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Roddy McDowall
McDowall in 1988
Born
Roderick Andrew McDowall

(1928-09-17)17 September 1928
London, England
Died3 October 1998(1998-10-03) (aged 70)
Los Angeles, California
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • United States (after 1949)
EducationSt Joseph's College
OccupationActor
Years active1938–1998
Political partyDemocratic
PartnerMontgomery Clift (1950s)
Military career
Allegiance United States
Branch
Service years1946–1954
1960–1962
RankCorporal
Unit
Conflicts
Signature

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was an English and American actor, whose career spanned over 270 screen and stage roles across more than 60 years.[1]

He began his career as a child in his native England before starring in How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Friend Flicka (1943), and Lassie Come Home (1943) in America. Unlike many child stars, McDowall evolved into an adult performer on stage and screen. He played Mordred in the Broadway musical Camelot (1960–63), won a Tony Award for his performance in Jean Anouilh's The Fighting Cock, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance in Cleopatra (1963).

He subsequently appeared in a variety of film and television roles, notably as Cornelius and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes films (1968–73), and in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Legend of Hell House (1973), The Fantastic Journey (1977), Fright Night (1985), A Bug's Life (1998), and as the voice of Jervis Tetch / Mad Hatter in the DC Animated Universe.

McDowall served in various positions on the board of governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the selection committee for the Kennedy Center Honors, contributing to various charities related to the film industry and film preservation. He was a founding member of the National Film Preservation Board and represented the Screen Actors Guild on that board until his death. He was also active as a photographer and journalist.

Early life

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McDowall was born in Herne Hill, London, the only son of Thomas Andrew McDowall (1896–1978), a merchant seaman, and his Irish wife Winifred (née Corcoran).[2][3][4] Both of his parents were enthusiastic about the theatre. McDowall and his elder sister, Virginia, were raised in their mother's Catholic faith. He attended St Joseph's College, Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, a Roman Catholic secondary school in London.[5]

Career

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British films

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After appearing as a child model as a baby, and winning an acting prize in a school play at age nine, McDowell started appearing in films, including I See Ice (1938) with George Formby and Hey! Hey! USA (1938) with Will Hay.[6]

Early US films

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McDowall and his sister were brought to the United States by their mother after the outbreak of World War II. He became a naturalised United States citizen on 9 December 1949[6] and lived in the United States for the rest of his life.

McDowall served in the U.S. Army Reserves, and after basic training, was assigned to the 67th Armored Infantry Battalion, 13th Armored Division of the U.S. Army's Organized Reserve Corps headquartered in Los Angeles. Later, he was assigned to the 63rd Infantry Division. McDowall served from 1946 to 1954, spanning from the end of World War II to the end of the Korean War.[7] He then served in the 77th Infantry Division from 1960 to 1962.[7]

McDowall's American film career began with the 1941 thriller Man Hunt, directed by Fritz Lang. It was made by 20th Century Fox, which also produced McDowall's next film, How Green Was My Valley (1941), on which he and Maureen O'Hara became lifelong friends. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and McDowall's role as Huw Morgan made him a household name.[6]

Stardom

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McDowall in Lassie Come Home (1943)

Fox promoted McDowall to top billing for On the Sunny Side (1942), and he was top billed again for an adaptation of My Friend Flicka (1942). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer borrowed McDowall for the star role in Lassie Come Home (1943) with Elizabeth Taylor, who became another lifelong friend, and kept him for a leading role in The White Cliffs of Dover (1944). In 1944, exhibitors voted McDowall the number-four "Star of Tomorrow"[8] after which Fox gave McDowall another starring vehicle: Thunderhead – Son of Flicka (1945).

Theatre

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McDowall turned to the theatre, taking the title role of Young Woodley in summer stock in Westport, Connecticut, in July 1946.[9] In 1947, he played Malcolm in Orson Welles's stage production of Macbeth in Salt Lake City, and reprised the role in the actor-director's film version in 1948.[6]

Monogram Pictures

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McDowall and Roland Winters in Killer Shark (1950)

McDowall then signed a three-year contract with Monogram Pictures to make two films a year.[10] He starred in seven films at Monogram, for which he also worked as associate producer, including Kidnapped (1948), an adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson story, wherein he played David Balfour.[11]

1950s: Television and theatre

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After relocating to New York City, McDowall became a frequent presence in live television drama, appearing in numerous televised plays and anthology series throughout the 1950s. He also had a significant career on Broadway, including a production of Misalliance (1953) that he said "broke the mould" in how he was judged as an actor.[12] Ira Levin's No Time for Sergeants (1955–57) was a major hit,[13] followed by a critical success with Compulsion (1957–58) based on the Leopold and Loeb case, after which McDowell won a Tony Award for Peter Brook's The Fighting Cock (1960).

1960: Return to Hollywood

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McDowall as Mordred with Richard Burton in the Broadway musical Camelot (1960)

McDowall enjoyed another big hit on Broadway with the musical Camelot (1960–63), which starred Julie Andrews and Richard Burton.[14] He took part in a TV production of The Tempest (1960) alongside Burton and Maurice Evans,[15] before appearing in his first film in almost a decade, The Subterraneans (1960), followed by Midnight Lace (1960). He was also seen in The Longest Day (1962) prior to his portrayal of Octavian in Cleopatra. He worked in film throughout the decade, notably in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), and 5 Card Stud (1968), though his most memorable role was as Cornelius in Planet of the Apes. He went on to appear in three sequels and the TV spin-off.

McDowall continued to work regularly in television, including his Emmy-winning turn in Sunday Showcase and a production of The Power and the Glory (1961) with Laurence Olivier, George C. Scott, and Julie Harris.

McDowall in full costume, with co-stars Ron Harper (front) and James Naughton (back), in the Planet of the Apes TV series (1974)

1970s-1990s

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McDowall made his lone effort as a director with The Ballad of Tam Lin (1970).[16] As an actor, he was in Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), and Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). In addition to his television work, most significantly in Columbo, he made his third Apes film as Caesar, son of his earlier character, Cornelius, in 1972's Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. He took supporting roles in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972)[17] before his final Apes film, Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). During the short-lived TV spin-off of Planet of the Apes (1974), he made a guest appearance on The Carol Burnett Show in his Planet of the Apes makeup and performed a love duet with Burnett.[18]

Asked about his career in a 1975 interview, McDowall said, "I just hope to keep working and in interesting things."[19] For the rest of his life, he alternated between features, TV films, and guesting on TV series, including Overboard, on which he also served as executive producer.

In 1989, he said, "I feel as Henry Fonda did that every job I get may be my last. I'm one of those creatures born to be working. I feel better when I'm working. I don't like it when I'm not working and I've never worked as much as I want to."[20]

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1993, when he was surprised by Michael Aspel at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.[citation needed]

In one of his final public appearances, McDowall hosted the MGM Musicals Tribute at Carnegie Hall in 1997.

Other work

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McDowall in 1997

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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McDowall served for several years in various capacities on the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organisation that presents the Academy Awards (Oscars), and on the selection committee for the Kennedy Center Awards. He was chairman of the Actors' Branch for five terms. He was elected president of the Academy Foundation in 1998, the year that he died. He worked to support the Motion Pictures Retirement Home, where a rose garden named in his honour was officially dedicated on 9 October 2001. It remains part of the campus.[21]

Photographer and author

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McDowall received recognition as a photographer, working with Look, Vogue, Collier's, and Life. His work includes a cover story on Mae West for Life and the cover of the 1964 Barbra Streisand album, The Third Album. He took the photograph when Streisand performed on The Judy Garland Show in October 1963.

He published five books of photographs, each featuring photos and profile interviews of his celebrity friends interviewing each other, such as Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Judy Holliday, Maureen O'Hara, Katharine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, and others, starting with Double Exposure in 1968.[22][23]

Honours

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For his contributions to television, McDowall received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, at 6632 Hollywood Blvd.[24]

Personal life

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In 1974, the FBI raided McDowall's home and seized his collection of films and television series in the course of an investigation into film piracy and copyright infringement. His collection consisted of 160 16mm prints and more than 1000 video cassettes, at a time before the era of commercial videotapes, when no legal aftermarket existed for film. McDowall had purchased Errol Flynn's home cinema films and transferred them all to tape for longer-lasting archival storage. No charges were filed.[25]

Sexuality and relationships

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McDowall never married nor had children. In Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars (2012) by Scotty Bowers, a famous Hollywood procurer, Bowers named McDowall as one of his homosexual clients.[26]

McDowall was in a relationship with Montgomery Clift for several years in the early 1950s.[27][28] They were introduced by Elizabeth Taylor.[29] During the two-and-a-half years that Clift stayed away from films, McDowall's career was nonexistent.[30][31] He devoted himself entirely to Clift and moved from Los Angeles to New York to be closer to his idol.[32] McDowall reportedly attempted suicide after their break-up.[33] Nevertheless, he showed no bitterness and remained one of Clift's loyal friends.[34] McDowall starred with Clift in his final picture, The Defector. Clift later stated that he could never have finished the film without McDowall's moral support.[35]

Death

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In April 1998, McDowall was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died at his home in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, on 3 October 1998, aged 70.[36] His body was cremated and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean on 7 October 1998, off Los Angeles County.[37] Dennis Osborne, a screenwriter, cared for McDowall in his final months, and was quoted as saying, "It was very peaceful. It was just as he wanted it. It was exactly the way he planned."[38]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1938 Convict 99 Jimmy
Murder in the Family Peter Osborne
John Halifax Boy
1939 Poison Pen Choir Boy Uncredited
1940 His Brother's Keeper Boy
Dead Man's Shoes Boy
Just William Ginger
Saloon Bar Boy
1941 You Will Remember Young Bob Slater
Man Hunt Vaner
This England Hugo
How Green Was My Valley Huw Morgan
Confirm or Deny Albert Perkins
1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake Young Benjamin Blake
On the Sunnyside Hugh Aylesworth
The Pied Piper Ronnie Cavanaugh
1943 My Friend Flicka Ken McLaughlin
Lassie Come Home Joe Carraclough
1944 The White Cliffs of Dover Young John Ashwood
The Keys of the Kingdom Young Francis Chisholm
1945 Thunderhead, Son of Flicka Ken McLaughlin
1945 Molly and Me Jimmy Graham
1946 Holiday in Mexico Stanley Owen
1948 Rocky Chris Hammond
Macbeth Malcolm
Kidnapped David Balfour
1949 Tuna Clipper Alec MacLennan
Black Midnight Scott Jordan
1950 Big Timber Jimmy
Killer Shark Ted
1952 The Steel Fist Eric Kardin
1958 The Big Country Hannassey Watchman Uncredited
1960 The Subterraneans Yuri Gilgoric
Midnight Lace Malcolm Stanley
1962 The Longest Day Pvt. Morris
1963 Cleopatra Octavian
1964 Shock Treatment Martin Ashley
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told Matthew
That Darn Cat! Gregory Benson
The Third Day Oliver Parsons
The Loved One D.J. Jr.
Inside Daisy Clover Walter Baines
1966 Lord Love a Duck Alan Musgrave
The Defector Agent Adams
1967 The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin Bullwhip Griffin
The Cool Ones Tony Krum
It! Arthur Pimm
1968 Planet of the Apes Cornelius
5 Card Stud Nick Evers
1969 Midas Run Wister
Hello Down There Nate Ashbury
Angel, Angel, Down We Go Santoro
1971 Pretty Maids All in a Row Proffer
Escape from the Planet of the Apes Cornelius
Terror in the Sky Ralph Baird
Bedknobs and Broomsticks Rowan Jelk
1972 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Caesar
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean Frank Gass
The Poseidon Adventure Acres
1973 Arnold Robert
The Legend of Hell House Benjamin Franklin Fischer
Battle for the Planet of the Apes Caesar
1974 Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry Grocery Store Manager
1975 Funny Lady Bobby
1976 Mean Johnny Barrows Tony Da Vince
Embryo Frank Riley
1977 Sixth and Main Skateboard
1978 Laserblast Dr. Mellon
The Cat from Outer Space Mr. Stallwood
Circle of Iron White Robe
The Thief of Baghdad Hasan
1979 Scavenger Hunt Jenkins
Nutcracker Fantasy Franz/Fritz [39]
The Black Hole V.I.N.CENT. (voice)
1981 Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen Gillespie
1982 Evil Under the Sun Rex Brewster
Class of 1984 Terry Corrigan
1985 Fright Night Peter Vincent
1986 GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords Nuggit (voice)
Friends Are Forever: Tales of the Little Princess Zak the Cat (voice)
1987 Dead of Winter Mr. Murray
Overboard Andrew
1988 Doin' Time on Planet Earth Minister
Fright Night Part 2 Peter Vincent
1989 The Big Picture Judge
Cutting Class Mr. Dante
1990 Shakma Sorenson
1991 Timmy's Gift: A Precious Moments Christmas Narrator (voice)
Going Under Secretary Neighbor
1992 Double Trouble Philip Chamberlain
1993 The Evil Inside Me Pauly
The Return of Captain Sinbad Narrator (voice)
1994 Mirror, Mirror II: Raven Dance Dr. Lasky
1995 The Grass Harp Amos Legrand
The Alien Within Dr. Henry Lazarus
Last Summer in the Hamptons Thomas
Star Hunter Riecher
1996 It's My Party Damian Knowles
1997 The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo King Murphy
1998 Something to Believe In Gambler
A Bug's Life Mr. Soil (voice) Posthumous release[39]
Star Power: The Creation of United Artists Narrator (voice) Posthumous release

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1951 Family Theatre Private Huntington (The Professor) Episode: "Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration"
1960 The Twilight Zone Sam Conrad Episode: "People Are Alike All Over"
1961 Naked City Donnie Benton Episode: "The Fault in Our Stars"
1963 Arrest and Trial Paul LeDoux Episode: "Journey into Darkness"
1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour George, Gerald Musgrove 2 episodes
Combat! Murfree Episode: "The Long Walk"
Kraft Suspense Theatre Robert "Professor" Benson Episode: "The Wine-Dark Sea"
1965 Ben Casey Dwight Franklin Episode: "When I am grown to Man's Estate"
1966 12 O'Clock High Technical Sergeant Willets Episode: "Angel Babe"
Batman Bookworm 2 episodes
Run for Your Life Gyula Bognar Episode: "Don't Count on Tomorrow"
1967 The Invaders Lloyd Lindstrom Episode: "The Experiment"
1969 Journey to the Unknown Rollo Verdew Episode: "The Killing Bottle"
It Takes a Thief Roger Episode: "Boom at the Top"
Night Gallery Jeremy Evans Segment: "The Cemetery"
1969, 1970 The Name of the Game Philip Saxon, Early McCorley 2 episodes
1972 Columbo Roger Stanford Episode: "Short Fuse"
The Rookies: Dirge for Sunday Fenner Episode: "Dirge for Sunday"
Mission: Impossible Leo Ostro Episode: "The Puppet"
1973–74 The Carol Burnett Show Himself – Guest
1973 Barnaby Jones Stanley Lambert Episode: "See Some Evil... Do Some Evil"
McMillan & Wife Jamie McMillan Episode: "Death of a Monster... Birth of a Legend"
1974 Planet of the Apes Galen 14 episodes
1976 Ellery Queen The Amazing Armitage Episode: "The Adventure of the Black Falcon"
Mowgli's Brothers Various (voices) Television short
1977 The Feather and Father Gang Vincent Stoddard Episode: "The Mayan Connection"
The Rhinemann Exchange Bobby Ballard 3 episodes
The Fantastic Journey Dr. Jonathan Willoway 8 episodes
Wonder Woman Henry Roberts, Professor Arthur Chapman 2 episodes
1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Governor Saroyan Episode: "Planet of the Slave Girls"
$weepstake$ Theodore Episode: "Billy, Wally and Ludmilla, and Theodore"
Supertrain Talcott Episode: "The Green Lady"
Fantasy Island Gary Pointer 1 episode
Hart to Hart Dr. Peterson Episode: "Hart to Hart"
The Love Boat Fred Beery Episode: "Second Chance/Don't Push Me/Like Father, Like Son" S2 E16
Mork & Mindy Chuck the Robot (voice) Episode: "Dr. Morkenstein"
1980 The Martian Chronicles Father Stone 3 episodes
1980–81 Fantasy Island Mephistopheles 2 episodes
1982–83 Tales of the Gold Monkey Bon Chance Louie 20 episodes
1985 Hollywood Wives Jason Swankle 3 episodes
1985, 1989 Murder, She Wrote Gordon Fairchild, Dr. Alger Kenyon 2 episodes
1985 Bridges to Cross Norman Parks Episode: "Memories of Molly"
1987, 1989 Matlock Don Mosher, Christopher Hoyt 2 episodes
1989 Around the World in 80 Days McBaines 3 episodes
1991 The Pirates of Dark Water Niddler (voice) 5 episodes
An Inconvenient Woman Cyril Rathbone 2 episodes
1992 The Legend of Prince Valiant King Frederick (voice) Episode: "The Battle of Greystone"
Quantum Leap Edward St. John V Episode: "A Leap for Lisa"
Darkwing Duck Sir Quackmire Mallard (voice) Episode: "Inherit the Wimp"
1992–94 Batman: The Animated Series Jervis Tetch / Mad Hatter (voice) 4 episodes[39]
1993 2 Stupid Dogs Chameleon (voice) Episode: "Chameleon"
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron Lenny Ringtail, Madkat (voice) Episode: "Enter the Madkat"
1994 Red Planet Headmaster Marcus Howe (voice) 3 episodes
The Tick Breadmaster (voice) Episode: "The Tick vs. The Breadmaster"
1996 Tracey Takes On... Rex Gaydon Episode: "Nostalgia"
Gargoyles Proteus (voice) Episode: "The New Olympians"[39]
Duckman Akers (voice) Episode: "Apocalypse Not"
Pinky and the Brain Snowball (voice) 6 episodes[39]
1998 The New Batman Adventures Jervis Tetch / Mad Hatter (voice) 2 episodes[39]
Superman: The Animated Series Episode: "Knight Time"; posthumous role[39]
Behind the Planet of the Apes Narrator Television documentary; posthumous role
1999 Godzilla: The Series Hugh Trevor (voice) Episode: "DeadLoch"; posthumous role

TV films and miniseries

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Year Title Role Notes
1960 The Tempest Ariel
1967 The Cricket on the Hearth Cricket Crocket (voice) [39]
1968 The Legend of Robin Hood Prince John
1971 Terror in the Sky Dr. Ralph Baird
A Taste of Evil Dr. Michael Lomas
What's a Nice Girl Like You...? Albert Soames
1973 Miracle on 34th Street Dr. Sawyer
1974 The Elevator Marvin Ellis
1976 Flood! Mr. Franklin
1978 The Immigrants Mark Levy
The Thief of Baghdad Hasan
1980 The Memory of Eva Ryker MacFarland
The Return of the King Samwise Gamgee (voice)
1981 The Million Dollar Face Derek Kenyon
1984 The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood Prince John
1985 Alice in Wonderland March Hare
1987 The Wind in the Willows Ratty (voice)
1988 Remo Williams: The Prophecy Chuin
1991 Timmy's Gift: A Precious Moments Christmas Narrator (voice)
1994 Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is Jeremy Sennet
1996 Dead Man's Island Trevor Dunnaway
Unlikely Angel Saint Peter

Stage appearances

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Radio appearances

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Year Program Episode/source Ref.
1943 Lux Radio Theatre My Friend Flicka [41]
1947 Suspense One Way Street [42]
1948 The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen Rocky Iii and the Dead Mans Chest [43]
1952 Family Theater A Lullaby for Christmas [44]

Awards and nominations

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Award Year Category Work Result Ref.
Golden Globe Awards 1964 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Cleopatra Nominated [45]
National Board of Review Awards 1941 Best Acting How Green Was My Valley Won [46]
Primetime Emmy Awards 1961 Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Single Program NBC Sunday Showcase ("Our American Heritage: Not Without Honor") Won [47]
1964 Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Arrest and Trial ("Journey into Darkness") Nominated [47]
Saturn Awards 1983 Best Supporting Actor Class of 1984 Nominated
1986 Fright Night Won

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