Roddy McDowall

Roddy McDowall
Roddy McDowall
	McDowall in 1997
Born	Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall; 17 September 1928; Herne Hill, London, England
Died	3 October 1998 (aged 70); Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Lung cancer
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1938–1999

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was a British television, movie, stage, voice, radio, child actor and photographer. He is known for his soft smooth voice and for his role as Cornelius and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes movie series. He won a Tony Award, a Emmy Award, and a Saturn Award.

McDowall was born on 17 September 1928 in Herne Hill, London, England. McDowall was never married and had no children. McDowall was a closeted homosexual.^[1]^[2] McDowall died on 3 October 1998 from lung cancer in his Studio City, Los Angeles, California home, aged 70.^[3]

Filmography

Film

Murder in the Family (1938) as Peter Osborne
John Halifax (1938) as Boy
Dead Man's Shoes (1940) as Boy
Just William (1940) as Ginger
You Will Remember (1941) as Young Bob Slater
Man Hunt (1941) as Vaner
This England (1941) as Hugo, Norman Boy
How Green Was My Valley (1941) as Huw Morgan
Confirm or Deny (1941) as Albert Perkins
The Pied Piper (1942) as Ronnie Cavanaugh
My Friend Flicka (1943) as Ken McLaughlin
Lassie Come Home (1943) as Joe Carraclough
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) as John Ashwood II as a Boy
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) as Francis Chisholm – as a Boy
Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (1945) as Ken McLaughlin
Molly and Me (1945) as Jimmy Graham
Holiday in Mexico (1946) as Stanley Owen
Rocky (1948) as Chris Hammond
Macbeth (1948) as Malcolm
Big Timber (1950) as Jimmy
Killer Shark (1950) as Ted
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950; short subject)
The Steel Fist (1952) as Eric Kardin
The Big Country (1958) as Hannassey Watchman (uncredited)
The Subterraneans (1960) as Yuri Gilgoric
Midnight Lace (1960) as Malcolm Stanley
The Longest Day (1962) as Pvt. Morris
Cleopatra (1963) as Octavian – Caesar Augustus
Shock Treatment (1964) as Martin Ashley
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) as Matthew
The Defector (1966) as Agent Adams
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) as Bullwhip Griffin
The Cool Ones (1967) as Tony Krum
It! (1967) as Arthur Pimm
Planet of the Apes (1968) as Cornelius
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) as Proffer
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) as Cornelius
Terror in the Sky (1971) as Dr. Ralph Baird
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) as Mr. Rowan Jelk
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) as Caesar
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) as Frank Gass
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) as Acres
Arnold (1973) as Robert
The Legend of Hell House (1973) as Benjamin Franklin Fischer
The Cat from Outer Space (1978) as Mr. Stallwood
Circle of Iron (1978) as White Robe
The Thief of Baghdad (1978) as Hasan
Nutcracker Fantasy (1979) as Franz / Fritz (voice)
Scavenger Hunt (1979) as Jenkins
The Black Hole (1979) as V.I.N.CENT
Overboard (1987) as Andrew
Fright Night Part 2 (1988) as Peter Vincent
The Big Picture (1989) as Judge
Cutting Class (1989) as Mr. Dante
Shakma (1990) as Sorenson
Going Under (1990) as Secretary Neighbor
Harold Lloyd, The Third Genius (1990 documentary)
Precious Moments Christmas: "Timmy's Gift" (1991) as narrator (voice)
Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1992) as Minister
The Magical World of Chuck Jones (1992 documentary)
The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997) as King Murphy
Something to Believe In (1998) as Gambler
A Bug's Life (1998) as Mr. Soil (voice)
When It Clicks (1998) (short subject) as Professor Bark

Television

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	Season 1, Episode 25: "People Are Alike All Over"
1960	The Tempest	Ariel	TV movie
1964	Combat!	Murfree	Season 3, Episode 13: "The Long Walk"
1964	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Robert "Professor" Benson	Season 2, Episode 11: "The Wine-Dark Sea"
1965	Ben Casey	Dwight Franklin	Season 4, Episode 19: "When I am grown to Man's Estate"
1966	12 O'Clock High	"T" / Sgt. Willets	Season 2, Episode 24: "Angel Babe"
1966	Batman	Bookworm	Season 1, Episode 29: "The Bookworm Turns" Season 1, Episode: 30 "While Gotham City Burns"
1966	Run for Your Life	Gyula Bognar	Episode: "Don't Count on Tomorrow"
1969	Journey to the Unknown	Rollo Verdew	Season 1, Episode 12: "The Killing Bottle"
1969	It Takes a Thief	Roger	Season 2, Episode 19: "Boom at the Top"
1969	Night Gallery	Jeremy Evans	"The Cemetery" segment
1969	The Name of the Game	Philip Saxon	Season 1, Episode 11: "The White Birch"
1970	The Name of the Game	Early McCorley	Season 3, Episode 12: "Why I Blew Up Dakota"
1971	Terror in the Sky	Dr. Ralph Baird	TV movie
1972	Columbo	Roger Stanford	Episode: "Short Fuse"
1972	The Rookies: Dirge for Sunday	Fenner	Episode: "Dirge for Sunday"
1972	Mission: Impossible	Leo Ostro	Episode: The Puppet
1973	McMillan & Wife	Jamie McMillan	Episode: "Death of a Monster... Birth of a Legend"
1974	Planet of the Apes	Galen	14 episodes
1974	The Elevator	Marvin Ellis	TV movie
1976	Ellery Queen	The Amazing Armitage	Season 1, Episode: 12 "The Adventure of the Black Falcon"
1976	Flood!	Mr. Franklin	TV movie
1976	Mowgli's Brothers	Narrator / Mowgli / Shere Khan / Baloo / Bagheera / Tabaqui	Voice, TV Short
1977	The Feather and Father Gang	Vincent Stoddard	Season 1, Episode 12: "The Mayan Connection"
1977	The Rhinemann Exchange	Bobby Ballard	3 episodes
1977	The Fantastic Journey	Dr. Jonathan Willoway	8 Episodes
1977	Wonder Woman	Henry Roberts / Professor Arthur Chapman	2 episodes
1978	The Immigrants	Mark Levy	TV movie
1979	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century	Governor Saroyan	Season 1, Episode 2: "Planet of the Slave Girls"
1979	Supertrain	Talcott	Episode: "The Green Lady"
1979	Hart to Hart	Dr. Peterson	Episode: "Hart to Hart"
1979	Mork & Mindy	Chuck the Robot	Voice, Episode: "Dr. Morkenstein"
1980	The Martian Chronicles	Father Stone	3 episodes
1980	The Memory of Eva Ryker	MacFarland	TV movie
1980	The Return of the King	Samwise Gamgee	Voice, TV movie
1984	The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood	Prince John	TV movie
1985	Hollywood Wives	Jason Swankle	3 episodes
1985	Alice in Wonderland	The March Hare	TV movie
1985–1989	Murder, She Wrote	Gordon Fairchild / Dr. Alger Kenyon	2 episodes
1985	Bridges to Cross	Norman Parks	Episode: "Memories of Molly"
1987	The Wind in the Willows	Ratty	Voice, TV movie
1988	Remo Williams: The Prophecy	Chuin	TV movie
1989	Around the World in 80 Days	McBaines	3 episodes
1991	The Pirates of Dark Water	Niddler	Voice, 5 Episodes
1991	An Inconvenient Woman	Cyril Rathbone	2 episodes
1991	Timmy's Gift: A Precious Moments Christmas	Narrator	Voice
1992	Darkwing Duck	Sir Quackmire Mallard	Voice, Episode: "Inherit the Wimp"
1992–1994	Batman: The Animated Series	Jervis Tetch / The Mad Hatter	Voice, 4 episodes
1992	Camp Candy		Voice, Episode: "When it Rains… it Snows"
1993	2 Stupid Dogs	Chameleon	Voice, Episode: "Chameleon"
1993	SWAT Kats	Lenny Ringtail / Madkat	Voice, Episode: "Enter the Madkat"
1994	The Tick	Breadmaster	Voice, 6 Episodes
1996	Tracey Takes On...	Rex Gaydon	Episode: "Nostalgia"
1996	Gargoyles	Proteus	Voice, Episode: "The New Olympians"
1996	Unlikely Angel	Saint Peter	TV movie
1998	The New Batman Adventures	Jervis Tetch / The Mad Hatter	Voice, 2 Episodes

Stage

Young Woodley (1946)

No Time for Sergeants (1955)
Good as Gold (1957)
Compulsion (1957)
Handful of Fire (1958)
Look After Lulu (1959)

The Fighting Cock (1959)
Dial M for Murder (1995–1996)
A Christmas Carol: The Musical (1997)

References

↑ Smith, Patricia Juliana (2002), Claude J. Summers (ed.), "McDowall, Roddy", GLBTQ.com, archived from the original on 2 December 2009, retrieved 15 March 2010
↑ Simpson, Mark (2002), Sex terror: erotic misadventures in pop culture, Routledge, p. 69, ISBN 1-56023-376-1
↑ Gussow, Mel (4 October 1998), "Roddy McDowall, 70, Dies; Child Star and Versatile Actor", New York Times, retrieved 16 March 2010

Other websites

Media related to Roddy McDowall at Wikimedia Commons

Roddy McDowall on IMDb
Roddy McDowall at the Internet Broadway Database
Roddy McDowall at Find a Grave

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[glbtq-1] Smith, Patricia Juliana (2002), Claude J. Summers (ed.), "McDowall, Roddy", GLBTQ.com, archived from the original on 2 December 2009, retrieved 15 March 2010

[terror-2] Simpson, Mark (2002), Sex terror: erotic misadventures in pop culture, Routledge, p. 69, ISBN 1-56023-376-1

[3] Gussow, Mel (4 October 1998), "Roddy McDowall, 70, Dies; Child Star and Versatile Actor", New York Times, retrieved 16 March 2010

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v t e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
1949–1975	Arthur Kennedy (1949) Eli Wallach (1951) John Cromwell (1952) John Williams (1953) John Kerr (1954) Francis L. Sullivan (1955) Ed Begley (1956) Frank Conroy (1957) Henry Jones (1958) Charlie Ruggles (1959) Roddy McDowall (1960) Martin Gabel (1961) Walter Matthau (1962) Alan Arkin (1963) Hume Cronyn (1964) Jack Albertson (1965) Patrick Magee (1966) Ian Holm (1967) James Patterson (1968) Al Pacino (1969) Ken Howard (1970) Paul Sand (1971) Vincent Gardenia (1972) John Lithgow (1973) Ed Flanders (1974) Frank Langella (1975)
1976–2000	Edward Herrmann (1976) Jonathan Pryce (1977) Lester Rawlins (1978) Michael Gough (1979) David Rounds (1980) Brian Backer (1981) Zakes Mokae (1982) Matthew Broderick (1983) Joe Mantegna (1984) Barry Miller (1985) John Mahoney (1986) John Randolph (1987) B. D. Wong (1988) Boyd Gaines (1989) Charles Durning (1990) Kevin Spacey (1991) Laurence Fishburne (1992) Stephen Spinella (1993) Jeffrey Wright (1994) John Glover (1995) Ruben Santiago-Hudson (1996) Owen Teale (1997) Tom Murphy (1998) Frank Wood (1999) Roy Dotrice (2000)
2001–present	Robert Sean Leonard (2001) Frank Langella (2002) Denis O'Hare (2003) Brían F. O'Byrne (2004) Liev Schreiber (2005) Ian McDiarmid (2006) Billy Crudup (2007) Jim Norton (2008) Roger Robinson (2009) Eddie Redmayne (2010) John Benjamin Hickey (2011) Christian Borle (2012) Courtney B. Vance (2013) Mark Rylance (2014) Richard McCabe (2015) Reed Birney (2016) Michael Aronov (2017)