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Malcolm McDowellAdd to My CelebsAge 68 Birthday Jun. 13th, 1943 Born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK Height 5' 8 1/2" |
Malcolm McDowell's Main TV Roles
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Main Movie Roles2010 - The Book of Eli2010 - Easy A 2009 - Halloween II 2009 - Suck 2008 - Blue Gold: World Water Wars 2008 - Doomsday 2008 - Delgo 2008 - Bolt 2007 - Halloween 2004 - Pinocchio 3000 2004 - In Good Company 2004 - Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius 2004 - Hidalgo 2002 - I Spy 2001 - Just Visiting 1997 - Mr. Magoo 1997 - Hugo Pool 1995 - Tank Girl 1995 - Fist of the North Star 1994 - Star Trek: Generations 1994 - Milk Money 1993 - Happily Ever After 1992 - The Player 1990 - Class of 1999 1988 - Sunset 1984 - The Compleat Beatles 1983 - Get Crazy 1983 - Blue Thunder 1982 - Cat People 1982 - Britannia Hospital 1979 - Time After Time 1973 - O Lucky Man! |
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB
Malcolm John Taylor was born on June 13, 1943, in Leeds, England, to working-class parents Charles and Edna Taylor. His father was a publican and an alcoholic. Malcolm hated his parents' ways and fought against it. His father was keen to send his son to private school to give him a good start in life, so Malcolm was packed off to boarding school at 11. He attended the Tunbridge Boarding School and the Cannock House School in Eltham, Kent. At school he was beaten with the slipper or cane every Monday for his waywardness. Whilst at school, he decided that he wanted to become an actor; it was also around this time that his love for race cars began. He attended the London Academy of Music and Art to study acting. Meanwhile, he worked at his parents' pub but lost his job when the pub went bankrupt, his father drinking all the profits. He then had a variety of jobs, from coffee salesman to messenger.
His first big-screen role was in Poor Cow (1967), although his 2-minute scene was ultimately cut from the completed film. Soon after, he caught the attention of director Lindsay Anderson (I) who cast him in the role of a rebellious student in his film If.... (1968). The film catapulted Malcolm to stardom in Britain but failed everywhere else. He was so enthusiastic about the film's success that he wanted to do another right away. He began writing what would become the semi-autobiographical O Lucky Man! (1973). Meanwhile, he starred as the infamous Alex DeLarge in Stanley Kubrick's controversial A Clockwork Orange (1971), a role that caused him to be typecast as a manic psychopathic villain. In early 1976, he spent nearly a year working on what would later be one of the most infamous films of all time, the semi-pornographic Caligola (1979), financed by Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione. Around that time, the British film industry collapsed, forcing him to flee to America to continue working. His first American film was Time After Time (1979). He then did Britannia Hospital (1982), the last part of Lindsay Anderson (I)'s working-class trilogy that started with If.... (1968).
In the mid-1980s, the years of alcohol and drug abuse, including $1000 a week on cocaine, caught up with him. Years of abuse took its toll on him; his black hairs were now grey. Looking older than he really was, nobody wanted to cast him for playing younger roles. The big roles having dried up, he did many B-rated movies.
The 1990s were kinder to him, though. In 1994, he was cast as Dr. Soran, the man who killed Captain Kirk in Star Trek: Generations (1994). He was back on the track, playing villains again. He played another in the classic BBC mini-series, "Our Friends in the North" (1996). Today, with more than 100 films under his belt, he is one of the greatest actors in America. He still doesn't have American citizenship, but he likes the no-nonsense American ways. He currently resides in the northern suburb of Los Angeles.
TRIVIA:
- Announced that wife, Kelley, is expecting their third child, a boy, in January 2009. [September 8, 2008].
- His performance as Alex DeLarge in _A Clockwork Orange (1971)_ (qv) was ranked 100 on the list of the "100 Greatest Film Performances of All Time".
- As he wanted to get into the SAG, he took his mother's maiden name McDowell because there was another British actor called 'Malcolm Taylor' (qv).
- Uncle of 'Alexander Siddig' (qv) (_"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)_ (qv)).
- He and Wife, 'Kelley McDowell' (qv), had a son, Beckett Taylor McDowell (born January 29, 2004).
- Third son, Seamus Hudson McDowell, was born on January 7, 2009.
- In an interview he said that a magazine named him "King Of Punk" after his appearance in "A clockwork orange". This is probably because of the punk references that appears in the movie, such as the droogies costume style.
- Lives in Santa Barbara, CA.
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