Melvin Mayo
Melvin Mayo was an American actor and director. He worked for Balboa and Lubin. He portrayed Jim West in the 1915 film Jim West, Gambler and had the title role in the 1916 film A Modern Paul.
He appeared in silent horror films.
Filmography
- The Stolen Yacht featuring the Fulton Shipyard
- The Twig is Bent, Lubin film
- Saved from the Harem as Ezra Hickman
- Meg O' the Cliffs
- An Ambassador From the Dead
- Jim West, Gambler as Jim West
- A Song from the Heart as Otto Ritter
- Soldier Sons
- The Crash
- A Lesson in Labor as John Seward II
- The Gulf Between as Vorec
- A Sister to Cain
- The Return of James Jerome
- The Wheat and the Chaff
- A Modern Paul, title role
- Brand's Daughter as Baron Norvinsk
- Tears and Smiles as Marie's Father
- Mentioned in Confidence as Robert Manning
Director
- None So Blind, director, adapted from a story by C. A. Frambers
- Jack Straws, director under the supervision of Captain Wilbert Melville, story by Josephine McLaughlin
- Love is Law, director, he also acted as Roscoe, an "Indian" trader in the film