. In fea...
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Bond of Fear
1922
Beyond the Crossroads
8/1
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Beyond the Crossroads
1921
The Golden Snare
7/1
Sgt. Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the mountains to capture killer Bram Johnson.
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The Golden Snare
1922
He Raised Kane
0/0
Kane, who does not want his father to know he is a fighter, thinking he objects, nearly loses the fight when he sees him at the ringside. In the end,...
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He Raised Kane
1923
The Wandering Two
0/0
13th episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.
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The Wandering Two
1922
Scandalous Tongues
8/1
Nell Bradley, the daughter of a wealthy bootlegger, who is encouraged to improve herself through education by Reverend Charles Alden.
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Scandalous Tongues
1918
A Nine O'Clock Town
0/0
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A Nine O'Clock Town
1919
The Boomerang
0/0
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The Boomerang
1923
A Million to Burn
9/1
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A Million to Burn
1919
All of a Sudden Norma
7/1
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All of a Sudden Norma
1920
King Spruce
9/1
"King Spruce" is personified in John Barrett, lumber magnate of the North woods. His domineering character is shown when his daughter Elva falls in lo...
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King Spruce
1918
Go West, Young Man
0/0
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Go West, Young Man
1922
The Flaming Hour
7/1
Lucille Danby marries Bruce Henderson after her father, John Danby, fires him, but she leaves him when Bruce's quick temper flares at seeing her with...
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The Flaming Hour
1925
Speed Mad
7/1
Bill Sanford (William Fairbanks), a daredevil race-car driver, is abducted by his main competitor Alan Lawson (Lloyd Whitlock) and his henchmen, on th...
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Speed Mad
1923
The Love Pirate
9/1
Steve Carnan, secret owner of a notorious café, while attempting to seduce budding musician Ruth Revere, is shot and killed in a struggle with Ruth's...
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The Love Pirate
1919
The Lamb and the Lion
9/1
A girl known as "Boots," who keeps house for a band of crooks led by her kind guardian, Uncle Ben, called "The Lion," demands that she be allowed to a...
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The Lamb and the Lion
1918
The Biggest Show on Earth
0/0
Raised in a circus company, a young girl finds herself unhappily out of place at an upper class finishing school. She struggles to fit in with the you...
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The Biggest Show on Earth
1918
The Keys of the Righteous
7/1
Mary Manning lives in the Wisconsin woods with her stern old grandfather, an uncle, and her mother who, for eighteen years has daily looked for the re...
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The Keys of the Righteous
1920
The Iron Heart
8/1
Upon her father's death, Esther Regan promises to carry out his wishes that she protect his workers and manage the Regan Steel Mills as well as he. Th...
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The Iron Heart
1922
Confidence
10/1
Bob Mortimer, an unsuccessful traveling salesman, picks up the wrong valise and finds it full of money. This gives him the confidence, which he has pr...
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Confidence
1925
The Patent Leather Pug
8/1
The morning after his engagement party, wealthy young New York playboy Billy Hepburn awakens, battered and bruised, but without any memory of what hap...
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The Patent Leather Pug
1918
Tyrant Fear
0/0
Allaine Grandet lives with her father in the barren land of the north, where women are nothing more than mere chattels. She is sold by her father to J...
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Tyrant Fear
1926
The Winning Wallop
10/1
After Rex leaves his father to follow his dream of being a professional boxer, he becomes the trainer at a women's gym owned by his girlfriend.
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