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.
Outside the Law
as Morgan SpencerSilent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks...
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There It Is
as Frisbie Family PatriarchWhen a mysterious figure appears to cause a series of disruptions at the Frisbie Home in New...
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The City
as VorheesThe City is a lost 1926 silent film produced and released by the Fox Film Corporation. It was...
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The Vamp
as Mr. FlemingNancy, a naive young girl who works backstage at a musical-comedy theatre, learns from the...
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The Infidel
as 'Bully' HaynesLola Daintry (MacDonald) is an actress who's mad at the world, and especially ministers, one of...
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Soldiers of Fortune
as Mr. LanghamCivil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron...
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The Rainmaker
as BennsonThe story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he...
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Code of the Cow Country
as John CalhounJim West, foreman of John Calhoun's ranch, falls in love with Helen, the boss's daughter, after...
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Feel My Pulse
as Her Uncle WilberforceA rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a...
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Love Me
as Grant ApplebyIn a Western mining town, millionaire Gordon Appleby meets Maida Madison, a civil engineer, and...
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Nomads of the North
as Duncan McDougallA Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the women he loves.
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Driven from Home
as uncreditedA father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn't approve of. In...
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Behind the Front
as Mr. Bartlett-CooperDuring World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit,...
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What Happened to Jones
as Mr. BigbeeOn the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided...
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Richard the Lion-Hearted
as uncreditedWallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood...
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Miss Nobody
as Red GullA raft carrying a little girl and a dead woman drifts in from a shipwreck to Devil's Island....
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The Cloud Rider
as David TorrenceBruce Torrence is an aviator and member of the secret service. His rival for the hand of Zella...
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Bond of Fear
as Judge McClureWhen stern Judge McClure gets into an argument with his younger brother John, a physical fight...
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Wolves of the Rail
as Murray LemantierSmoky Gap Railroad president Murray Lemantier is fed up with a bandit gang led by Buck Andrade...
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The Golden Snare
as Doug JohnsonSgt. Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the mountains to capture...
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The Flame of the Yukon
as 'Black Jack' HoveyGeorge Fowler arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon...
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Beyond the Crossroads
as David Walton / Truman BreeseWhile James Fordham is away prospecting in Alaska, his wife runs off with Truman Breese. She...
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Modern Husbands
as Jonathan CosgroveWhen wealthy Wall Street stockbroker Stephen Duane neglects his wife Julia for business, she...
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The Claws of the Hun
as Godfrey StantonAn American munitions manufacturer and his son become ensnarled with enemy agents from Germany...
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Forsaking All Others
as Cyrus K. WhartonJealous of her son Oliver's interest in Penelope Mason, Mrs. Newell takes him to a resort where...
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Playing the Game
as Jeremiah PrentissMillionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and...
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