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Roddy McDowall
Age: 70 (passed away Oct. 3rd, 1998)
Height: 5' 10"
Birth Place: Herne Hill, London, England, UK
Born: Sep. 17th, 1928
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Roddy McDowall's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: Roderick McDowall was born in London, the son of a Merchant Mariner father and a mother who had always wanted to be in movies. He was enrolled in elocution courses at age five and by ten had appeared in his first film, Murder in the Family (1938), playing Peter Osborne, the younger brother of sisters played by Jessica Tandy and Glynis Johns. His mother brought Roddy and his sister to the US at the beginning of World War II, and he soon got the part of Huw, youngest child in a family of Welsh coal miners, in John Ford (I)'s How Green Was My Valley (1941), acting alongside Walter Pidgeon, 'Maureen OHara (I) and Donald Crisp (I) in the film that won that year's best film Oscar. He went on to many other child roles, in films like My Friend Flicka (1943) and Lassie Come Home (1943) until, at age 18, he moved to New York, where he played a long series of successful stage roles, both on Broadway and in such venues as Connecticut's Stratford Festival, where he did Shakespeare. In addition to making many more movies (over 150), McDowell acted in television, developed an extensive collection of movies and Hollywood memorabilia, and published five acclaimed books of his own photography. He died at his Los Angeles home, aged 70, of cancer.
TRIVIA:
- He appeared in three different "Batman" television series: he played the Bookworm in _"Batman" (1966)_ (qv) and the Mad Hatter (Dr. Jervis Tetch) in _"Batman" (1992)_ (qv) and its spin-off _"The New Batman Adventures" (1997)_ (qv).
- An accomplished ballroom dancer, he won both the Charleston and Cha-Cha contests on the _"The Arthur Murray Party" (1950)_ (qv).
- On March 10, 1965, he attended the Los Angeles premiere of _The Sound of Music (1965)_ (qv) as the date of the movie's star, 'Julie Andrews (I)' (qv).
- After his death in 1998 his ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
- Introduced 'Carol Lawrence (I)' (qv) to 'Robert Goulet' (qv). In fact, she jokingly said that McDowell was responsible for hers and Goulet's first child.
- He was a close friend of 'Maureen O'Hara (I)' (qv) for 57 years, from the time that they made _How Green Was My Valley (1941)_ (qv), their first and only film together, until his death in October 1998.
- Final stage appearance was as Ebenezer Scrooge in the New York City production of "A Christmas Carol" in 1997. He alternated performances with 'Hal Linden' (qv).
- Along with 'Woodrow Parfrey' (qv), 'Norman Burton' (qv) and 'Eldon Burke (I)' (qv), he is one of only four actors to appear in both _Planet of the Apes (1968)_ (qv) and _"Planet of the Apes" (1974)_ (qv).
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