Date of birth: 1928-09-17
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Roddy MacDowall, Master Roddy McDowall, Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall, Родді Макдавелл, Родди Макдауэлл, رادی مکداول

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was an English-American actor, director, and photographer. He is best known for portraying Cornelius and Caesar in the original Planet of the Apes film series, as well as Galen in the spin-off television series.

1968-02-07
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo

1972-12-01
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

1980-05-11
Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lo

1943-12-01
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the ric

1971-05-20
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a s

1972-06-29
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almo

1973-06-15
The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilizati

1965-04-09
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is give

1982-03-05
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to

1966-10-19
An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Sovie

1987-12-16
Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to p

1967-03-08
To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the Californi

1968-07-28
The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.

1989-04-24
High school student Paula Carson's affections are being sought after by two of her classmates: Dwigh

1965-12-02
A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, t

1982-08-20
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are

1979-12-21
An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of doll

1982-01-01
Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you th

1941-06-13
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bav

1985-08-02
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry

1967-07-01
After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one

1963-06-12
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar

1978-07-25
In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will

1971-10-07
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinst

1996-03-22
Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparation

1962-09-25
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the

1960-10-13
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon

1972-12-18
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradu
1938-01-01
After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.

1969-06-25
Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his famil

1996-01-09
Star hunters are the space monsters who hunt helpless creatures for pleasure. One night couple of hi

1999-08-24
Linda Darnell had the looks and talent to be a great Hollywood leading lady, but never quite deliver

1990-10-05
A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill som

1941-10-28
Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses

1973-06-15
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the pre

1965-10-11
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment

1991-07-10
A group of seven strangers, including a dancer, a doctor, a teacher, and a disgraced former football

1996-10-11
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growi

1975-03-15
Famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the Great Depression

1978-03-01
Happy go-lucky teen Billy Duncan discovers an otherworldly laser gun in the southern California dese

1975-03-24
In one seal herd, a young seal pup with a rare white colouring named Kotick is born. When as he matu

1998-09-05
Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right ont

1981-02-13
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a

1944-12-15
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christ

1988-04-07
After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandri

1966-02-10
A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.

1967-12-18
A delightful, animated musical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale. A Cricket on the Hearth, te

1974-05-17
Down-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will hel

1978-06-09
A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that g

1938-09-26
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the

1943-05-26
Ken McLaughlin is a precocious 10-year-old who lives with his family on a remote Wyoming ranch. When

1997-05-16
In this exciting live-action adventure, young Mowgli, an orphan raised by wolves, is spotted by a sc

1944-05-11
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan m

1971-04-28
At Oceanfront High School, female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile

1987-02-06
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually

1945-03-15
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to

1966-02-21
From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to

1976-02-11
Mowgli's Brothers is a 1976 television animated special created by legendary animator Chuck Jones. I

1980-11-18
Human astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are forced to become involved i

1975-11-27
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.

1942-08-21
Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Set

1994-05-25
A mysterious mirror is found hidden in a church orphanage, yet few realize its legacy of evil. When

1972-01-01
A country boy wants to make it big as a stockcar racer.

1941-12-12
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuf

1989-09-10
Lonely young Marie and her father live on a plantation just before the Civil War. Their placid lives

1978-04-09
Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world

1964-07-22
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stole

1996-12-17
A country singer dies prematurely, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on ea

2000-09-12
Arguably the quintessential film siren of the silent era, Mary Pickford was known as "America's Swee

1948-11-28
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil

1969-08-19
The overweight debutante daughter of the world's wealthiest couple falls in with a gang of tripped o

1972-01-10
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t

1950-03-19
A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting

1995-09-03
A biography of Darryl F. Zanuck, mogul and the power behind 20th Century Fox throughout the Golden A

2001-04-03
Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive fi

1960-02-03
Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer, uses his p

1965-08-04
A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests

1963-05-31
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to per

1976-05-21
A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mat

1946-08-15
Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey

1994-08-14
Documentary about canine superstar Lassie, combining film clips, still photographs, home movies, arc

1995-07-18
Crew of an undersea mining platform falls prey to mysterious and dangerous parasite. The parasite ha

1978-01-10
A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful pr

1984-05-22
The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and hi

1973-11-16
Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffi

1977-06-05
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an ag

1982-02-13
Television parody. Sketches include: Women Who Have Made It With Me, No-Arms Bandits, Pee-Wee's Play

1994-07-26
Former prostitute Molly Stewart works as a police photographer. When an old friend, a groupie in pur
1998-10-01
A crime novelist searches for a missing baby at his sister's behest and makes painful discoveries ab

1971-10-12
On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that so

1967-04-12
A young, millionaire rock promoter creates a new boy/girl team for his teen TV dance show. Will the

1992-10-23
Documentary on animator Chuck Jones.

1995-11-22
Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the

1997-10-04
A documentary about the making and restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "Vertigo." Narrated

1960-06-23
A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.

1971-12-18
A Bronx working girl is drawn into an elaborate extortion plot after being kidnapped by a gang of so

1974-02-09
A claustrophobic armed robber, fleeing from his latest job, finds himself trapped with a group of pe

1971-09-17
On a transcontinental flight, the flight crew suffer from food poisoning and become incapacitated. N

1941-07-22
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well App

1949-04-11
Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. Th

1996-03-05
Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, called Henrie O., is a world-famous journalist and writer. She's invited

1958-09-30
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud

1982-05-02
Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1

1991-03-04
When a prom queen dies in 1962, her only means of entering Heaven is by returning to 1990 earth, to

1997-03-21
The story of how Audrey Hepburn survived World War II, became an award winning actress, and gave bac

1948-01-17
Out fishing one day, painter John Hammond and his son Chris come across Bert Hillman, the foreman of
1991-05-17
Hollywood's controversial creative genius, whose career spans multiple generations of moviegoers, is

1994-01-29
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, an

1942-01-29
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Ben

1992-11-23
Three nuns are caught up in the midst of Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.

1992-01-24
A New York executive is handcuffed to a precious briefcase to which only his Spanish contact holds t

1994-01-01
Documentary about the making of "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944).

1973-12-14
A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he

1950-03-31
Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Sever

1949-10-01
A young man with a love of horses, Scott Jordan (Roddy McDowall) lives on the family ranch with his

1967-12-04
A television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play about the life, battles and subsequent trial o

1939-07-03
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with ma

1997-01-01
A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.

1938-02-10
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidenta
1988-08-15
This unsold television pilot was a sequel to the 1985 movie "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins." S

1997-05-12
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17
1940-07-20
A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city coun

1952-01-06
In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities.

1998-11-25
On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs

1945-05-25
A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives hi

1997-03-18
Profiling the life and career of actor Henry Fonda, who starred in such film classics as "The Grapes

1989-09-15
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum

1940-11-02
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innoc

1971-01-01
Television movie that consists of two episodes from the UK TV series Journey to the Unknown (1968):

1994-02-18
When a mentor and friend of Jennifer's dies, she and Jonathan return to the sleepy town where Jennif

1992-02-14
Two beefed-up twins operating on opposing sides of the law, team up to stop a nefarious crook in thi

2024-05-03
Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

1980-11-21
When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing vi

1980-11-19
The fugitives Burke, Virdon and Galen try to save the life of a human blacksmith and his son, whom g

1980-11-20
When fugitive human astronaut Virdon is shot, his chimp companion Galen must charm an old flame into

1938-10-01
While working as a porter Benjamin Twists mistakenly ends up on a cruise ship heading for the USA. U
1979-01-01
A day-in-the-life documentary with Garry Marshall. Marshall was an executive producer for ABC and wa

1978-11-20
The rags-to-riches saga of a young Italian immigrant who battles his way out of the San Francisco ea

1948-10-01
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become

1981-03-12
Tony Curtis is the ruthless head of a cosmetics firm, Kiss of Gold, locked in fierce competition wit

1991-08-23
An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine.
1940-01-27
“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blue

1997-10-12
Documentary on the life and career of actor Vincent Price, best known for horror film classics such

1980-11-17
Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes

1975-02-27
Vintage 1975 documentary about the life of movie queen Elizabeth Taylor hosted by Peter Lawford, and

1979-12-18
The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-te

1980-05-05
A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed d

1989-11-15
A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

1969-11-08
This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemete

1998-05-08
Reports of a weeping Madonna in Italy reach Las Vegas, where blackjack dealer Maggie has just learnt

1942-02-13
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in

1976-05-16
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi

1998-01-01
The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled c

1983-01-11
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private

1950-09-10
A young man goes to work in a logging camp to fulfill a boyhood ambition and a jealous loggers rigs

1986-03-21
The GoBots, television's amazing transformable super heroes, star in their first full length feature

1990-09-01
An aging artist seeks his muse and a young lover in the form of a beautiful model.
1999-03-01
An exploration of film preservation and restoration in the United States.

1977-09-01
Monica Cord is planning to write a book about the homeless. She observes the men who attend a rescue

1976-03-31
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

1998-05-05
Documentary recounting the life story of Louise Brooks in 5 sections: "Lulu in Toe Shoes"; "Lulu in

1969-05-07
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold o

1941-02-08
Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through perfor

2000-10-14
Documentary about how the creative energies of Darryl F. Zanuck and John Ford combined to forge an e

1988-09-16
Ryan Richmond is an eccentric teenager living with his mother, father, sister and brother in the Hol

1983-02-05
A sinister witch steals the baby of a simple candlemaker and his wife and names her Rapunzel. Determ

1958-11-06
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers t

1982-02-24
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell
1991-12-22
This is the story about an ordinary someone, much like you or me, who is called upon to accomplish a

2001-01-01
Animated Film

1993-01-01
The lines between past and present are mysteriously blurred when a successful real estate agent deve

1997-01-21
The first half century of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation from its beginnings under Hungarian

1994-09-13
Share the magical memories - and see clips from her Oscar winning performances - in this profile of

1979-08-25
In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left
1989-01-01
Hosted by celebrity horse enthusiast, Tab Hunter, visits the stables and homes of the Hollywood movi

1983-11-15
The Irresponsible Toad is in a mess and needs help from his friends try and save Toad Hall.

1939-01-30
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with

1998-09-06
A survey of 86 years of Titanicana in popular culture, with the emphasis on movies about (or inspire

1977-02-03
1 hour 55 minute edited "movie" version comprised of primarily episodes 1 and 2 of TV series of same
1989-06-26
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was found

1987-05-18
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.
1991-11-01
American Movie Classics produced this original salute to those celebrities who worked to improve the

1951-03-25
The story of the Crucifixion, set within the context of the Korean War.
1999-01-12
Documentary on the career of Lauren Bacall.
2000-01-01
Narrated by Bill Mumy (Will Robinson from TV's "Lost in Space"), this documentary spotlights some of

1979-09-27
The majority of Earth's fighter squadron becomes incapacitated after using poisoned food discs. Buck

1989-12-02
A documentary about the careers of child stars of the '40s in Hollywood, featuring movie clips with

1968-02-18
Musical version of Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. Songs by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen in

1980-01-27

2024-05-16
Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star’s personal ar
1997-11-04
The Brain's letter writing scheme is stolen by a brilliant but evil laboratory hamster named Snowbal