RODDY McDOWALL

 

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When you talk about Planet Of The Apes there is one name that is always recognizable - the amazing Roddy McDowall

Roddy was involved with more aspects of the POTA legacy than any other individual in its 35 year history.   Roddy appeared in all 5 films, the tv series, the made for tv movies, the sci-fi channel POTA marathons, and the recent ACM POTA special!

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Roddy McDowall, the British-born actor who starred as a child in "Lassie Come Home" and as an adult in "Planet of the Apes," died Saturday at his home of cancer, associates said.  The news that McDowall, 70, had been terminally ill with cancer shocked Hollywood when it became public two weeks ago.   For full story on Roddy McDowall see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556411425-fff

Roddy McDowall, a child actor in Britain who became a film star in “How Green Was My Valley” and “Lassie Come Home,” and who as an adult proved a versatile performer in theater, television and films that included “The Planet of the Apes,” died Saturday after being diagnosed in April with cancer. He was 70.   Roddy 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.   “It was very peaceful,” Osborne said. “It was just as he wanted it. It was exactly the way he planned.” (submitted from classicfilm.miningco.com Oct 7 1998)

There are a number of great websites dedicated specifically to Roddy McDowall.    Here are the best ones:

Sally Mierop's Roddy McDowall http://www.ameritech.net/users/rm_fan/roddy.html?

Classic Film Site - Roddy McDowall http://classicfilm.about.com

Welcome to a Tribute to Roddy McDowall http://www.smithway.org/rm/frame3.html

Roddy McDowall Biography http://members.aol.com/gmannual/roddy.html

Roddy McDowall mailing list http://www.smithway.org/rm/roddy.html (submitted by Mel 4/22/99) isantos@mail.win.org

Roddy McDowall Website Links Page http://www.starpages.net/cgi-bin/star.pl?ACT=SEARCH&s=Roddy+McDowall

McDOWALL, RODDY

ACTOR

1936 Murder in the Family

1937 Just William

1937 Scruffy

1938 I See Ice

1938 Convict 99

1938 Yellow Sands

1938 John Halifax - Gentleman

1938 Sarah Siddons

1938 Hey Hey USA

1938 Poison Pen

1939 The Outsider

1939 Dead Man's Shoes

1939 His Brothers Keeper

1939 Dirt

1939 Murder Will Out

1940 You Will Remember

1940 Saloon Bar

1941 This England/Our Heritage

1941 Man Hunt

1941 Confirm or Deny

1941 How Green Was My Valley

1942 Son of Fury

1942 The Pied Piper

1943 On the Sunny Side

1943 Lassie Come Home

1943 My Friend Flicka

1944 White Cliffs of Dover

1944 The Keys of the Kingdom

1945 Molly and Me

1945 Thunderhead - Son of Flicka

1945 Hangover Square

1946 Holiday in Mexico

1948 Rocky

1948 Green Grass of Wyoming

1948 Macbeth

1948 Kidnapped

1949 Big Timber

1949 Tuna Clipper

1950 Black Midnight

1950 Killer Shark

1950 Everybody's Dancing

1951 When We Are Married

1952 Steel Fist

1952 It Pays to Advertise

1960 The Subterraneans

1960 Midnight Lace

1961 In a Garden

1962 The Longest Day

1963 The Tempest

1963 The Gentleman Caller

1963 Cleopatra

1964 See the Monkey Dance

1964 Wake Up Darling

1964 Mr. Biddle's Crime Wave

1964 The Wine Dark Sea

1964 Shock Treatment

1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965 That Darn Cat

1965 The Loved One

1965 The Third Day

1965 Inside Daisy Clover

1966 Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

1966 Lord Love a Duck

1966 Fatal Mistake

1966 The Defector

1966 Is Paris Burning

1967 It!/Curse of the Golem

1967 The Cool Ones

1968 Planet of the Apes

1968 Five Card Stud

1969 Midas Run

1969 Angel, Angel, Down We Go

1969 Hello Down There

1970 The White Birch

1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes

1971 Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971 Pretty Maids All in a Row

1971 Corky

1972 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

1972 Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

1972 Poseidon Adventure

1973 The Legend of Hell House

1973 Arnold

1973 Battle for the Planet of the Apes

1973 Topper Returns

1974 Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry

1974 Funny Lady

1975 White Seal

1975 Embryo

1976 Mean Johnny Barrows

1977 Sixth and Main

1977 Rabbit Test

1978 The Cat from Outer Space

1978 Laserblast

1979 Black Hole

1979 Nutcracker Fantasy

1979 Circle of Iron/Silent Flute

1979 Scavenger Hunt

1980 Return of the King

1981 Charlie Chan and Curse of the Dragon Queen

1981 Class of 1984

1982 Evil Under the Sun

1983 Small and Frye

1984 Zoo Ship

1985 Fright Night

1985 Vista

1985 Deceptions

1986 Dead of Winter

1987 Shadow of Death

1987 Overboard

1987 Fright Night 2

1987 Lerner and Lowe

1987 The Big Picture

1988 Doin Time of Planet Earth

1988 Going Hollywood: The War Years

1989 Heroes Stand Alone

1989 Cutting Class

1990 Shakma

1991 The Color of Evening

1992 Double Trouble

1992 Magic World of Chuck Jones

1992 The Naked Forest

1994 Angel 4: Undercover

1994 Heads

1994 Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance

1995 Last Summer in the Hamptons

1995 Grass Harp

1996 It's My Party

1996 Unknown Origin

1996 Fatally Yours

1997 Jungle Book 2: Mowgly and Baloo

TV - ACTING

1948 Ah Wilderness

TV PILOTS

1969 Night Gallery

1973 Topper Returns

1979 Hart to Hart

1981 The Million dollar Face

1981 Judgement Days

1982 Twilight Theatre

1983 This Girld For Hire

1984 London and Davis in New York

1988 Remo Williams

TV SERIES - GUEST ACTOR

1951 Theater Ofromance

1953 Campbell TV Soundstage

1954 A Suitable Marriage

1954 Buy Me Blue Ribbons

1954 My client McDuff

1954 The Reality

1954 Philip Goes Forth

1954 Emma

1954 Yesterday's Magic

1954 Elgin Hour

1955 The Silver Box

1955 Pounds Theater

1955 Matinee Theater

1955 Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucke Strike Theater

1955 Goodyear Television Playhouse

1955 Arthur Murray Party

1956 The Good Fairy

1956 In the Days of Our Youth

1956 Gwyneth

1956 Kaiser Aluminum Hour

1957 The Vicarious Years

1957 Talk You of Killing

1957 A Night of Rain

1957 Rain in the Spring The Treasure Hunters

1957 White Headed Boy

1957 The Alcoa Hour

He's For Me

1958 The Woman With Red Hair

1958 Last of the Belles

1959 Night of Betrayal

1959 Too Bad About Sheila Troy

1959 DuPont Show of the Month

Billy Budd

1959 Oldsmobile Music Theatre

1960 The Twilight Zone

People Are Alike

1960 Naked City

1960 Playhouse 90

Heart of Darkness

1963 Arrest and Trial

1966 Batman

 

Bookworm

1967 The Invaders

1974 McMillan and Wife

1977 Wonder Woman

1980 Fantasy Island

 

Mephistopheles

1985 George Burns Comedy Week

1985 Murder, She Wrote

1987 Matlock

1989 Nightmare Classics

 

Carmilla

1989 American Masters

 

Harold Lloyd

1989 Crazy About the Movies

 

Montgomery

1991 Crazy About the Movies

 

Dennis Hopper

1991 Dark Waters

1992 Adventures of Batman & Robin

1992 Crazy About the Movies

 

Ava Gardner

1993 Biography

 

John Ford

1994 Hart to Hart

 

Home Is Where the Heart Is

1994 Gargoyles

1995 Biography

 

Darryl F. Zanuck

1995 Boris Karloff: The Gentle Monster

1996 Biography

 

Alice Faye

Carmen Miranda

TV SPECIALS

1951 Ah Wilderness

1956 Hallmark Hall of Fame

 

Good Fairy

1960 The Best of Anything

1960 Hallmark Hall of Fame

 

Tempest

1960 Equitable's American Heritage

 

Not Without Honor

1961 The Power and the Glory

1967 Hallmark Hall of Fame

 

Saint Joan

1977 An All Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor

1982 Circus of the Stars

1987 Happy Birthday, Hollywood

1988 Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration

1989 America's All Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor

1989 When We Were Young... Growing Up on the Silver Screen

1991 Stars and Stripes: Hollywood and World War II

1991 Going Under

1991 A Precious Moments Xmas

 

Timmys Gift

1992 MGM: When the Lion Roars

 

The MGM Story

1997 20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years

TV MOVIES

1971 A Taste of Evil

1971 Terror in the Sky

1971 What's a Nice Girl Like You?

1973 A Miracle of 34th Street

1974 The Elevator

1976 Flood

1978 The Immigrants

1978 The Thief of Baghdad

1980 The Memory of Eva Ryker

1981 Back to the Planet of the Apes

1981 The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes

1981 Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes

1981 Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes

1981 Farewell to the Planet of the Apes

1982 Mae West

1984 Zany Adventures of Robin Hood

1985 Alice in Wonderland

1987 The Wind in the Willows

1991 Deadly Game

1991 Earth Angel

1994 Heads

1995 Alien Within/Unknown Origin

1996 Unlikely Angel

1996 Dead Man's Island

TV SERIES

1974 Planet of the Apes

1977 The Fantastic Journey

1979 The New Planet of the Apes

1982 Tales of the Gold Monkey

1986 Bridges to Cross

1996 Sex and the Silver Screen

TV MINI SERIES

1977 The Rhinemann Exchange

1980 The Martian Chronicles

1985 Hollywood Wives

1989 Around the World in 80 Days

1991 An Incovenient Woman

1992 Sidney Sheldon's Sands of Times

PRODUCER FILMOGRAPHY

1987 Overboard

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY

1971 Tam Lin/The Ballad of Tam-Lin/The Devil's Widow/The Devil's Woman

VIDEO MOVIES

1995 Star Hunter

THEATER

1946 Young Woodley

1947 Macbeth

1948 The First Mrs. Fraser

1949 The Hasty Heart

1950 O Mistress Mine

1951 The Youngest

1952 Remains to Be Seen

1953 Misalliance

1955 Escapade

1955 The Doctor's Dilemma

1955 The Tempest

1955 Julius Caesar

1955 No Time For Sergeants

1956 The Diary of a Scoundrel

1957 Good as Gold

1957 Compulsion

1958 A Handfull of Fire

1959 Look After Lulu

1959 The Fighting Cock

1960 Camelot

1976 Charley's Aunt

1978 Otherwise Engaged

1980 Harvey

BOOKS - CELEBRITY PHOTOS ESSAYS

1966 Double Exposure

1989 Double Exposure Take Two: A Gallery

1990 Double Exposure (second edition)

1992 Double Exposuse Take Three

1993 Double Exposure Take Four

BOOKS ON TAPE

1986 Starbound Train, by Graham Greene

1987 Communion, by Whitley Stieber

1988 Sidney Sheldon's Master of the Game

1989 The Guest of Honour, by Irving Wallace

1989 Transformation - The Breakthrough, by Whitley Stieber

1989 The Shoes of the Fishermen, by Morris West

1989 Batman (1989 Film Story)

AWARDS

1944 Star of Tomorrow

1960 Antoinette Perry Award

 

Best Supporting or Featured Actor in a Play

"The Fighting Cock"

1961 Emmy Award

 

Best Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Special

"Not Without Honor"

1985 American cinema Foundation Award

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