Roddy McDowall - biography

“I can’t say I was unhappy as a child actor in films.  I had a particularly wonderful time.”

“I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy.  As a child you’re not acting - you believe.”

“I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can’t act the same as you did as a child.”

“I still have the actor’s disease.  I always think I’ll never get another job.”

“They said I couldn’t play anything but an English boy.  I knew I could.  So I went to New York.”

“My whole life I’ve been trying to prove I’m not just yesterday.”

“Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.”

Roddy McDowall has appeared in the following films:
Sarah Siddons (1938)
I See Ice (1938)
Murder in the Family (1938)
John Halifax (1938)
Convict 99 (1938)
Scruffy (1938)
Yellow Sands (1938)
Hey! Hey! USA (1938)
The Outsider (1939)
Poison Pen (1939)
His Brother’s Keeper (1940)
Murder Will Out (1940)
Dead Man’s Shoes (1940)
Just William (1940)
Saloon Bar (1940)
You Will Remember (1941)
Man Hunt (1941)
This England (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Confirm or Deny (1941)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
On the Sunny Side (1942)
The Pied Piper (1942)
My Friend Flicka (1943)
Lassie Come Home (1943)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Thunderhead – Son of Flicka (1945)
Molly and Me (1945)
Holiday in Mexico (1946)
Rocky (1948)
Macbeth (1948)
Kidnapped (1948)
Tuna Clipper (1949)
Black Midnight (1949)
Killer Shark (1950)
Everybody’s Dancin’ (1950)
Big Timber (1950)
The Steel Fist (1952)
The Subterraneans (1960)
Midnight Lace (1960)
The Longest Day (1962)
Cleopatra (1963)
Shock Treatment (1964)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
The Third Day (1965)
The Loved One (1965)
That Darn Cat! (1965)
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Lord Love a Duck (1966)
The Defector (1966)
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)
The Cool Ones (1967)
It! (1967)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
5 Card Stud (1968)
Midas Run (1969)
Hello Down There (1969)
Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969)
Journey to Murder (1971)
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Arnold (1973)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
Funny Lady (1975)
Mean Johnny Barrows (1976)
Embryo (1976)
Sixth and Main (1977)
Laserblast (1978)
Rabbit Test (1978)
The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
Circle of Iron (1978)
Nutcracker Fantasy (1979)
The Black Hole (1979)
Scavenger Hunt (1979)
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Class of 1984 (1982)
"Tales of the Gold Monkey" .... Bon Chance Louie (19 episodes, 1982-1983)
Zoo Ship (1985)
Fright Night (1985)
GoBots: War of the Rock Lords (1986)
Dead of Winter (1987)
Overboard (1987)
Doin’ Time on Planet Earth (1988)
Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
The Big Picture (1989)
Cutting Class (1989)
Heroes Stand Alone (1989)
Going Under (1990)
Shakma (1990)
Los gusanos no llevan bufanda (1992)
Double Trouble (1992)
Angel 4: Undercover (1993)
The Evil Inside Me (1993)
The Color of Evening (1994)
Galaxy Beat (1994)
Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance (1994)
The Grass Harp (1995)
Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995)
It’s My Party (1996)
The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997)
When It Clicks (1998)
Something to Believe In (1998)
A Bug’s Life (1998)


Roddy McDowall directed the following films:
The Ballad of Tam Lin (1970)