Biography: life and films
Roddy McDowall was an English actor and film director whose birth name was Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall. He was born in Herne Hill, London, England, UK on 17th September 1928 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 3rd October 1998, aged 70.His best films as an actor include William Beaudine's Kidnapped (1948), Orson Welles's Macbeth (1948), Franklin J. Schaffner's thriller Planet of the Apes (1968), Don Taylor's comedy-thriller Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) and Hugh Munro Neely's Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998), and whose best work as a film director include Tam Lin (1970) and The Ballad of Tam Lin (1970).
Roddy McDowall appeared in 108 films and directed 2 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: William Beaudine (2 films), Roy William Neill (2), Robert Stevenson (2), Marcel Varnel (2), John Hough (2), J. Lee Thompson (2), Harold D. Schuster (2), Clive Donner (2), Charles Matthau (2) and Budd Boetticher (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (43 films), comedy (26), Thriller (16), Horror (14), romance (11), comedy-thriller (7), comedy-drama (7), comedy-romance (5), War (5), history (4), Western (4), Fantasy (4), Biography (4), crime-thriller (3), Documentary (3) and Animation (2).
Our average rating for Roddy McDowall over all films is: 2.7
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director
I See Ice (1938) [a]
John Halifax (1938) [a]
Murder in the Family (1938) [a]
Scruffy (1938) [a]
Yellow Sands (1938) [a]
The Outsider (1939) [a]
Dead Man's Shoes (1940) [a]
His Brother's Keeper (1940) [a]
Just William (1940) [a]
Murder Will Out (1940) [a]
Saloon Bar (1940) [a]
Confirm or Deny (1941) [a]
How Green Was My Valley (1941) [a]
Man Hunt (1941) [a]
This England (1941) [a]
You Will Remember (1941) [a]
On the Sunny Side (1942) [a]
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) [a]
The Pied Piper (1942) [a]
Lassie Come Home (1943) [a]
My Friend Flicka (1943) [a]
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) [a]
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) [a]
Molly and Me (1945) [a]
Thunderhead - Son of Flicka (1945) [a]
Holiday in Mexico (1946) [a]
Kidnapped (1948) [a]
Macbeth (1948) [a]
Rocky (1948) [a]
Black Midnight (1949) [a]
Tuna Clipper (1949) [a]
Big Timber (1950) [a]
Everybody's Dancin' (1950) [a]
Killer Shark (1950) [a]
The Steel Fist (1952) [a]
The Big Country (1958) [a]
The Subterraneans (1960) [a]
Cleopatra (1963) [a]
Shock Treatment (1964) [a]
Inside Daisy Clover (1965) [a]
That Darn Cat! (1965) [a]
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) [a]
The Loved One (1965) [a]
The Third Day (1965) [a]
Lord Love a Duck (1966) [a]
The Defector (1966) [a]
It! (1967) [a]
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) [a]
The Cool Ones (1967) [a]
5 Card Stud (1968) [a]
Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969) [a]
Hello Down There (1969) [a]
Midas Run (1969) [a]
The Ballad of Tam Lin (1970) [d]
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) [a]
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) [a]
Journey to Murder (1971) [a]
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) [a]
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) [a]
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) [a]
Arnold (1973) [a]
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) [a]
The Legend of Hell House (1973) [a]
Funny Lady (1975) [a]
Embryo (1976) [a]
Mean Johnny Barrows (1976) [a]
Sixth and Main (1977) [a]
Circle of Iron (1978) [a]
Laserblast (1978) [a]
The Cat from Outer Space (1978) [a]
Scavenger Hunt (1979) [a]
The Black Hole (1979) [a]
The Martian Chronicles [TV] (1980) [a]
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981) [a]
Class of 1984 (1982) [a]
Fright Night (1985) [a]
Zoo Ship (1985) [a]
GoBots: War of the Rock Lords (1986) [a]
Dead of Winter (1987) [a]
Overboard (1987) [a]
Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1988) [a]
Fright Night Part 2 (1988) [a]
Going Hollywood: The War Years (1988) [a]
Cutting Class (1989) [a]
Heroes Stand Alone (1989) [a]
The Big Picture (1989) [a]
Going Under (1990) [a]
Shakma (1990) [a]
Double Trouble (1992) [a]
Los gusanos no llevan bufanda (1992) [a]
The Magical World of Chuck Jones (1992) [a]
Angel 4: Undercover (1993) [a]
The Evil Inside Me (1993) [a]
Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance (1994) [a]
The Color of Evening (1994) [a]
Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995) [a]
The Grass Harp (1995) [a]
It's My Party (1996) [a]
The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997) [a]
A Bug's Life (1998) [a]
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998) [a]
Something to Believe In (1998) [a]
The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
The silent era of French cinema
The best of Japanese cinema
