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Roderick
Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall (September 17, 1928 – October 3, 1998)
was an English-American actor, voice artist, film 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. He began his acting career as a child in England, and then in the
United States, in How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Friend Flicka
(1943) and Lassie Come Home (1943).
As an adult, McDowall appeared most frequently as a character actor on
radio, stage, film, and television. For portraying Augustus in the historical
drama Cleopatra (1963), he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
Other titles include The Longest Day (1962), 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), Class of
1984 (1982), Fright Night (1985), Overboard (1987),
Fright Night Part 2 (1988) and A Bug's Life (1998). He also 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, further 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 this
Board until his death.
Although McDowall made no public statements about his sexual orientation
during his lifetime, several authors have claimed that he was discreetly gay.[20][21]
In the spring and summer of 1965, while working on Inside Daisy Clover,
McDowall made many 8mm movies on-set and in Malibu, of the cast and friends,
which were later given to soap box productions, who transferred to video, and
uploaded to YouTube.[22][23]
In 1974, the
FBI raided McDowall's home and seized his collection of films and
television series in the course of an investigation into film piracy and
copyright infringement. His collection consisted of 160 16-mm prints and more
than 1,000 video cassettes, at a time before the era of commercial videotapes,
when there was no legal aftermarket for films. McDowall had purchased
Errol
Flynn's home cinema films and transferred them all to tape for longer-lasting
archival storage. No charges were filed.[24]
On 3 October 1998, at age 70, McDowall died of lung cancer at his home in
Studio City.[25]
His body was cremated and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean on 7
October 1998 off Los Angeles County.[26]
Dennis Osborne, a screenwriter, had cared for the actor in his final months.
The media quoted Osborne as having said, "It was very peaceful. It was just as
he wanted it. It was exactly the way he planned."[27]
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