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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.

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Born: Roderick Andrew McDowall in London, England, 17 September 1928. Education: Attended St. Joseph's School, London; 20th Century-Fox school for child actors. Career: 1938—film debut as child actor in Murder in the Family; 1941—U.S. film debut in Man Hunt; 1946—stage debut in Young Woodley in Westport, Connecticut; 1955—in Julius Caesar and The Tempest at Stratford, Connecticut, Shakespeare Festival; other stage work in roles in No Time for Sergeants, 1952, Compulsion, 1957, Look After Lulu, 1959, and Camelot, 1960; 1970s—in several TV mini-series, and the series The Planet of the Apes, 1974, and Fantastic Journey, 1977; 1971—directed the film Tam Lin; 1980s and 1990s—in TV mini-series Around the World in 80 Days, 1989, An Inconvenient Woman, 1991, The Sands of Time, 1992. Died: of cancer on 3 October 1998 in Studio City, California.

Films as Actor:

1938

Murder in the Family (Banks) (as Peter Osborne); Scruffy (Faye); Hey! Hey! USA! (Varnel); I See Ice (Kimmins); Convict Ninety-Nine (Varnel); Yellow Sands (Brenon); John Halifax, Gentleman (George King); Sarah Siddons

1939

Just William (Cutts) (as Ginger); Dirt; Dead Men's Shoes (Bentley); Poison Pen (Stein); Brother's Keeper; Murder Will Out (Neill)

1940

The Outsider (Stein); Saloon Bar (Forde)

1941

You Will Remember (Raymond) (as young Bob Slater); This England (MacDonald); Man Hunt (Fritz Lang) (as Vaner, the cabin boy); How Green Was My Valley (Ford) (as Huw Morgan); Confirm or Deny (Mayo) (as Albert Perkins)

1942

Son of Fury (Cromwell) (as Benjamin as a boy); The Pied Piper (Pichel) (as Ronny Cavanaugh); On the Sunny Side (Schuster) (as Hugh Aylesworth)

1943

My Friend Flicka (Schuster) (as Ken McLaughlin); Lassie Come Home (Wilcox) (as Joe Carraclough)

1944

The Keys of the Kingdom (Stahl) (as Francis as a boy); The White Cliffs of Dover (Brown) (as John Ashwood II

British actor (1928–1998)

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was a British-American actor, whose career spanned over 270 screen and stage roles across over 60 years. Born in London, he began his acting career as a child in his native England, before moving to the United States at the outbreak of World War II. He achieved prominence for his starring roles in How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Friend Flicka (1943), and Lassie Come Home (1943). Unlike many of his contemporaries, McDowall managed to evolve from child star into an adult performer and appeared on Broadway as well as in films, winning a Tony Award for his performance in Jean Anouilh's The Fighting Cock. For portraying Octavian in the historical epic Cleopatra (1963), he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

McDowall played Cornelius and Caesar in the original Planet of the Apes film series, as well as Galen in the short-lived spin-off television series. His other notable films included Orson Welles' Macbeth (1948), The Longest Day (1962),Cleopatra (1963),The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), That Darn Cat! (1965), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Funny Lady (1975), The Black Hole (1979), Fright Night (1985) and its sequel Fright Night Part 2 (1988), Overboard (1987), Shakma (1990) and A Bug's Life (1998). He was a frequent guest star on many television series, and won an Emmy Award for a 1961 episode of NBC Sunday Showcase.

McDowall served in various positions on the Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Selection Committee for the Kennedy Center Honors, contributing to various charities related to the film industry and film preservation. He was a founding Member of the National Film Preservation Board in 1989, and represented the Screen Actors Guild on that Board until his death. Asi

(1928-1998)

Who Is Roddy McDowall?

Actor and photographer Roddy McDowall was born Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude on September 17, 1928, in London, England. In 1941, McDowall was in How Green Was My Valley. After a stint in theater, he returned to film in Cleopatra. Afterwards, McDowall took the role of the villan The Bookworm on the 1960s Batman series. In 1968, he played Cornelius in cult classic Planet of the Apes and later took on the role of Galen in the 1970s television series of the same name. McDowall starred in countless television movies and appeared in scores of shows throughout his life. Toward the end of his career, he voiced characters in numerous animated series. McDowall died on October 3, 1998, in Los Angeles, California.

Early Life

Roddy McDowall was the only son of Thomas McDowall, a merchant seaman, and his wife, Winifred. As a child, Roddy appeared in a slew of British films, including Yellow Sands (1938) and Just William (1939).

In 1940, Roddy moved to America with his mother and sister to escape the bombing of London during World War II. Thomas McDowall joined his family shortly after. The family settled in Hollywood, where Roddy was immediately contracted by 20th Century Fox. In 1941, he gave a remarkable performance as the juvenile lead in John Ford's Oscar-winning drama How Green Was My Valley. McDowall followed the film's success with equally impressive roles in the 1943 children's classics My Friend Flicka and Lassie Come Home.

Acting Career

Like many child stars, McDowall found it challenging to transition into adult film roles. Frustrated with dwindling opportunities in Hollywood, he turned to stage acting. McDowall toured in vaudeville and summer stock before moving to New York in 1954. He was featured in memorable Broadway productions, including Compulsion (1957) and The Fighting Cock (1959). For the latter, McDowall earned a Supporting Actor Tony Award.

In 1963, McDowall returned to f