Malcolm McDowell
Born: 1943-06-13 in Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Malcolm McDowell is an English actor with a career spanning over forty years. McDowell is principally known for his roles in the controversial films Caligula, If...., O Lucky Man! and A Clockwork Orange. His versatility as an actor has led to his presence in many films and television series of different genres, including Tank Girl, Star Trek Generations, the TV serial Our Friends in the North, Entourage, Heroes, Metalocalypse, animated film Bolt and the 2007 remake of Halloween and the 2009 sequel Halloween II. He is also well known for his narration of the seminal 1982 documentary, The Compleat Beatles.
Filmography
2026
2025
- The Partisan as Trench coat
- A Natural Selection as Duncan Carlysle
- Et Tu as The Janitor
- Wizardream as The Wizard Mangodor
2024
- Thelma as Harvey
- ARK: The Animated Series as Senator Lucius Casius Virilis (voice)
- Cellphone
2023
- Moving On as Howard
- Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar as Vader Orlag (voice)
2022
- Father Stu as Monsignor Kelly
- The Walk as McLaughlin
- She Will as Hathbourne
- Son of a Critch as Pop
2021
- Pups Alone as Oliver (voice)
- Gossip Girl as Roger Menzies
- Blood on the Crown as Colonel Saville
- A Forbidden Orange as Narrator (voice) / Alex DeLarge
- Dreaming of Stars: An ASMR Feature Film as Self (voice)
- A Wonderful Kingdom as Narrator
2020
- The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two as Hakan
- TimeCrafters: The Treasure of Pirate's Cove as Captain Lynch
- Truth Seekers as Richard
- The Big Ugly as Harris
- Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies as Self
- Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness as Self
- Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi as Self
- Free Lunch Express as Narrator
2019
- Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? as Malcolm McDowell (voice)
- Bombshell as Rupert Murdoch
2018
- Corbin Nash as Blind Prophet
- Dreams I Never Had as Judge Messner
- Abnormal Attraction as Boogeyman
2017
- Castlevania as Varney of London (voice)
- Heroes Manufactured as Self (archive footage)
- Grow House as Dr. Doobie
- American Satan as Mr. Capricorn
- Death Race 2050 as Chairman
- Walk of Fame as Evan Polus
- Yamasong: March of the Hollows as Lord Geer (voice)
- Jeff and Some Aliens as Zib Zog (voice)
- Mississippi Murder as McGowen
- Conspiracy of Fear as Evo
2016
- 31 as Father Murder
- The Mystery of Casa Matusita as Supay
- Легенды кино as Self (archive footage)
- The Search for Life in Space as Narrator
- Because I Am a Genius! Lorenza Mazzetti as Himself
2015
- Chicago Med as Marvin Jaffrey
- We Bare Bears as Professor Lampwick (voice)
- Dawn of the Croods as Skermiggleflop (voice)
- Bereave as Garvey
- Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness as Sly Baron (voice)
- Cowboys & Engines as Dr. Clay
- The Black Hole as Mr. Simms
- Kids vs Monsters as Boss Monster
- Lady Psycho Killer as Gerald Portersen
- Some Kind of Beautiful as Gordon
- The Soul of a Spy
- Oceanus: Act One as Triton (Ship's Computer)
2014
- Star Wars Rebels as Minister Hydan (voice)
- Free Fall as Thaddeus Gault
- Kubrick Remembered as Self
- Mozart in the Jungle as Thomas Pembridge
- The One I Love ... (Thanks)
- Mischief Night as Mr. Smiles
- Shock Value as Edmund Dean Huntley
- Tbilisi, I Love You
- Elwood as Narrator (voice)
2013
- Teen Titans Go! as Baxtory (voice)
- A Green Story as Barton
- The Anatomy of a Virus: The Making of Antiviral as Himself
- Richard The Lionheart as King Henry II
- Zombex as Dr. Soulis
- The Employer as The Employer
- Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem - A Klok Opera as Vater Orlagg (voice)
- Sanitarium as Dr. Stenson
- Meet the Small Potatoes as Lester Koop (voice)
2012
- Excision as Mr. Cooper
- Home Alone: The Holiday Heist as Sinclair
- Silent Hill: Revelation 3D as Leonard Wolf
- Antiviral as Dr. Abendroth
- Vamps as Vlad Tepish
- The Philadelphia Experiment as Morton Salinger
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- Silent Night as Sheriff Cooper
- Stanley Kubrick in Focus as Self
- The Artist: The Making of an American Romance as Self
- Os 12 Desastres de Natal ... (Director)
- Hollywood as Character: The Locations of The Artist as Himself
2011
- Franklin & Bash as Stanton Infeld
- The Artist as The Butler
- L.A., I Hate You as Harold Weintraub
- LEGO Hero Factory: Ordeal of Fire as Mr. Makuro (voice)
- Golf in the Kingdom as Julian Lange
- Turning Like Clockwork as Self
- Pound of Flesh as Professor Noah Melville
- Santiago Files as Narrator
- Suing The Devil as Satan
- Once Upon a Time… A Clockwork Orange as Self
- No Rest for the Wicked: A Basil & Moebius Adventure as Mr. Bloome
2010
- The Book of Eli as Lombardi
- Easy A as Principal Gibbons
- Barry Munday as Mr. Farley
- DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection as Merlyn the Magnificent (segment "Green Arrow") (voice)
- DC Showcase: Green Arrow as Merlyn the Magnificent (voice)
- Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes as Professor Moriarity (voice)
- LEGO Hero Factory: Rise of the Rookies as Mr. Makuro (voice)
- The Making of Easy A as Self
- The Invocation as Self
- What If Cannabis Cured Cancer as himself
- Monster Butler as Roy Fontaine
2009
- Community as Professor Cornwallis
- Super Rhino as Dr. Calico (voice)
- Suck as Eddie Van Helsing
- Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation! as Grandpa Fletcher (voice)
- Behind The Scenes of Caligula
- Halloween II as Dr. Samuel Loomis
- Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil as Self
2008
- The Mentalist as Bret Stiles
- Bolt as Dr. Calico (voice)
- Delgo as Raius (voice)
- Doomsday as Dr. Marcus Kane
- Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween as Self
- Anatomy of Catastrophe: The Making of 'Doomsday' as Self
- Blue Gold: World Water Wars as Narrator
- Coco Chanel as Marc Bouchier
- The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files as Self
2007
- Phineas and Ferb
- Halloween as Dr. Samuel Loomis
- Robot Chicken: Star Wars as Orientation Instructor (voice)
- The List as Desmond Larochette
- My Roman Holiday With John Steiner as Self - Archive Footage
- Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick as Narrator
- Masters of Science Fiction as Tibor Cargrew
- War and Peace as Prince Bolkonski
- Exitz as Percy
- Never Apologize as Self
2006
- Psych as Ambassador Fanshaw
- Heroes
- Metalocalypse as Vater Orlaag (voice)
- Cut Off as James Burton
- The Curse of King Tut's Tomb as Nathan Cairns
- O Lucky Malcolm! as Self
- Bye Bye Benjamin as Mr. Coleman
- The Curse of King Tut's Tomb as Nathan Cairns
2005
- Robot Chicken as 1776 announcer/reporter
- Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone as Ogthar (voice)
- Billy and Mandy Save Christmas as Baron Von Ghoulish (voice)
- Rag Tale as Richard Morton
- Jaws of the Pacific as Narrator (voice)
- Mirror Wars: Reflection One as Dick Murdoch
2004
- Entourage as Terrance McQuewick
- Justice League Unlimited as Metallo (voice)
- Pinocchio 3000 as Scamboli (voice)
- Hidalgo as Major Davenport
- Evilenko as Andrej Romanovic
- In Good Company as Teddy K (uncredited)
- Cast & Crew: If.... as Self - Interviewee
- Tempesta as Paul Valenzin
- Leçon de Cinéma as Self
- Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius as O.B. Keeler
2003
- Teen Titans as Mad Mod (voice)
- Tempo as Shrenger
- The Company as Alberto Antonelli
- Inhabited as Dr. Werner
- I'll Sleep When I'm Dead as Boad
- Dorian as Henry
- Red Roses and Petrol as Enda Doyle
2002
- CSI: Miami as Darren Vogel
- Monk as Julian Hodge
- The Barber as Dexter Miles
- ChalkZone as Barney the Encyclocentipedia (voice)
- I Spy as Gundars
- The Fairy King as Ian
- Firestarter: Rekindled as John Rainbird
- Between Strangers as Alan Baxter
- Shadow Realm as Martin Hudson
2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Jonas Slaughter
- The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as Baron Von Ghoulish
- Just Visiting as Wizard
- Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures as Self
- Princess of Thieves as Sheriff of Nottingham
- The Void as Dr. Thomas Abernathy
2000
- St. Patrick: The Irish Legend as Quentin
- Gangster No. 1 as Gangster 55
- Island of the Dead as Rupert King
- Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange' as Self
- The David Cassidy Story as Jack Cassidy
1999
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn as Self - Guest
- My Life So Far as Uncle Morris MacIntosh
- Southern Cross as Felipe Solano
- Love Lies Bleeding as Malcolm
- Stanley and Us as Self
- Y2K as Seward
- Can of Worms as Barnabus (voice)
- Sharks of the Deep Blue as Narrator
1998
- The First 9½ Weeks as Francois Dubois
- Fantasy Island as Mr. Roarke
- Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy as Narrator (voice)
- Day of the Full Moon
- The Gardener as Ben Carter
1997
- South Park as A British Person (voice)
- Lexx as Yottskry
- Mr. Magoo as Austin Cloquet
- Hugo Pool as Henry Dugay
- 2103: The Deadly Wake as Captain Sean Murdoch
- Asylum as Sullivan Rane / Doc
- Giga Shadow as Yottskry
1996
- Superman: The Animated Series as John Corben (voice)
- Ringer as Noel
- Superman: The Last Son of Krypton as John Corben (voice)
- Yesterday's Target as Holden
- Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys as Rhesus 2 (voice)
- Where Truth Lies as Dr. Vernon Renquist
- Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen as Quote Reader
- Our Friends in the North as Benny Barratt
- Pearl as Professor Stephen Pynchon
- The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century as Czar Nicholas II / Charles Stockwell / Stephen Graham (voice)
- Wing Commander Academy
- The Little Riders as Capt. Kessel
- Night Train to Venice as Stranger
- Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man as Self
1995
- The Outer Limits as Ship (voice)
- Tank Girl as Kesslee
- Fist of the North Star as Ryuken
- The Surgeon as Dr. Stein
- Cyborg 3: The Recycler as Lord Talon
- Dangerous Indiscretion as Roger Everett
- Kids of the Round Table as Merlin
- Fatal Pursuit as Bechtel
1994
- Spider-Man as Whistler (voice)
- Milk Money as Waltzer
- The Magic School Bus as Mr. McClean (voice)
- The Man Who Wouldn't Die as Bernard Drake / Ian Morrissey
- Star Trek: Generations as Dr. Tolian Soran
- Seasons of the Heart as Alfred McGuinness
1993
- Frasier as Dr. Bruga (voice)
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self
- Bopha! as De Villiers
- East Wind as General Smyslovsky
- Your Guide to Star Trek: Generations as Self
1992
- Batman: The Animated Series as Arcady Duvall (voice)
- The Player as Malcolm McDowell
- Tales from the Crypt - Uncut
- Chain of Desire as Hubert Bailey
1991
- Pebble Mill as Self
- Venins as Prof. Baldwin
- Assassin of the Tsar as Timofeyev / Yurovsky
1990
- Moon 44 as Major Lee
- Disturbed as Dr. Derrick Russell
- Class of 1999 as Dr. Miles Langford
- Jezebel's Kiss as Benjamin J. Faberson
- Schweitzer as Albert Schweitzer
- Maggio musicale as Pier Francesco Ferraioli
1989
- Tales from the Crypt as Donald Longtooth
- Happily Ever After as Lord Malice (voice)
- Mortacci as Edmondo
- Buy & Cell as Warden Tennant
- Il maestro as Walter Goldberg
1988
- An Audience With Victoria Wood as Self
- Sunset as Alfie Alperin
1987
- The Caller as The Caller
- The Dame Edna Experience as Self
1986
- Monte Carlo as Christopher Quinn
1985
- Gulag as The Englishman
- Arthur the King as King Arthur
1983
- Cross Creek as Max Perkins
- Get Crazy as Reggie Wanker
- Blue Thunder as Cochrane
- Little Red Riding Hood as The Wolf a.k.a. Reginald Von Lupin / Narrator
1982
- Faerie Tale Theatre as Reginald Von Lupin / The Wolf / Narrator (voice)
- Cat People as Paul Gallier
- Britannia Hospital as Mick Travis
- The Compleat Beatles as Narrator
1981
- A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula' as Self / Caligula
1980
- Look Back in Anger as Jimmy Porter
1979
- Caligula as Caligula
- The Passage as Capt. Von Berkow
- Time After Time as H. G. Wells
- Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip as Self
1978
- An Audience with... as Self
- She Fell Among Thieves as Richard Chandos
1977
- BBC2 Play of the Week as Chandos
- Beryl Reid
1976
- Aces High as Maj. John Gresham
- Voyage of the Damned as Max Gunter
- Laurence Olivier Presents
- The Collection as Bill
1975
- Royal Flash as Captain Harry Flashman / Prince Karl Magnus
1973
- O Lucky Man! as Michael Arnold Travis / Plantation Thief
- O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment as Himself
1971
- Great Performances as Bill
- A Clockwork Orange as Alex
- The Raging Moon as Bruce Pritchard
1970
- Figures in a Landscape as Ansell
1968
- if.... as Mick Travis