Roddy McDowall

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was a British television, movie, stage, voice, radio, child actor and photographer. He is known for his soft smooth voice and for his role as Cornelius and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes movie series. He won a Tony Award, a Emmy Award, and a Saturn Award.

McDowall was born on 17 September 1928 in Herne Hill, London, England. McDowall was never married and had no children. McDowall was a closeted homosexual. McDowall died on 3 October 1998 from lung cancer in his Studio City, Los Angeles, California home, aged 70.

Filmography
Film

 Murder in the Family (1938) as Peter Osborne
 John Halifax (1938) as Boy
 Dead Man's Shoes (1940) as Boy
 Just William (1940) as Ginger
 You Will Remember (1941) as Young Bob Slater
 Man Hunt (1941) as Vaner
 This England (1941) as Hugo, Norman Boy
 How Green Was My Valley (1941) as Huw Morgan
 Confirm or Deny (1941) as Albert Perkins
 The Pied Piper (1942) as Ronnie Cavanaugh
 My Friend Flicka (1943) as Ken McLaughlin
 Lassie Come Home (1943) as Joe Carraclough
 The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) as John Ashwood II as a Boy
 The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) as Francis Chisholm – as a Boy
 Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (1945) as Ken McLaughlin
 Molly and Me (1945) as Jimmy Graham
 Holiday in Mexico (1946) as Stanley Owen
 Rocky (1948) as Chris Hammond
 Macbeth (1948) as Malcolm
 Big Timber (1950) as Jimmy
 Killer Shark (1950) as Ted
 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950; short subject)
 The Steel Fist (1952) as Eric Kardin
 The Big Country (1958) as Hannassey Watchman (uncredited)
 The Subterraneans (1960) as Yuri Gilgoric
 Midnight Lace (1960) as Malcolm Stanley
 The Longest Day (1962) as Pvt. Morris
 Cleopatra (1963) as Octavian – Caesar Augustus
 Shock Treatment (1964) as Martin Ashley
 The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) as Matthew
 The Defector (1966) as Agent Adams
 The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) as Bullwhip Griffin
 The Cool Ones (1967) as Tony Krum
 It! (1967) as Arthur Pimm
 Planet of the Apes (1968) as Cornelius
 Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) as Proffer
 Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) as Cornelius
 Terror in the Sky (1971) as Dr. Ralph Baird
 Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) as Mr. Rowan Jelk
 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) as Caesar
 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) as Frank Gass
 The Poseidon Adventure (1972) as Acres
 Arnold (1973) as Robert
 The Legend of Hell House (1973) as Benjamin Franklin Fischer
 The Cat from Outer Space (1978) as Mr. Stallwood
 Circle of Iron (1978) as White Robe
 The Thief of Baghdad (1978) as Hasan
 Nutcracker Fantasy (1979) as Franz / Fritz (voice)
 Scavenger Hunt (1979) as Jenkins
 The Black Hole (1979) as V.I.N.CENT
 Overboard (1987) as Andrew
 Fright Night Part 2 (1988) as Peter Vincent
 The Big Picture (1989) as Judge
 Cutting Class (1989) as Mr. Dante
 Shakma (1990) as Sorenson
 Going Under (1990) as Secretary Neighbor
 Harold Lloyd, The Third Genius (1990 documentary)
 Precious Moments Christmas: "Timmy's Gift" (1991) as narrator (voice)
 Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1992) as Minister
 The Magical World of Chuck Jones (1992 documentary)
 The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997) as King Murphy
 Something to Believe In (1998) as Gambler
 A Bug's Life (1998) as Mr. Soil (voice)
 When It Clicks (1998) (short subject) as Professor Bark

Television
  Year  Title RoleNotes1951 Family Theatre  Private Huntington (The Professor)  Episode: "Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration"1960 The Twilight Zone  Sam Conrad  Season 1, Episode 25: "People Are Alike All Over"1960 The Tempest  Ariel  TV movie1964 Combat!  Murfree  Season 3, Episode 13: "The Long Walk"1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre  Robert "Professor" Benson  Season 2, Episode 11: "The Wine-Dark Sea"1965 Ben Casey  Dwight Franklin  Season 4, Episode 19: "When I am grown to Man's Estate"1966 12 O'Clock High  "T" / Sgt. Willets  Season 2, Episode 24: "Angel Babe"1966 Batman  Bookworm  Season 1, Episode 29: "The Bookworm Turns"  Season 1, Episode: 30 "While Gotham City Burns"1966 Run for Your Life  Gyula Bognar  Episode: "Don't Count on Tomorrow"1969 Journey to the Unknown  Rollo Verdew  Season 1, Episode 12: "The Killing Bottle"1969 It Takes a Thief  Roger  Season 2, Episode 19: "Boom at the Top"1969 Night Gallery  Jeremy Evans  "The Cemetery" segment1969 The Name of the Game  Philip Saxon Season 1, Episode 11: "The White Birch"1970 The Name of the Game  Early McCorley  Season 3, Episode 12: "Why I Blew Up Dakota"1971 Terror in the Sky  Dr. Ralph Baird  TV movie1972 Columbo  Roger Stanford  Episode: "Short Fuse"1972 The Rookies: Dirge for Sunday  Fenner  Episode: "Dirge for Sunday"1972 Mission: Impossible  Leo Ostro  Episode: The Puppet1973 McMillan & Wife  Jamie McMillan  Episode: "Death of a Monster... Birth of a Legend"1974 Planet of the Apes  Galen  14 episodes1974 The Elevator  Marvin Ellis  TV movie1976 Ellery Queen  The Amazing Armitage  Season 1, Episode: 12 "The Adventure of the Black Falcon"1976 Flood!  Mr. Franklin  TV movie1976 Mowgli's Brothers  Narrator / Mowgli / Shere Khan / Baloo / Bagheera / Tabaqui  Voice, TV Short1977 The Feather and Father Gang  Vincent Stoddard  Season 1, Episode 12: "The Mayan Connection"1977 The Rhinemann Exchange  Bobby Ballard  3 episodes1977 The Fantastic Journey  Dr. Jonathan Willoway  8 Episodes1977 Wonder Woman  Henry Roberts / Professor Arthur Chapman  2 episodes1978 The Immigrants  Mark Levy  TV movie1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century  Governor Saroyan  Season 1, Episode 2: "Planet of the Slave Girls"1979 Supertrain  Talcott  Episode: "The Green Lady"1979 Hart to Hart  Dr. Peterson  Episode: "Hart to Hart"1979 Mork & Mindy  Chuck the Robot  Voice, Episode: "Dr. Morkenstein"1980 The Martian Chronicles  Father Stone  3 episodes1980 The Memory of Eva Ryker  MacFarland  TV movie1980 The Return of the King  Samwise Gamgee  Voice, TV movie1984 The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood  Prince John  TV movie1985 Hollywood Wives  Jason Swankle  3 episodes1985 Alice in Wonderland  The March Hare  TV movie1985–1989 Murder, She Wrote  Gordon Fairchild / Dr. Alger Kenyon  2 episodes1985 Bridges to Cross  Norman Parks  Episode: "Memories of Molly"1987 The Wind in the Willows  Ratty  Voice, TV movie1988 Remo Williams: The Prophecy  Chuin  TV movie1989 Around the World in 80 Days  McBaines  3 episodes1991 The Pirates of Dark Water  Niddler  Voice, 5 Episodes1991 An Inconvenient Woman  Cyril Rathbone  2 episodes1991 Timmy's Gift: A Precious Moments Christmas  Narrator  Voice1992 Darkwing Duck  Sir Quackmire Mallard  Voice, Episode: "Inherit the Wimp"1992–1994 Batman: The Animated Series  Jervis Tetch / The Mad Hatter  Voice, 4 episodes1992 Camp Candy   Voice, Episode: "When it Rains… it Snows"1993 2 Stupid Dogs  Chameleon  Voice, Episode: "Chameleon"1993 SWAT Kats  Lenny Ringtail / Madkat  Voice, Episode: "Enter the Madkat"1994 The Tick  Breadmaster  Voice, 6 Episodes1996 Tracey Takes On...  Rex Gaydon  Episode: "Nostalgia"1996 Gargoyles  Proteus  Voice, Episode: "The New Olympians"1996 Unlikely Angel  Saint Peter  TV movie1998 The New Batman Adventures  Jervis Tetch / The Mad Hatter Voice, 2 Episodes

Stage

Young Woodley (1946)

 No Time for Sergeants (1955)
 Good as Gold (1957)
 Compulsion (1957)
 Handful of Fire (1958)
 Look After Lulu (1959)

 The Fighting Cock (1959)
 Dial M for Murder (1995–1996)
 A Christmas Carol: The Musical (1997)

References

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