Melbourne MacDowell
Also Known As: Willet Melbourne MacDowell
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South River, New Jersey, USA
Birthday: November 11, 1856
Deathday: February 18, 1941
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Richard the Lion-Hearted
Overview: Wallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood the previous year.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-15
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Love Me
Overview: In a Western mining town, millionaire Gordon Appleby meets Maida Madison, a civil engineer, and proposes. The two marry and return to Philadelphia, where they are coldly received by Gordon's snobbish family. Gordon's elder brother Mortimer's highbrow sensibilities are particularly offended by Maida's breezy manner, and he determines to break up the marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-18
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The Infidel
Overview: Lola Daintry (MacDonald) is an actress who's mad at the world, and especially ministers, one of whom -- her father -- was so cruel that he drove her mother out of the house. When Bully Haynes (Melbourne MacDonald) wants her help in showing up a group of South Seas missionaries, she's more than happy to assist. But Lola doesn't realize she's being used so that Haynes can gain control over the copra trade from his rival, Cyrus Flint (Robert Ellis).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-02
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The Rainmaker
Overview: The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he lost the power and bet the wrong way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-10
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Playing the Game
Overview: Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets a job as a ranch-hand. He falls in love with the ranch foreman's daughter and complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-22
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Soldiers of Fortune
Overview: Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits in the tiny South American republic of Olancho. General Mendoza, the unscrupulous head of the army, unsuccessfully tries to persuade President Alvarez, and then Clay, to divide the spoils of the contract.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-22
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Driven from Home
Overview: A father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn't approve of. In addition, she also finds herself being lusted after by the sinister owner of an opium den.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-15
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Forsaking All Others
Overview: Jealous of her son Oliver's interest in Penelope Mason, Mrs. Newell takes him to a resort where he is easy prey for designing Enid Morton. After some near-disastrous situations with Enid's suspicious husband, Penelope comes to Oliver's rescue at Mrs. Newell's request.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-10
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Outside the Law
Overview: Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master. But the evil Black Mike Sylva is determined to frame Madden to avenge a mistake from the past…
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-06
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The Greater Duty
Overview: When Bill Hinchley is wrongfully imprisoned his wife, Mary, becomes a schoolteacher out of necessity concealing from the school trustees that she is the wife of a convict. Sneaky Pete, Bill's cellmate, steals a letter from Mary to Bill, and, his term expired, follows Mary and extorts her, by threatening to cause her to lose her job by revealing her secret. Attempting to escape Bill gives up his chance at freedom to rescue the warden's children - and is later pardoned, coming home to wreak vengeance on Sneaky Pete, and justify Mary's faith in him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-01
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Feel My Pulse
Overview: A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1928-02-26
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Miss Nobody
Overview: A raft carrying a little girl and a dead woman drifts in from a shipwreck to Devil's Island. There, a band of thieves and smugglers name the girl Rose Marie, though she grows up as "nobody's girl."
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-01
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What Happened to Jones
Overview: On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies night, ending up disguised in drag and with difficult explanations to make.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-08
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The Vamp
Overview: Nancy, a naive young girl who works backstage at a musical-comedy theatre, learns from the chorus girls the notion of winning a man by the seductive method of "vamping" him. She tries the method on the shy minister she loves, and it works.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-14
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Savages of the Sea
Overview: A seaman on board a sailing ship battles mutinous crew members, a corrupt millionaire trying to take over the ship and falls in love with a girl who turns out to be his adopted sister.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-17
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Modern Husbands
Overview: When wealthy Wall Street stockbroker Stephen Duane neglects his wife Julia for business, she consorts with philanderer Bert Brockwell. Finding them in an embrace forced by Brockwell, Stephen denounces Julia and leaves. After losing his fortune in the market, Stephen refuses Julia's offer to sell her jewels, and stays away for one year
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-28
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There It Is
Overview: When a mysterious figure appears to cause a series of disruptions at the Frisbie Home in New York, word goes out to Scotland Yard that the Fuzz-Faced Phantom is at work. Soon, Charley MacNeesha and his assistant MacGregor are sent across the ocean to investigate.
Genres: Horror Comedy Animation Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Code of the Cow Country
Overview: Jim West, foreman of John Calhoun's ranch, falls in love with Helen, the boss's daughter, after rescuing her from a runaway horse. Her brother, Ted, falls into the companionship of Bill Jackson, a notorious gambler and saloon keeper, who persuades Ted to sign I. O. U.'s while under the influence of alcohol. Jim, in company with Red Irwin, a tough deputy sheriff, confronts the gambler and forces a confession. Jackson plans a raid on the Calhoun cattle, forcing Ted to be his ally. Dolores, a dancehall girl, overhears the plot and tells Jim, causing Helen to misunderstand his motives.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-19
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The Cloud Rider
Overview: Bruce Torrence is an aviator and member of the secret service. His rival for the hand of Zella Wingate is Juan Lascelles, a drug smuggler. To get rid of Torrence, Lascelles loosens a wheel on one of his planes, but Zella is the one who goes up in it. Torrence goes up in another plane and attaches a fresh wheel to Zella's plane. In spite of his efforts he later finds her in Lascelles' arms.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-15
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The Claws of the Hun
Overview: An American munitions manufacturer and his son become ensnarled with enemy agents from Germany during the First World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-08
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Fighting Courage
Overview: Richard Kingsley, son of a financier, trying to aid Marjorie Crenshaw and her sister during a raid on a New York roadhouse, is arrested. His father, enraged by the bad publicity, threatens to disinherit him if he doesn't go to Colorado in search of a mine....
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-12
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Hell Hath No Fury
Overview: Hell Hath No Fury is a silent drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-20
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Geared to Go
Overview: "Hero is son of owner of taxicab company. Learning of injustice toward independents, he becomes independent driver. Heroine inherits half interest in company, and desiring to learn truth, goes to work as telephone operator in independent garage. Together they force a consolidation with the independents, and find happiness in their love."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-15
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Behind the Front
Overview: During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not knowing that it's the same pickpocket who stole his watch. After finishing basic training, the two are sent to the front lines in France, where they wind up in trouble with the MPs, getting involved with some cute French girls and "volunteering" for a dangerous front-line mission, and their antics result in their endangering the armistice.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-22
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The City
Overview: The City is a lost 1926 silent film produced and released by the Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Roy William Neill and is based on Clyde Fitch's 1909 Broadway play. A previous film on Fitch's play appeared in 1916. This version has been updated to contemporary 1926
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-14
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Coals of Fire
Overview: Pretty young Nell Bradley is the daughter of a saloonkeeper in a "dry" town, and is looked down upon by townspeople, but Rev. Charles Alden, the town minister, finds himself attracted to her. One day at Nell's father's bar, a traveling salesman gets a young woman intoxicated, intending to "have his way" with her. Nell sees this and gets the bartender to save the young woman's virtue, but just at that moment Rev. Alden walks in and mistakenly believes that Nell has gotten the girl drunk. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-26
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The Gift Supreme
Overview: Bradford Vinton falls in love with a girl singer from the slums, but his father makes plans to break the relationship; when the plans fail, he disinherits his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-30
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The Flame of the Yukon
Overview: George Fowler arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon girl, known only as "The Flame," to fleece him, but he has no money...
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-01
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Eve in Exile
Overview: Society girl Eva Ricardo is sent to a seaside New England village to live with her maiden aunt by her father after he loses all his money in speculation. There she falls in love..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-07
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The March Hare
Overview: Lizbeth Palmer is known as "The March Hare" among her friends, and the daughter of a Los Angeles millionaire, comes to New York with a chaperon to visit her aunt. After betting the chaperon that she can live on 75c for an entire week, she assumes the part of a flower girl in a restaurant and there makes a hit with young millionaire Tod Rollins, who invites her to his home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-27
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Wolves of the Rail
Overview: Smoky Gap Railroad president Murray Lemantier is fed up with a bandit gang led by Buck Andrade constantly holding up his train and getting away with it. He hires ace detective David Cassidy to track down and get Buck, dead or alive. However, when Buck goes to see his dying mother she makes him promise to reform, and he does. Cassidy, though, doesn't care about that and tries to arrest him. Buck decides to do something that will once and for all show everyone that he has indeed reformed--especially Faith Lawson, a pretty station agent he's in love with.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Nomads of the North
Overview: A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the women he loves.
Genres: Thriller Romance Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-25
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Bond of Fear
Overview: When stern Judge McClure gets into an argument with his younger brother John, a physical fight ensues in which the judge apparently kills John. In fear of the consequences, he runs off to the West and hires guide Cal Nelson to take him far into the desert. Along the way they meet Mary Jackson, and the judge, overcome by heat prostration, babbles out his secret.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-23
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Beyond the Crossroads
Overview: While James Fordham is away prospecting in Alaska, his wife runs off with Truman Breese. She manages to make her way back to her husband, but dies shortly thereafter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-27
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The Golden Snare
Overview: Sgt. Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the mountains to capture killer Bram Johnson.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-10
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He Raised Kane
Overview: Kane, who does not want his father to know he is a fighter, thinking he objects, nearly loses the fight when he sees him at the ringside. In the end, it is the words of encouragement from his father which causes him to win. It develops that the "Kid's" father has known it all the time and has been getting reports on his son's prowess in the ring. Eighth episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-18
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The Wandering Two
Overview: 13th episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-28
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Scandalous Tongues
Overview: Nell Bradley, the daughter of a wealthy bootlegger, who is encouraged to improve herself through education by Reverend Charles Alden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-22
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A Nine O'Clock Town
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-28
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