
Acting
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.

Code of the Cow Country
1927

Miss Nobody
1920

The Patent Leather Pug
1925

All of a Sudden Norma
1919

Speed Mad
1925

The Keys of the Righteous
1918

Go West, Young Man
1918

What Happened to Jones?
1926

The Biggest Show on Earth
1918

The Lamb and the Lion
1919

Richard the Lion-Hearted
1923

King Spruce
1920

The Claws of the Hun
1918

Wolves of the Rail
1918

Nomads of the North
1920

Feel My Pulse
1928

Behind the Front
1926

Forsaking All Others
1922

The Golden Snare
1921

Outside the Law
1921

Beyond the Crossroads
1922

The Flaming Hour
1922

The Flame of the Yukon
1917

The Infidel
1922

The Iron Heart
1920

The Vamp
1918

There It Is
1928

The March Hare
1921

A Million to Burn
1923

He Raised Kane
1922

Soldiers of Fortune
1919

The Love Pirate
1923

Bond of Fear
1917

The Gift Supreme
1920

The City
1926

A Nine O'Clock Town
1918