RODDY McDOWALL |
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-fffRoddy 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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