Roddy McDowall

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall
1928 - 1998 (lung cancer)
British born London

Height 5' 10" (1.78 m) . Roderick McDowall was born in London, the son of a Merchant Mariner father and a mother who had always wanted to be in movies. He was enrolled in elocution courses at age five and by ten had appeared in his first film, Murder in the Family (1938), playing Peter Osborne, the younger brother of sisters played by Jessica Tandy and Glynis Johns. His mother brought Roddy and his sister to the US at the beginning of World War II, and he soon got the part of Huw, youngest child in a family of Welsh coal miners, in John Ford's How Green Was My Valley (1941), acting alongside Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara and Donald Crisp in the film that won that year's best film Oscar. He went on to many other child roles, in films like My Friend Flicka (1943) and Lassie Come Home (1943) until, at age 18, he moved to New York, where he played a long series of successful stage roles, both on Broadway and in such venues as Connecticut's Stratford Festival, where he did Shakespeare. In addition to making many more movies (over 150), McDowell acted in television, developed an extensive collection of movies and Hollywood memorabilia, and published five acclaimed books of his own photography. He died at his Los Angeles home, aged 70, of cancer.

A Bug's Life (1999) , "Godzilla: The Series" (1999) , A Bug's Life (1998) , "Superman" (1998) , "The New Batman Adventures" (1998) , "Pinky and the Brain" (1996) , Something to Believe In (1998) , When It Clicks (1998) , The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997) , Loss of Faith (1997) , Unlikely Angel (1996) , "Remember WENN" (1996) , Dead Man's Island (1996) , "Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man" (1996) , "Gargoyles" (1996) , It's My Party (1996) , "Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles" (????) , Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995) , The Grass Harp (1995) , The Alien Within (1995) , Star Hunter (1995) , "Batman" (1992) , "The Tick" (1994) , Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance (1994) , "Burke's Law" (1994) , Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is (1994) , The Color of Evening (1994) , "Red Planet" (1994) , "Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron" (1993) , "Darkwing Duck" (1993) , "Dream On" (1993) , "The Pirates of Dark Water" (1992) , The Evil Inside Me (1993) , Angel 4: Undercover (1993) , Heads (1993) , The Sands of Time (1992) , "Quantum Leap" (1992) , "The New Lassie"(1990) , Double Trouble (1992/I) , Gusanos no llevan bufanda, Los (1992) , Deadly Game (1991) , An Inconvenient Woman (1991) , Earth Angel (1991) , "Nightmare Classics" (1990) , Shakma (1990) , Going Under (1990) , The Big Picture (1989) , Cutting Class (1989) , "Around the World in 80 Days" (1989/I) , "Matlock" (1987) , "Murder, She Wrote" (1985) , Heroes Stand Alone (1989) , Fright Night Part 2 (1988) , Remo Williams (1988) , Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1988) , Overboard (1987) , The Wind in the Willows (1987) , "The Wizard" (1987) , Dead of Winter (1987) , GoBots: War of the Rock Lords (1986) , "Bridges to Cross" (1986) , "George Burns Comedy Week" (1985) , Alice in Wonderland (1985) , Fright Night (1985) , "Hollywood Wives" (1985) , Zoo Ship (1985) , "Hotel" (1984) , The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984) , This Girl for Hire (1983) , "Faerie Tale Theatre" (1983) , "Small & Frye" (1983) , "Fantasy Island" (1979) , "Tales of the Gold Monkey" (1982) , Class of 1984 (1982) , Mae West (1982) , Evil Under the Sun (1982) , "Disneyland" (1980) , The Million Dollar Face (1981) , Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981) , The Return of the King (1980) , The Memory of Eva Ryker (1980) , "The Martian Chronicles" (1980) , Scavenger Hunt (1979) , The Black Hole (1979) , "Mork & Mindy" (1979) , "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979) , "Trapper John, M.D." (1979) , "A Man Called Sloane" (1979) , Hart to Hart (1979) , Nutcracker Fantasy (1979) , "Supertrain" (1979) , "The Love Boat" (1979) , Circle of Iron (1978), The Thief of Baghdad (1978) , The Immigrants (1978) , "Wonder Woman"(1977) , The Cat from Outer Space (1978), Laserblast (1978) , "The Feather and Father Gang" (1977) , "The Fantastic Journey" (1977) ,"The Rhinemann Exchange" (1977) , Sixth and Main (1977) , Mowgli's Brothers (1977) , Flood! (1976) , Embryo (1976) , "Harry O" (1976) , "Ellery Queen" (1976) , Mean Johnny Barrows (1976) , "Police Woman" (1975) , Funny Lady (1975) , The White Seal (1975) , "Planet of the Apes" (1974) , Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974) , Black Day for Bluebeard (1974) , The Elevator (1974) , Miracle on 34th Street (1973) , Arnold (1973) , "Love, American Style" (1972) , "McMillan & Wife" (1973) , Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) , The Legend of Hell House (1973) , "Barnaby Jones" (1973) , Topper Returns (1973) , "McCloud" (1972) , "Mission: Impossible" (1972) , The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) , The Poseidon Adventure (1972) , "The Rookies" (1972) , "The Delphi Bureau" (1972) , Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) , Columbo: Short Fuse (1972) , What's a Nice Girl Like You...? (1971) , "Ironside" (1971) ,A Taste of Evil (1971) , Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) , Terror in the Sky (1971) , Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) , Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) , Journey to Murder (1971) , "Medical Center" (1970) , "The Name of the Game" (1970) , , Night Gallery (1969) , Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969) , Hello Down There (1969) , Midas Run (1969) , "It Takes a Thief" (1969) , 5 Card Stud (1968) , "The Legend of Robin Hood" (1968) , Planet of the Apes (1968) , "Felony Squad" (1968) , "Hallmark Hall of Fame" (1956) , The Cool Ones (1967) , The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) , "The Invaders" (1967) , Cricket on the Hearth (1967) , "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre" (1964) , It! (1966) , The Defector (1966) , Batman" (1966) , "Run for Your Life" (1966) , "Twelve O'Clock High"(1966) , Lord Love a Duck (1966) , Inside Daisy Clover (1965), That Darn Cat! (1965) , The Loved One (1965) , The Third Day (1965) , The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) , "Ben Casey" (1965) , "Kraft Suspense Theatre" (1964) , "Combat!" (1964) , "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" (1964) , Shock Treatment (1964) , "The Eleventh Hour" (1964) , "Arrest and Trial" (1963) , "Pantomime Quiz" (1963) ,Cleopatra (1963) , The Longest Day (1962) , The Power and the Glory (1961) , "Play of the Week" (1961) , "Naked City"(1961) , "Sunday Showcase" (1960) , Midnight Lace (1960) , The Subterraneans (1960) , "The Twilight Zone" (1960) , The Tempest (1960) , "The DuPont Show of the Month" (1959) , "Oldsmobile Music Theatre" (1959) , "The United States Steel Hour" (1959) , "Playhouse 90" (1958) , "Suspicion" (1958) , "Matinee Theatre" (1957) , "Kraft Television Theatre" (1952) , "The Alcoa Hour" (1957) , "Goodyear Television Playhouse" (1954) , "The Kaiser Aluminum Hour" (1956) , "General Electric Theater" (1956) , "Kraft Television Theatre" (1954) , "The Elgin Hour" (1954) , "Robert Montgomery Presents" (1951) , "Armstrong Circle Theatre" (1954) , "Campbell Playhouse"(1954) , "Medallion Theatre" (1954) , "Broadway Television Theatre" (1952) , "Lux Video Theatre" (1951) , The Steel Fist (1952) , "Celanese Theatre" (1951), "Family Theatre" (1951) , Big Timber (1950) , Everybody's Dancin' (1950) , Killer Shark (1950) , Black Midnight (1949) , Tuna Clipper (1949) , Kidnapped (1948) , Macbeth (1948) , Rocky (1948) , Holiday in Mexico (1946) , Molly and Me (1945) , Thunderhead - Son of Flicka (1945) , The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) , The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) , Lassie Come Home (1943) , My Friend Flicka (1943) , The Pied Piper (1942) , On the Sunny Side (1942) , Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) , Confirm or Deny (1941) , How Green Was My Valley (1941) , This England (1941) , Man Hunt (1941), You Will Remember (1941) , Saloon Bar (1940) , Just William (1940) , Dead Man's Shoes (1940) , Murder Will Out (1940) , Poison Pen (1940) , His Brother's Keeper (1940) , The Outsider (1939) , Dirt (1939) , Convict 99 (1938) , John Halifax (1938) , I See Ice (1938) , Yellow Sands (1938) , Scruffy (1938) , Hey! Hey! USA (1938) , Sarah Siddons (1938) , Murder in the Family (1938)