
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.

Driven from Home
1927

King Spruce
1920

The Patent Leather Pug
1925

The Love Pirate
1923

Speed Mad
1925

Miss Nobody
1920

Outside the Law
1921

The Biggest Show on Earth
1918

Bond of Fear
1917

Forsaking All Others
1922

What Happened to Jones?
1926

The Gift Supreme
1920

Go West, Young Man
1918

The City
1926

The Infidel
1922

The Wandering Two
1923

Feel My Pulse
1928

Behind the Front
1926

The Iron Heart
1920

The Lamb and the Lion
1919

All of a Sudden Norma
1919

Soldiers of Fortune
1919

The Keys of the Righteous
1918

Nomads of the North
1920

The Flaming Hour
1922

The Rainmaker
1926

The Cloud Rider
1925

The Claws of the Hun
1918

He Raised Kane
1922

Playing the Game
1918

Richard the Lion-Hearted
1923

Love Me
1918

Beyond the Crossroads
1922

Code of the Cow Country
1927

The March Hare
1921

A Nine O'Clock Town
1918