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Aliases: Willet Melbourne MacDowell

Gender: Male

Place of birth: South River, New Jersey, USA

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Movie Involvements: 24

TV Involvements: 0


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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.

Most Famous Work

Bond of Fear
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Bond of Fear

(1917) Judge McClure
Love Me
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Love Me

(1918) Grant Appleby
Nomads of the North
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Nomads of the North

(1920) Duncan McDougall
The Gift Supreme
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The Gift Supreme

(1920) Eliot Vinton
The Flame of the Yukon
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The Flame of the Yukon

(1917) 'Black Jack' Hovey
Miss Nobody
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Miss Nobody

(1920) Red Gull
Savages of the Sea
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Savages of the Sea

(1925) Daniel Rawley
Fighting Courage
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Fighting Courage

(1925) Kingsley Sr

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1928 Her Uncle Wilberforce
Frisbie Family Patriarch
1927 John Calhoun
N/A
1926 Vorhees
Bennson
Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
Mr. Bigbee
1925 Kingsley Sr
Daniel Rawley
David Torrence
1924 N/A
1923 N/A
N/A
1922 Kane's father
Cyrus K. Wharton
'Bully' Haynes
N/A
David Walton / Truman Breese
1921 Doug Johnson
Senator Rollins
Morgan Spencer
1920 Duncan McDougall
Red Gull
Eliot Vinton
1919 George Armitage
Mr. Langham
Jonathan Cosgrove
1918 James Bradley
Mr. Fleming
Godfrey Stanton
Jeremiah Prentiss
Grant Appleby
Murray Lemantier
1917 Judge McClure
'Black Jack' Hovey
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