Roddy McDowall
Birthday: September 17, 1928
Birth Place: Herne Hill, London, England, UK
Height: 5' 1"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Roddy McDowall. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

Biography

Movie Credits

A Bug's Life	(1999)
[ David Hyde Pierce ][ Brad Garrett ][ Dave Foley ][ Scott Foley ][ Richard Kind ]
A Bug's Life	(1998)
[ Kevin Spacey ][ Denis Leary ][ Julia Louis-Dreyfus ][ David Hyde Pierce ][ Brad Garrett ]
Over the Edge	(1998)
[ Jeff Bennett ]
Brainwashed: Part 2: I Am Not a Hat	(1998)
Something to Believe In	(1998)
[ Robert Wagner ][ William McNamara ]
When It Clicks	(1998)
[ Joe Morton ]
The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo	(1997)
[ Bill Campbell ]
Loss of Faith	(1997)
[ John Ritter ]
Snowball	(1996)
Unlikely Angel	(1996)
[ Allison Mack ][ Eli Marienthal ][ Brian Kerwin ][ Gary Sandy ]
Dead Man's Island	(1996)
[ William Shatner ][ David Faustino ][ Christopher Atkins ][ Jameson Parker ]
It's My Party	(1996)
[ Eric Roberts ][ Bronson Pinchot ][ Bruce Davison ][ Christopher Atkins ][ George Segal ]
Star Hunter	(1995)
Last Summer in the Hamptons	(1995)
[ Ron Rifkin ][ Andre Gregory ][ Michael Emil ]
The Grass Harp	(1995)
[ Edward Furlong ][ Sean Patrick Flanery ][ Jack Lemmon ][ Walter Matthau ][ Charles Durning ]
The Alien Within	(1995)
Trial	(1994)
[ Mark Hamill ][ George Dzundza ][ Aron Kincaid ]
Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance	(1994)
[ Mark Ruffalo ][ William Sanderson ]
Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is	(1994)
[ Robert Wagner ][ Aaron Spelling ][ Howard Keel ]
The Color of Evening	(1994)
[ Martin Landau ][ Kyle Chandler ]
The Worry Men	(1993)
The Evil Inside Me	(1993)
[ George Lazenby ][ Sage Stallone ][ Joseph Pilato ]
Heads	(1993)
[ Jon Cryer ]
Angel 4: Undercover	(1993)
[ Michael T Weiss ][ Michael T. Weiss ]
Perchance to Dream	(1992)
Mad as a Hatter	(1992)
The Sands of Time	(1992)
[ James Brolin ][ Rene Auberjonois ][ Martin Balsam ][ Michael Nouri ]
Double Trouble	(1992)
[ David Carradine ][ Kane Hodder ][ James Doohan ][ Bill Mumy ][ Lewis Arquette ]
Gusanos no llevan bufanda, Los	(1992)
[ Anthony Perkins ][ Clayton Rohner ]
Deadly Game	(1991)
An Inconvenient Woman	(1991)
[ Peter Gallagher ][ Jason Robards ][ Chad Lowe ][ Alex Rocco ][ Joseph Bologna ]
Earth Angel	(1991)
[ Mark Hamill ][ Andy Dick ][ Brian Krause ][ Erik Estrada ][ Dustin Nguyen ]
Leeds, the Judge	(1991)
Carmilla	(1990)
Going Under	(1990)
[ Dean Cain ][ Bill Pullman ][ Robert Vaughn ][ Bud Cort ][ Ned Beatty ]
Shakma	(1990)
[ Christopher Atkins ]
Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner?	(1990)
The Big Picture	(1989)
[ Kevin Bacon ][ John Cleese ][ Michael McKean ][ Elliott Gould ][ Martin Short ]
Cutting Class	(1989)
[ Brad Pitt ][ Martin Mull ]
Heroes Stand Alone	(1989)
Nightmare Classics	(1989)
[ Denholm Elliott ]
Fright Night Part 2	(1988)
[ Jon Gries ][ Brian Thompson ][ Ernie Sabella ]
Remo Williams	(1988)
Doin' Time on Planet Earth	(1988)
[ Adam West ]
The Wind in the Willows	(1987)
[ Charles Nelson Reilly ]
Dead of Winter	(1987)
[ William Russ ]
The Chef	(1987)
Overboard	(1987)
[ Kurt Russell ][ Edward Herrmann ][ Hector Elizondo ][ Garry Marshall ][ Sven-Ole Thorsen ]
GoBots: War of the Rock Lords	(1986)
[ Frank Welker ][ Telly Savalas ][ Peter Cullen ][ Michael Nouri ]
Alice in Wonderland	(1985)
[ John Stamos ][ John Amos ][ Ernest Borgnine ][ Pat Morita ][ Telly Savalas ]
Fright Night	(1985)
[ Chris Sarandon ][ Stephen Geoffries ]
Zoo Ship	(1985)
[ James Whitmore ][ Keenan Wynn ][ Craig Wasson ]
School for Scandal	(1985)
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood	(1984)
[ George Segal ][ Robert Hardy ][ Tom Baker ][ Roy Kinnear ]
This Girl for Hire	(1983)
[ Ray Walston ]
Class of 1984	(1982)
[ Michael J. Fox ][ Alice Cooper ][ Perry King ]
Mae West	(1982)
[ James Brolin ]
Evil Under the Sun	(1982)
[ James Mason ][ Peter Ustinov ]
The Cat from Outer Space: Part 2	(1982)
[ Harry Morgan ][ McLean Stevenson ][ Ken Berry ]
The Million Dollar Face	(1981)
[ Tony Curtis ][ William Daniels ]
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen	(1981)
[ Peter Ustinov ][ Brian Keith ][ Richard Hatch ]
Devil and Mr. Roarke/Ziegfeld Girls/Kid Corey Rides Again	(1981)
That Darn Cat!	(1980)
The Return of the King	(1980)
[ John Huston ][ Casey Kasem ]
The Memory of Eva Ryker	(1980)
[ Peter Graves ][ Mel Ferrer ][ Ralph Bellamy ]
The Devil and Mandy Breem, The/Millionaire	(1980)
[ Adam West ]
Scavenger Hunt	(1979)
[ Arnold Schwarzenegger ][ Vincent Price ][ Dirk Benedict ][ Willie Aames ][ Scatman Crothers ]
The Black Hole	(1979)
[ Ernest Borgnine ][ Anthony Perkins ][ Robert Forster ][ Slim Pickens ][ Maximilian Schell ]
Hart to Hart	(1979)
[ Robert Wagner ][ Aaron Spelling ][ Michael Lerner ]
The Chain Gang/The Boss	(1979)
Nutcracker Fantasy	(1979)
[ Christopher Lee ][ Dick Van Patten ]
Bowling/Command Performances	(1979)
Rabbit Test	(1978)
[ Billy Crystal ][ Ron Rifkin ][ Paul Lynde ][ Billy Barty ][ Alex Rocco ]
Laserblast	(1978)
[ Keenan Wynn ][ Eddie Deezen ]
Circle of Iron	(1978)
[ Christopher Lee ][ David Carradine ][ Eli Wallach ]
The Thief of Baghdad	(1978)
[ Ian Holm ][ Terence Stamp ][ Peter Ustinov ]
The Immigrants	(1978)
[ John Saxon ][ Pernell Roberts ][ Jameson Parker ]
The Cat from Outer Space	(1978)
[ Harry Morgan ][ McLean Stevenson ][ Ken Berry ]
Mowgli's Brothers	(1977)
Sixth and Main	(1977)
[ Leslie Nielsen ]
The Man Who Made Volcanoes	(1977)
Flood!	(1976)
[ Leif Garrett ][ Robert Culp ]
Embryo	(1976)
[ Rock Hudson ][ Vincent Baggetta ]
Mean Johnny Barrows	(1976)
[ Elliott Gould ][ Fred Williamson ][ Mike Henry ][ Leon Isaac Kennedy ]
Funny Lady	(1975)
[ James Caan ][ Omar Sharif ][ Ben Vereen ]
The White Seal	(1975)
Up Above the World So High	(1974)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry	(1974)
[ Peter Fonda ][ Vic Morrow ]
Black Day for Bluebeard	(1974)
[ Vincent Price ][ William Devane ]
The Elevator	(1974)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes	(1973)
[ John Huston ][ Claude Akins ]
The Legend of Hell House	(1973)
[ Michael Gough ]
Topper Returns	(1973)
Miracle on 34th Street	(1973)
[ Tom Bosley ]
Arnold	(1973)
[ Jamie Farr ][ Farley Granger ]
Love and the Know-It-All/Love and the Perfect Wife/Love and the Sensuous Twin/Love and the Triple Threat	(1972)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean	(1972)
[ Paul Newman ][ Anthony Perkins ][ John Huston ][ Stacy Keach ][ Ned Beatty ]
The Poseidon Adventure	(1972)
[ Gene Hackman ][ Leslie Nielsen ][ Ernest Borgnine ][ John Williams ][ Jack Albertson ]
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes	(1972)
[ Ricardo Montalban ][ Don Murray ]
Columbo: Short Fuse	(1972)
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin: Part 3	(1971)
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin: Part 2	(1971)
[ Karl Malden ]
What's a Nice Girl Like You...?	(1971)
[ Vincent Price ][ Jack Warden ][ Michael Lerner ]
A Taste of Evil	(1971)
[ Aaron Spelling ]
Bedknobs and Broomsticks	(1971)
[ David Tomlinson ]
Terror in the Sky	(1971)
[ Keenan Wynn ][ Doug McClure ]
Escape from the Planet of the Apes	(1971)
[ Ricardo Montalban ][ M. Emmet Walsh ][ Sal Mineo ]
Pretty Maids All in a Row	(1971)
[ Rock Hudson ][ Telly Savalas ][ James Doohan ][ Keenan Wynn ]
Journey to Murder	(1971)
[ Joseph Cotten ][ David Warbeck ]
Night Gallery	(1969)
[ Ossie Davis ][ Tom Bosley ]
Angel, Angel, Down We Go	(1969)
Hello Down There	(1969)
[ Richard Dreyfuss ][ Tony Randall ][ Ken Berry ]
Midas Run	(1969)
[ Fred Astaire ][ Richard Crenna ][ Cesar Romero ]
5 Card Stud	(1968)
[ Robert Mitchum ][ Dean Martin ][ Yaphet Kotto ]
Planet of the Apes	(1968)
[ Charlton Heston ][ James Whitmore ][ Robert Gunner ]
The Flip Side of Fear: Part 1	(1968)
The White Birch	(1968)
[ Pete Duel ]
The Cool Ones	(1967)
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin	(1967)
[ Karl Malden ]
Cricket on the Hearth	(1967)
[ Aaron Spelling ]
The Bookworm Turns	(1966)
[ Johnny Crawford ]
Lord Love a Duck	(1966)
[ Harvey Korman ]
It!	(1966)
The Defector	(1966)
[ Montgomery Clift ]
Inside Daisy Clover	(1965)
[ Robert Redford ][ Christopher Plummer ][ Harold Gould ]
That Darn Cat!	(1965)
[ Walt Disney ]
The Loved One	(1965)
[ Rod Steiger ][ John Gielgud ][ Jamie Farr ][ Dana Andrews ][ Jonathan Winters ]
The Third Day	(1965)
[ George Peppard ]
The Greatest Story Ever Told	(1965)
[ John Wayne ][ Charlton Heston ][ Sidney Poitier ][ Max von Sydow ][ Martin Landau ]
The Gentleman Caller	(1964)
Shock Treatment	(1964)
[ Ossie Davis ]
Mr. Biddle's Crime Wave	(1964)
Wake Up, Darling	(1964)
Episode dated 5 August 1963	(1963)
Cleopatra	(1963)
[ Richard Burton ][ Martin Landau ][ Carroll O'Connor ][ Rex Harrison ][ Desmond Llewelyn ]
Bye Bye Birdie	(1963)
[ Dick Van Dyke ][ Paul Lynde ][ Bobby Rydell ]
The Longest Day	(1962)
[ Sean Connery ][ John Wayne ][ Henry Fonda ][ Robert Mitchum ][ Richard Burton ]
The Power and the Glory	(1961)
[ Laurence Olivier ][ George C Scott ][ George C. Scott ][ Keenan Wynn ]
The Tempest	(1960)
[ Richard Burton ][ Tom Poston ]
Midnight Lace	(1960)
[ Rex Harrison ]
The Subterraneans	(1960)
[ George Peppard ]
The Woman with Red Hair	(1958)
White-Headed Boy	(1957)
Rain in the Morning	(1957)
Talk You of Killing?	(1957)
The Vicarious Years	(1957)
A Night of Rain	(1957)
The Good Fairy	(1956)
In the Days of Our Youth	(1956)
Emma	(1954)
The Shop at Sly Corner	(1954)
Buy Me Blue Ribbons	(1954)
Philip Goes Forth	(1954)
Great Expectations: Part 1	(1954)
Philip Goes Forth	(1952)
The Steel Fist	(1952)
When We Are Married	(1951)
[ Peter Cushing ]
The Blues Street	(1951)
Big Timber	(1950)
Everybody's Dancin'	(1950)
Killer Shark	(1950)
Black Midnight	(1949)
Tuna Clipper	(1949)
Kidnapped	(1948)
[ Dan O'Herlihy ]
Macbeth	(1948)
[ Orson Welles ][ Dan O'Herlihy ]
Rocky	(1948)
Holiday in Mexico	(1946)
Molly and Me	(1945)
Thunderhead - Son of Flicka	(1945)
The Keys of the Kingdom	(1944)
[ Gregory Peck ][ Vincent Price ]
The White Cliffs of Dover	(1944)
[ Van Johnson ]
Lassie Come Home	(1943)
My Friend Flicka	(1943)
On the Sunny Side	(1942)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake	(1942)
[ Tyrone Power ][ George Sanders ]
The Pied Piper	(1942)
Confirm or Deny	(1941)
[ Fritz Lang ][ Don Ameche ]
How Green Was My Valley	(1941)
[ Maureen O'Hara ][ Jack Lord ][ John Ford ]
This England	(1941)
Man Hunt	(1941)
[ Fritz Lang ][ George Sanders ]
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)
[ George Sanders ]
Dirt	(1939)
Murder in the Family	(1938)
Hey! Hey! USA	(1938)
Sarah Siddons	(1938)
I See Ice	(1938)
Yellow Sands	(1938)
John Halifax	(1938)
Scruffy	(1938)
Convict 99	(1938)
Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes	(0)

Trivia

• Performed custom voice-over work for the Training Level of the PlayStation game, "A Bug's Life" (1998). [source: game credits]
• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) honor Roddy McDowall for his acting career and critically acclaimed photography by naming its photo archive after him. The collection, which includes several millions of negatives and stills, will be known as the Roddy McDowall Photograph Archive at the Margaret Herrick Library. [December 1998]
• Ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean. [1998]
• Roddy has appeared in two separate television series of Batman. The original 1960s series (as Bookworm), and 'Batman: The Animated Series' (as the Mad Hatter).
• In addition to appearing on both the original and animated "Batman" TV series, he also the reader for the book-on-tape version of the novelization of the first "Batman" film (1989).
• Roddy McDowall was a rarity among movie stars in that he appears to have made no enemies at all during his lifetime. A man with numerous friends both in and out of show business, those who knew him continue to speak well of him to this day, and his funeral drew overflow crowds.
• Brother of Virginia McDowall.
• An accomplished ballroom dancer, he won both the Charleston and Cha-Cha contests on the "Arthur Murray Party" TV show in the 1950s.
• Introduced Carol Lawrence to Robert Goulet. In fact, she jokingly said that McDowell was responsible for her's and Goulet's first child.
• Became a close, life-long friend with Peggy Ann Garner while filming "The Pied Piper" with her in 1941.
• Won Broadway's 1960 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for "The Fighting Cock."
• A clerical error on the part of 20th Century Fox cost McDowall a likely Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor for his role as Caesar Augustus Octavian in Cleopatra (1963). The studio erroneously listed McDowall as a leading player rather than a supporting one. When Fox asked the Academy to correct their error, it refused, saying the ballots already were at the printer. Fox then published an open letter in the trade papers, apologizing to McDowall: "We feel that it is important that the industry realize that your electric performance as Octavian in 'Cleopatra,' which was unanimously singled out by the critics as one of the best supporting performances by an actor this year, is not eligible for an Academy Award nomination in that category...due to a regrettable error on the part of 20th Century Fox."
• In 1974, the FBI raided the home of Roddy McDowall and seized the actor's collection of films and TV series during an investigation of copyright infringement and movie piracy. McDowall's collection consisted of 160 16mm prints and over 1,000 videocassettes. The value of the films was conservatively assessed at ,005,426 by representatives of the movie industry. The actor was not charged and agreed to cooperate with the FBI. There was then no aftermarket for films, as the commercial video recorder had not been marketed, and studios routinely destroyed old negatives and prints of classic films they felt had no worth. Film buffs, like McDowall, had to purchase 16mm prints of films from the studios, or movie prints on the black-market, or from other collectors. He claimed that he had once had as many as 337 movies in his collection, but at the time of the investigation, he was not sure how many were still in his possession. He had bought Errol Flynn's movie collection, and had acquired other films through purchases or swaps. McDowall told the FBI that he had transferred many of his films to videotape in order to conserve space and because tape was longer-lasting than film, and subsequently had sold or traded the prints, plus other prints of movies he had lost interest in, to other collectors. He said that he collected the films due to his love of the cinema and to help protect the movies' heritage. McDowall also said that being in possession of prints of his own films allowed him to study his acting and improve his craft. One of the films he had purchased, from American-International Pictures, was Tam-Lin, a movie he himself had directed. He explained that he believed that he was not in violation of copyright, as he was not showing the films for profit, nor trying to make a profit when selling his prints as he charged only what he remembered as the price he himself paid. He believed he had purchased some of the films outright from 20th Century Fox, but learned subsequently from his lawyer that his agreement with Fox meant the studio retained ownership of the prints, and that he was forbidden to sell, trade or lend them out. McDowall was forthcoming about the individuals he dealt with on the black market, and also named Rock Hudson, Dick Martin and Mel Torme as other celebrities with film collections.
• Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 396-398. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Became a close, life-long friend with Peggy Ann Garner while filming The Pied Piper (1942) with her in 1941.
• Final stage appearance was as Ebenezer Scrooge in the New York City production of "A Christmas Carol" in 1997. He alternated performances with Hal Linden.
• On March 10, 1965, he attended the Los Angeles premiere of The Sound of Music (1965) as the date of the movie's star, Julie Andrews.
• Life-long friend of Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor has since referred to him as the one friend she had to whom she confided everything, and who was always understanding.
• An accomplished ballroom dancer, he won both the Charleston and Cha-Cha contests on the "The Arthur Murray Party" (1950).

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