Roddy McDowall

Roddy Mcdowall's biography

Roddy Mcdowall is 70 years old voice actor born at London. He was born on Monday 17th of September 1928. According to year of birth 1928 he belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 17th of September means he is Virgo. Virgo is an earthy sign of Zodiac Belt. People born under this Rising Sign are practical in nature. They believe in reality and represents themselves as a strong person.

He is citizen of United Kingdom. His primary profession is to be voice actor. You can know him also as film director, character actor, screenwriter, stage actor, film actor, television actor, actor, photographer. He is recently known as film producer.

Roddy Mcdowall's schools

We found 1 school He attended. Name of the school: St Joseph's College.

Detailed informations about his schools

• His schooling took place on the 20th Century Fox studio lot, though he graduated at University High School in West Los Angeles in 1947.

Roddy Mcdowall's career

His main focus is to be voice actor.

How did Roddy Mcdowall die

He died on on Saturday 3rd of October 1998 when he was 70 years old. Roddy Mcdowalls death was caused by metastasized lung cancer. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Roddy Mcdowall's Awards

• Won Broadway's 1960 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for "The Fighting Cock".
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6632 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

Roddy Mcdowall's Nominations

• Was in four Oscar Best Picture nominees, How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Pied Piper (1942), The Longest Day (1962) and Cleopatra (1963), with the first of these the only winner.

What Roddy Mcdowall has done for a first time

• In addition to appearing on both the original and animated Batman series (Batman (1966) and Batman: The Animated Series (1992)), he was also the reader for the book-on-tape version of the novelization of the first Batman (1989).
• Introduced Carol Lawrence to Robert Goulet. In fact, she jokingly said that McDowall was responsible for hers and Goulet's first child.
• He was close friends with Maureen O'Hara for 57 years, from the time that they made How Green Was My Valley (1941), their first and only film together, until his death in October 1998.
• Was Jay Sandrich's first choice for the lead role of Arthur Carlson on WKRP in Cincinnati (1978), but was unavailable, hence, the role was given to Gordon Jump, who previously played the chief police officer on Soap (1977).
• Was in four Oscar Best Picture nominees, How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Pied Piper (1942), The Longest Day (1962) and Cleopatra (1963), with the first of these the only winner.

Roddy Mcdowall's quotes

• Intellectually, I'd love to play Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire". Can't you just imagine me down in the streets yelling, "Stella! Stella!". God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one.
• [on his more well-known roles as a child actor] I really liked Lassie, but that horse, Flicka, was a nasty animal with a terrible disposition. All the Flickas--all six of them--were awful.
• My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.
• I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child, you're not acting--you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy-soldiers concentration!
• I absolutely adore movies. Even bad ones. I don't like pretentious ones, but a good bad movie, you must admit, is great.
• [on Mia Farrow] Trying to describe Mia is like trying to describe dust in a shaft of sunlight. There are all those particles. Her conversation is clotted.
• [in 1968, on his career] . . . totally isolated, really suffocating. As a child, I was always lied to about myself and about the world.
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Roddy Mcdowall's body shape

Lets describe how Roddy Mcdowall looks. We will focus on his body shape. Body build is average.