Known for 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.
1926
as Mr. Bigbee
1921
as Morgan Spencer
1918
as Mr. Fleming
1917
as 'Black Jack' Hovey
1918
as Murray Lemantier
1920
as Duncan McDougall
1927
1926
as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
1928
as Her Uncle Wilberforce
1926
as Bennson
1918
as James Dermot
1918
as Mr. Adler
1918
as Grant Appleby
1922
as Cyrus K. Wharton
1922
as 'Bully' Haynes
1925
as Kingsley Sr
1919
as George Armitage
1919
as Mr. Langham
1920
as Eliot Vinton
1926
as Vorhees