Birthday
1856/11/11
Day of death
1941/02/18 (84 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
South River, New Jersey, USA
Also know as
Willet 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 Clyd...Read more
(1923) Richard the Lion-Hearted
as ---
(1918) Love Me
as Grant Appleby
(1922) The Infidel
as 'Bully' Haynes
(1926) The Rainmaker
as Bennson
(1918) Playing the Game
as Jeremiah Prentiss
(1919) Soldiers of Fortune
as Mr. Langham
(1927) Driven from Home
as ---
(1922) Forsaking All Others
as Cyrus K. Wharton
(1921) Outside the Law
as Morgan Spencer
(1922) The Greater Duty
as The Warden
(1928) Feel My Pulse
as Her Uncle Wilberforce
(1920) Miss Nobody
as Red Gull
(1926) What Happened to Jones
as Mr. Bigbee
(1918) The Vamp
as Mr. Fleming
(1925) Savages of the Sea
as Daniel Rawley
(1919) Modern Husbands
as Jonathan Cosgrove
(1928) There It Is
as Frisbie Family Patriarch
(1927) Code of the Cow Country
as John Calhoun
(1925) The Cloud Rider
as David Torrence
(1918) The Claws of the Hun
as Godfrey Stanton
(1925) Fighting Courage
as Kingsley Sr
(1917) Hell Hath No Fury
as ---
(1924) Geared to Go
as ---
(1926) Behind the Front
as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
(1926) The City
as Vorhees
(1918) Coals of Fire
as James Bradley
(1920) The Gift Supreme
as Eliot Vinton
(1917) The Flame of the Yukon
as 'Black Jack' Hovey
(1919) Eve in Exile
as George Armitage
(1921) The March Hare
as Senator Rollins
(1918) Wolves of the Rail
as Murray Lemantier
(1920) Nomads of the North
as Duncan McDougall
(1917) Bond of Fear
as Judge McClure
(1922) Beyond the Crossroads
as David Walton / Truman Breese
(1921) The Golden Snare
as Doug Johnson
(1922) He Raised Kane
as Kane's father
(1923) The Wandering Two
as ---
(1922) Scandalous Tongues
as Jim Bradley
(1918) A Nine O'Clock Town
as Mr. Adler