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  Roddy McDowall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
McDowall was born in London to a Scottish father, Thomas Andrew McDowall, and an Irish mother, Winifred.
McDowall was one of the few child actors to continue his career successfully into adulthood, but it was usually in character roles, notably in four of the five original Planet of the Apes movies (1968 - 1973).
McDowall was forthcoming about some of the individuals he had dealt with on the fl market: Rock Hudson, Dick Martin and Mel Torme were some of the celebrities that were interested in his creations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roddy_McDowall   (552 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall
McDowall did not appear in the 1970 sequel "Beneath the Planet of the Apes,'' but did return for "Escape from the Planet of the Apes'' (1971), "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes'' (1972), "Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) and a television series.
Roddy was as recently as last month busily helping with the celebration of the 30th anniversary of "Planet of the Apes'' for which he did a special video, having starred in four of the five features.
McDowall is one of Hollywood's strongest supporters -- not only the industry, its players and its product, but a constant and active contributor to the Motion Picture and TV Fund with royalties from his beautiful books, ``Double Exposure,'' his photos of friends, the great and near/great, along with stories about them.
theforbidden-zone.com /news/roddynews.shtml   (928 words)

  
 Bio for Roddy McDowall on MSN Movies
McDowall arrival in Hollywood coincided with the wishes of 20th Century-Fox executive Darryl F. Zanuck to create a "new Freddie Bartholomew." He tested for the juvenile lead in Fox's How Green Was My Valley (1941), winning both the role and a long contract.
McDowall left films for the most part in the 1950s, preferring TV and stage work; among his Broadway credits were No Time for Sergeants, Compulsion, (in which he co-starred with fellow former child star Dean Stockwell) and Lerner and Loewe's Camelot (as Mordred).
McDowall's most frequent assignments between 1968 and 1975 found him in elaborate simian makeup as Cornelius in the Planet of the Apes theatrical films and TV series.
entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=117430   (468 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
McDowall feels the reason for this is because he loved acting as a child and did it freely and not because he was being punished by his parents.
McDowall was born in London and it was here that he began his career, making the film "Murder in the Family" at the tender age of eight.
McDowall talks about his Hollywood friends as 'legends', 'giants', and being the modest man that he is never dares to mention himself in the same breath.
members.aol.com /gmannual/roddy.html   (755 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall dead at 70
Roddy McDowall, who provoked tears of sadness, sympathy and joy from millions of moviegoers for his boyhood roles in "How Green Was My Valley," "Lassie Come Home" and other film classics of the 1940s, died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles.
McDowall, who went on to become a versatile character actor on screen and on stage, was 70.
Roderick McDowall was born in London on Sept. 17, 1928.
www.recordonline.com /1998/10/04/roddyobi.htm   (917 words)

  
 Tribute to Roddy McDowall
Eventually type-cast in teenage roles, the 23 year old Roddy left Hollywood to work on stage and TV in New York, but he returned to ten years later and successfully made the transition to adult roles.
Roddy has also tried his hand at producing, his first film, "Tam Lin" in 1968, was shelved but his second, the Goldie Hawn vehicle, "Overboard" in 1988, was a huge hit.
Roddy was living proof that there is always a percentage of successes for the so-called plight of ex-child stars.
www.actordatabase.com /roddymcdowall   (442 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall
McDowall's other career was as a celebrity photographer -- he published his first collection, ``Double Exposure,'' in 1966 -- and his death comes just days after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to name its photo archive after him.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Roddy McDowall, the English-born actor who starred as a child in ``Lassie Come Home'' and made a generation of new fans as an adult in ``Planet of the Apes,'' died Saturday at his home of cancer, associates said.
McDowall, the London-born son of a Scottish merchant seaman who was evacuated to United States during World War II, started his film career at age 8 and appeared in 22 films before landing in Hollywood where he starred with a young Elizabeth Taylor in 1943 in ``Lassie Come Home.''
theforbidden-zone.com /news/roddynews2.shtml   (2148 words)

  
 CNN - Actor Roddy McDowall dies at 70 - October 3, 1998
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Roddy McDowall, a British child actor who became a film star in "How Green Was My Valley" and "Lassie Come Home" and as an adult proved a versatile performer in theater, television and films that included "The Planet of the Apes," died Saturday.
McDowall died at his home in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, said Dennis Osborne, a friend who said he had cared for the actor in his final months.
The 11-year-old McDowall was among the children evacuated to the United States after the Blitz, the German bombardment of London, began in 1940.
www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9810/03/mcdowall.death   (543 words)

  
 Stairwell Studios Presents Dr. Daniel's Movie Emergency - Roddy McDowall
Roddy McDowall was one of the last celebrities to be able to stay in Hollywood's graces and still keep a low profile.
Little twitches of the facial muscles under all that latex, or a small tilt of the head, or a flash of a widening eye, and he was able to portray the same emotions that others had to go full-force to show.
Roddy's portrait, though, is of a different Elizabeth Taylor.
www.stairwell.com /doc/roddy.html   (1147 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall at Reel Classics: Article: That Lad Has Come Far From 'Lassie' -- Roddy McDowall
McDowall has moved from child star to character actor, back and forth between Broadway and Hollywood, an arc that reaches all the way to his current role as Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" at Madison Square Garden (in which he alternates with Hal Linden).
McDowall is still best remembered for the films that first made his reputation: "How Green Was My Valley" and "Lassie Come Home," both classics, not least of all because of his remarkably sensitive performances, in the first as the son of a Welsh coal-mining family, in the second as Lassie's master.
McDowall said of Knight, "was to have enough grit and stamina, to survive and to retain one's decency."
www.reelclassics.com /Actors/Roddy/roddy-article.htm   (1348 words)

  
 TCM remembers Roddy Mcdowall
Roddy McDowall died Saturday at the age of 70.
McDowall lent his stately screen persona to the role of Cornelius in Planet of the Apes (1971) and repeated the part in the films many sequels, including Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).
McDowall maintained a presence in Hollywood throughout his career with a steady supply of children’s films like That Darned Cat (1965), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloobut (1997).
alt.tcm.turner.com /events/obits/mcdowall.htm   (367 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall, McDowell, McDowel, Galen, Ceasar, Caesar
Playing multiple characters in both the movie series and the TV series McDowall was the one actor that had to be worked into the Apes saga in one way or the other.
McDowall played Cornelius a scientific sort in the first film that finds the prospect of a talking Man Taylor, and his tale of a world where man ruled to be intriguing.
McDowall returns in the fourth film as Ceasar, the son of his former Cornelius character.
www.movieprop.com /tvandmovie/PlanetoftheApes/roddymcdowalll.htm   (317 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall
McDowall died at his home in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, said Dennis Osborne, a friend who had cared for the actor.
McDowall was diagnosed in April with an incurable cancer spread throughout his body, Osborne said.
McDowall was survived by his sister, Virginia McDowall of Los Angeles.
www.lassie.net /roddy.htm   (917 words)

  
 Biography for Roddy McDowall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Roddy McDowall was a rarity among movie stars in that he appears to have made no enemies at all during his lifetime.
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.
McDowall won the admiration of a new generation of fans in two 1980s horror movies, playing horror-movie-host-turnedvampire-hunter Peter Vincent in Fright Night (1985 and its 1989 sequel).
www.imdb.com /name/nm0001522/bio   (1583 words)

  
 A Tribute to Roddy McDowall
Roddy McDowall always displayed such energy and youthfulness, even well after his years as a child actor were over, that it's hard to believe he was 70 years old when he died.
Roddy's career began at the age of 10, when he appeared in the English film Scruffy, and continued after he escaped to the U.S. from the land of his birth in 1940 in order to escape the German bombings of WWII.
Roddy was also a respected still photographer, with five books of photographs to his credit.
www.classicmovies.org /articles/aa101198.htm   (640 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall Guestbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
roddy mcdowall will always be one of my favrite actors.i loved watching him in the planet of the apes, movies and the t.v series when i was growing up in the 1970's.i still enjoy watching him today.thank you for the great memiores.jonathan cox,deniliquin,australia.
It was caled "A Tribute to Roddy McDowall" and it had tons of stuff on him including a mothly guide to when he's on TV, loads of pictures,lists of all his credits [film, TV, and stage], you name it...it was the most information I'd ever found on him in one place.
McDowall (who was working on Bullwhip Griffin with her brother) had encouraged her mother to be sure the children had an eduction and a profession for the day when their child acting career would end -- which happend shortly thereafter.
www.roddymcdowall.info /guestbook.html   (16257 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall Terminally Ill, Report Says - Sep 18, 1998 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sep 18, 1998, 1:40 PM PT Roddy McDowall, one of Hollywood's most durable names, reportedly has terminal cancer.
As recently as last month, McDowall participated in several celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of Planet of the Apes, perhaps the zenith of his adult career.
McDowall gained fame in the early '40s with kiddie roles in How Green Was My Valley, My Friend Flicka and opposite pal Elizabeth Taylor in Lassie Come Home.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,3619,00.html   (366 words)

  
 Actor Roddy McDowall Dead - Oct 03, 1998 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oct 3, 1998, 10:25 PM PT Actor Roddy McDowall, whose versatile 60-year career spanned the realm of the animal-kingdom experience--from Lassie Come Home to Planet of the Apes--not to mention the Hollywood experience, died today of cancer at his Studio City, California, home.
Stalwart members of old Hollywood were said to have made pilgrimages to McDowall's home in recent days--paying tribute to a most-respected member of the community.
McDowall appeared in four of the five sci-fi/fantasy flicks (missing only 1970's Beneath the Planet of the Apes) and the short-lived 1974 TV series.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,3693,00.html?newsrellink   (416 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall
McDowall, who was also a respected photographer, enjoyed capturing other celebrities on film and some of his work can be seen in his book
Roddy McDowall - Roddy McDowall (Roderick McDowall) actor Born: 9/17/1928 Birthplace: London, England A child star...
Roddy McDowall - Actor, born 17 September 1928, Cornelius and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes movie series
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0766182.html   (245 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall - The films, movies, cinema, biography of British movie actor
A personal favourite of mine, not least for the development of his character from fearful to hopeful, he was excellent in the sight nuances of the obviously terrified Van Helsing type role.
The film introduced Roddy to children of the eighties (of which I was one) and hence into his other work.
He was briefly an advising photographic editor of Harper's Bazaar, and in 1966 published the first of several collections of his camera work, Double Exposure.
www.britishcinemagreats.com /Actors_page/roddy_mcdowall/roddy_mcdowall_page_2.htm   (418 words)

  
 AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - Roddy McDowall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Roddy McDowall was born Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall in London, England, on September 17, 1928.
McDowall became a star student at the Hanover Academy of Dramatic Art and was soon acting in English films, the most notable being Scruffy (1938).
So long before McDowall donned the ape suit for his most iconic role in Planet of the Apes (1968), he was a child-star of epic proportions thanks to Ford's savvy casting.
www.amctv.com /person/detail/0,,2532-1-EST,00.html   (796 words)

  
 Double Exposure: The Roddy McDowall Fanlisting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Welcome to Double Exposure, the Roddy McDowall Fanlisting.
From his early years as a child star in the 1940s to his passing in 1998, Roddy McDowall’s ever-youthful face and distinctive soft voice were a constant and familiar fixture in films and television.
The companion to such animal stars as Lassie and Flicka in his youth, he went on to be arguably best-known for his simian roles in the Planet of the Apes saga, as well as "the fearless vampire killer" Peter Vincent in the Fright Night films.
jordanna.net /fan/mcdowall   (108 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall
Besides his multiple talents, I admire him as a man of honor, integrity, and trustworthiness - qualities which seem to be lacking in today's world.
This web page is not meant to compete with the other Roddy McDowall tributes on the Internet.
Here you'll find magazine articles from Roddy's early days in film, personal snapshots, and even old fan club materials.
www.roddymcdowall.info   (132 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall - MovieActors.com
Roddy McDowall was born in London, his real name was "Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall".
Roddy McDowall in THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE
Roddy McDowall in EVIL UNDER THE SUN (1982)
www.movieactors.com /actors/roddymcdowall.htm   (66 words)

  
 Roddy McDowall
Former child model and prolific juvenile actor who took a break from films in 1951 and returned, after a decade of theater work, in the early 1960s.
McDowall's roles ranged from apes (PLANET OF THE APES, 1968 and its three sequels) to apostles (THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, 1965).
He has directed one film, THE DEVIL'S WIDOW (1972), and published Double Exposure and Double Exposure Take Two, collections of his photographs, in 1966 and 1989 respectively.
www.theforbidden-zone.com /bios/mcdowall.shtml   (160 words)

  
 GoneMovie.com -> Planet of the apes starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
George Taylor (Charlton Heston), one of four astronauts on board of a spaceship, joins his fellows in deep sleep.
Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) and Dr. Zira (Kim Hunter), two chimpanzee scientists who take an interest in Taylor give him a woman, Nova (Linda Harrison), hoping he will mate.
Apes vary in size from the 3 ft (90 cm) gibbon to the 6 ft (1.8 m) gorilla.
www.gonemovies.com /WWW/WanadooFilms/ScienceFiction/EnglischPlanetApes.asp   (327 words)

  
 Arrow In The Head's movie review of Fright Night: Chris Sarandon/Jerry, Roddy McDowall/Peter Vincent, William ...
Fright Night’s intentions are not really to scare the crap out of you, although the flick does have its "brrr" moments (all about the Jerry in Charlie’s bedroom scene).
Roddy McDowall (Peter Vincent) is a treat as the horror host with the most, he brings a touch of class to the flick.
On October 3 1998, Roddy McDowall died at home at the age of 70.
www.joblo.com /arrow/reviews.php?id=343   (1044 words)

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