Roddy McDowall
Born: 1928-09-17 in London, England, UK
Died: 1998-10-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2024
- Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes as Self (archive footage)
- Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- The Return of Captain Sinbad as Narrator
2000
- Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies as Self
- Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley' as Self (archive footage)
- Mary Pickford: A Life on Film as Self
1999
1998
- A Bug's Life as Mr. Soil (voice)
- Godzilla: The Series
- Behind the Planet of the Apes as Self - Host
- Loss of Faith as Henry Stokes
- Beyond Titanic as Self
- Something to Believe In as Gambler
- Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists as Narrator (voice)
- Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu as Himself - Actor / Friend
1997
- The New Batman Adventures as Mad Hatter (voice)
- The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo as King Murphy
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line as Self
- Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero as Self
- Obsessed with Vertigo as Narrator (Voice)
- Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years as Self
- Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough as Self
- Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady as Self
- Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain as Self
- Pinky and the Brain: Mice of the Jungle as Snowball (voice)
1996
- Superman: The Animated Series as Mad Hatter (voice)
- Remember WENN as Giles Aldwych
- The Grass Harp as Amos Legrand
- It's My Party as Damian Knowles
- Star Hunter as Riecher
- Unlikely Angel as Saint Peter
- Dead Man's Island as Trevor Dunnaway
1995
- Pinky and the Brain as Snowball (voice)
- Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker as Self
- Last Summer in the Hamptons as Thomas
- The Alien Within as Dr. Henry Lazarus
1994
- Gargoyles as Proteus (voice)
- Duckman as Akers (voice)
- Burke's Law as Maurice Gillette
- Angel 4: Undercover as Geoffrey Kagen
- Heads as Fibris Drake
- Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is as Jeremy Sennet
- The Story of Lassie as Self
- Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance as Dr. Lasky
- Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill as Self
- Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic as Narrator (voice)
1993
- SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron as Madkat (voice)
- The Evil Inside Me as Pauly
1992
- Batman: The Animated Series as Mad Hatter (voice)
- MGM: When the Lion Roars
- Double Trouble as Phillip Chamberlin
- The Sands of Time as Alan Tucker
- The Magical World of Chuck Jones as Self
- The Naked Target as Ernest Peabody
1991
- The Legend of Prince Valiant
- The Pirates of Dark Water as Niddler (voice)
- An Inconvenient Woman as Cyril Rathbone
- Earth Angel as Mr. Tatum
- Going Under as Secretary Neighbor
- Deadly Game as Dr. Aaron
- Stars and Stripes: Hollywood and World War II as Self
- Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper as Self
- Timmy's Gift: A Precious Moments Christmas as Narrator (voice)
1990
- Dream On as Bob Jeffers
- Shakma as Sorenson
- The Color of Evening as Henry Seaton
1989
- Quantum Leap as Edward St. John V
- Around the World in 80 Days as McBaines
- The New Lassie
- Nightmare Classics as Inspector Amos
- The Big Picture as Judge
- Cutting Class as Mr. Dante
- Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self (voice)
- Hollywood on Horses as Self
- Carmilla as Inspector Amos
- Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius as Self
- When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen as Self
1988
- Fright Night Part 2 as Peter Vincent
- Doin' Time on Planet Earth as Minister
- Remo Williams: The Prophecy as Chiun
1987
- Biography as Self
- Overboard as Andrew
- Dead of Winter as Mr. Murray
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1986
- Matlock as Christopher Hoyt
- The Wizard
- Bridges to Cross
- GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords as Nuggit (voice)
1985
- Fright Night as Peter Vincent
- Alice in Wonderland as March Hare
- George Burns Comedy Week as Bob Cratchit
- Hollywood Wives as Jason Swandle
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Dr. Alger Kenyon, PHD
- The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood as Prince John
1983
- The Wind in the Willows as Ratty (voice)
- This Girl for Hire as Manfred Hayes
- Rapunzel as Narrator
1982
- Hotel as Anthony Spears
- Faerie Tale Theatre as Narrator (voice)
- Tales of the Gold Monkey as "Bon Chance" Louie
- Class of 1984 as Terry Corrigan
- Evil Under the Sun as Rex Brewster
- The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' as Self / Rex Brewster
- Twilight Theatre as Self - Host
- Hollywood’s Children as Self (Narrator)
- Mae West as Rene Valentine
- Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1981
- Here's Boomer
- Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen as Gillespie
- The Million Dollar Face as Derek Kenyon
1980
- The Martian Chronicles as Father Stone
- The Return of the King as Samwise Gamgee (voice)
- Back to the Planet of the Apes as Galen
- Farewell to the Planet of the Apes as Galen
- The Memory of Eva Ryker as MacFarland
- Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes as Galen
- Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes as Galen
- The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes as Galen
1979
- Trapper John, M.D.
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Governor Saroyan
- Supertrain as Benjamin Warren Talcott
- $weepstake$ as Theodore
- The Black Hole as V.I.N.CENT. (voice) (uncredited)
- Scavenger Hunt as Jenkins
- Sitcom: The Adventures of Garry Marshall as Chuck the Robot (voice)
- Hart to Hart as Dr. Peterson
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Planet of the Slave Girls as Governor Saroyan
1978
- Fantasy Island as Mephistopheles
- Flying High
- The Cat from Outer Space as Mr. Stallwood
- Laserblast as Doctor Mellon
- Circle of Iron as White Robe
- Rabbit Test as Gypsy Grandmother / Dr. D & C Fishbine
- The Immigrants as Mark Levy
- The Thief of Baghdad as Hasan
- The Immigrants as Mark Levy
1977
- The Love Boat as Fred Beery
- The Fantastic Journey as Dr. Jonathan Willaway
- The Rhinemann Exchange as Bobby Ballard
- Flood! as Mr. Franklin
- The Fantastic Journey as Dr. Jonathan Willoway
- Sixth and Main as Skateboard
1976
- Embryo as Frank Riley
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- It's Showtime as Self (archive footage)
- Mowgli's Brothers as Mowgli (voice)
1975
- Wonder Woman as Henry Roberts
- Ellery Queen
- Funny Lady as Bobby Moore
- Mean Johnny Barrows as Tony Da Vince
- The White Seal as Narrator/ White Seal
- Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait as Self
1974
- Police Woman as Moulton
- Harry O
- Planet of the Apes as Galen
- Dirty Mary Crazy Larry as George Stanton (uncredited)
- The Elevator as Marvin Ellis
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Stanley Lambert
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- Battle for the Planet of the Apes as Caesar
- The Snoop Sisters as Lionel Standish
- The Legend of Hell House as Benjamin Franklin Fischer
- Arnold as Robert
- Miracle on 34th Street as Dr. Sawyer
1972
- The Rookies
- The Poseidon Adventure as Acres
- Conquest of the Planet of the Apes as Caesar
- Delphi Bureau as Harold
- The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean as Frank Gass
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
- Corky as Harassed Salesman
1971
- Columbo as Roger Stanford
- Great Performances as Self
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes as Cornelius
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks as Mr. Jelk
- Terror in the Sky as Dr. Ralph Baird
- Pretty Maids All in a Row as Mr. Proffer
- A Taste of Evil as Dr. Michael Lomas
- What's a Nice Girl Like You...? as Albert Soames
- Journey to Murder as Rollo Verdew
1970
- McCloud as Phil Sandler
- The Ballad of Tam Lin ... (Director)
1969
- Love, American Style as Howard
- Night Gallery as Jeremy Evans
- Hello Down There as Nate Ashbury
- Angel, Angel, Down We Go as Santoro
- Midas Run as Wister
1968
- The Name of the Game as Philip Saxon
- Planet of the Apes as Cornelius
- Journey to the Unknown as Rollo Verdew
- 5 Card Stud as Nick Evers
- The Legend of Robin Hood as Prince John
1967
- Ironside
- The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest
- The Invaders as Lloyd Lindstrom
- The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin as Bullwhip Griffin
- It! as Arthur Pimm
- The Cool Ones as Tony Krum
- Cricket on the Hearth as Cricket Crocket (voice)
- Saint Joan as Charles, The Dauphin
1966
- Batman as The Bookworm
- Mission: Impossible as Leo Ostro
- Felony Squad
- Lord Love a Duck as Alan Musgrave
- Inside Daisy Clover as Walter Baines
- The Defector as Agent Adams
1965
- Run for Your Life as Gyula Bognar
- The Greatest Story Ever Told as Matthew
- The Loved One as D.J. Jr.
- That Darn Cat! as Gregory Benson
- The Third Day as Oliver Parsons
1964
- Shock Treatment as Martin Ashley
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Arthur Biddle
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Robert 'Professor' Benson
- Arrest and Trial
- The Danny Kaye Show as Self
- Cleopatra as Octavian - Caesar Augustus
- The Power and the Glory as Mestizo
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as George
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Longest Day as Pvt. Morris
1961
1960
- Midnight Lace as Malcolm
- The Tempest as Ariel
- The Subterraneans as Yuri Gilgoric
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Sam Conrad
1958
- Naked City as Donnie Benton
- The Big Country as Hannassey Watchman (uncredited)
- Heart of Darkness as Charles Marlow
1957
1955
1953
- General Electric Theater as Leprechaun
1952
- The Steel Fist as Eric Kardin
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
- Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration as Pvt. Huntington (The Professor)
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Gerald Forbes
- Lux Video Theatre as Pete
- Killer Shark as Ted White
- Everybody's Dancin' as Roddy McDowall
- Big Timber as Jimmy
1949
- Tuna Clipper as Alec MacLennan
- Black Midnight as Scott Jordan
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Macbeth as Malcolm
- Kidnapped as David Balfour
- Rocky as Chris Hammond
1947
- Kraft Television Theatre as Mr. Elton
1946
- Holiday in Mexico as Stanley Owen
1945
- Thunderhead: Son of Flicka as Ken McLaughlin
- Molly and Me as Jimmy Graham
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self
- The Keys of the Kingdom as Francis Chisholm, as a boy
- The White Cliffs of Dover as John Ashwood II as a Boy
1943
- Lassie Come Home as Joe Carraclough
- My Friend Flicka as Ken McLaughlin
1942
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Benjamin - as a Boy
- The Pied Piper as Ronnie Cavanaugh
- On the Sunny Side as Hugh Aylesworth
1941
- How Green Was My Valley as Huw Morgan
- Man Hunt as Vaner
- This England as Hugo
- Confirm or Deny as Albert Perkins
- You Will Remember as Young Bob Slater
1940
- Saloon Bar as Boy
- His Brother’s Keeper as Boy
- Just William as Ginger
1939
- Poison Pen as Choirboy
- The Outsider as Cured Child
1938
- I See Ice as Boy on train
- Convict 99 as Jimmy
- Murder in the Family as Peter Osborne
- Hey! Hey! USA as Boy