It is sad when Roddy McDowall died there was no one who had a bad word to say against him, in fact it was said that he was one of the only actors in Hollywood to have no one who had a bad word to say against him.
I liked him in movies such as - The Poseidon Adventure , Planet of the Apes , Class of 1984 , Dead of Winter , The Legend of Hell House , Overboard. He was alao in a lot of t.v. shows i liked in the 1970's. . He was a great actor. And he will be missed.
I have always loved his work. And he was such a gifted Photographer. This was a wonderful little glimpse into this lovely man's work and life. Thank You!
He handled his career very well, looked great forever, probably had a great agent and he never squealed. Very likeable, boyish and so many Hollywood friends. His quiet Sunday parties in Malibu are legendary
You are absolutely correct, who cares he was such a great actor, can't say I seen him play a bad part. Could go from evil to good and be totally unrecognizable under make-up except for his voice, he was just a good actor.
Roddy McDowall child actor, teen actor, photographer, adult (get your mind out of gutter) actor, Hollywood host , Failed Director (Tam Lynn), Broadway Star, Movie Collector, Secret Keeper, Legendary Bad Cook passed from Brain Cancer.
A quick word about the GLBTQ controversy. To use it as a voting bloc sows chaos in the electorate. In the 60's protest groups helped to stop the cruel and unjust imprisonment of homosexuals. This was a step forward for democracy. Today, without fear of imprisonment, homosexuality belongs to the realm of the individual. It should be a private matter and not brought forward for politicians to use as a tool for division.
While people in Hollywood knew about his homosexuality he was so extremely discreet that nobody not even the FBI could ever prove it... That doesn't mean somebody couldn't have accused him and got him into trouble it just means if anybody ever did there were plenty of friends and bigwigs around him who would have come down on their heads like a ton of bricks.
Roddy McDowall has been my favorite actor since I was a child of 7 years old. I’m 61 years old now and still watch Roddy’s movies on a regular basis. I enjoy his movies when he was a child but the older I got the more I liked the adult roles in movies and theatre he was in. I saw the play Dial M for Murder in 1996 with my family. It was in Philadelphia in February of 1996. Roddy played Inspector Hubbard and when he entered the stage the applause was so loud that he took a quick bow. I have a postcard he wrote and signed from Universal Studios in October 1976. I was so happy to hear from him and keep that in the Playbill from Dial M for Murder. I will always love this well respected and gifted talent. Rest in Peace Roddy McDowall 🙏✨🙏
He accomodated and was a bit of a "fixer" for the Hollywood movie industry society, was always available to accompany single stars to social events, was always around at major parties, a bit of a social butterfly friend and a hanger-on, kept their confidences and secrets that died with him upon his death. A trusted confidente to many of the industry. Hoover knew this and needed Roddy's information for his blackmail files on celebrities and wealthy society people. In the end Hoover needed that information in order to prevent his forced removal or "retirement" from his position as FBI Director. It worked because there were many attempts to force him out which ultimately did not succeed. He ended up remaining as FBI Director on the day he expired.
When I was in High School I noticed an oddity in the obituary column of the Dallas Morning News. An individual with the last name of Roddy had died, another with the name McDowell had passed, and whatever bored individual was editing transposed them out of order so they would appear together. I showed this to my crazy cousin, saying, "Roddy McDowell both died!", although he was very much alive at the time. For the remainder of the actor's life, my cousin and I insisted on referring to him in the plural sense, as if there were two of him...
Does anyone remember the online fight between Rodney Dangerfield and Roddy McDowall? Roddy McDowall was President of The Academy Motion Pictures and he trashed Dangerfield’s Movies. Every night you checked in to see the latest Dangerfield joke. It was early internet but so hilarious.
He was ahead of his time most of those tapes the reason he was never accused or indicted or whatever you want to call it is because he had legally obtained them not illegally he had bought them legally and at the time if you bought something like that legally you had a right as long as you did not sell them to keep them because that was not copyright infringement I remember an interview he gave he wasn't the only one who gave this in an interview he wasn't the only one who said it he was archiving these because he was worried that a lot of these films were getting ruined in fact he knew several of the films that he had bought had damage and he had learned over the years how to fix that damaged much as I had learned how to fix some of those very old movies when I was a kid and I'm not that old by the wayas an army brat the films that I'm talking about were ones that were found in an archived in the school that had once been an administration building during the second world war and even before for the US military and because of that we were showed movies from that time period you know Robin Hood and Sherlock Holmes for example rare copy of Sherlock Holmes really rare I don't think you'll find it anywhere. Some of those films were in fact they had tears and whatnot and I had to repair them and I was the one of the best at doing it. In the interview he said that his reason for buying many of these films was in fact to preserve them and that was the reason that the FBI could not charged him with copyright infringement since in order for it to be infringement you have to sell it or show it illegally and he had the paperwork to show that he had obtained these prints legally.
On second thought, I don't think I'll watch this to find out what the "crime" was. By all accounts, Roddy McDowall was a sweetheart, one of the most liked actors in Hollywood. If he ever did anything bad to anybody, even inadvertently, I don't want to know.
I have been since my 6 day marriage. Actually, I was married for 3 1/2 years. Most of which was spent in getting a divorce. We were both in the Army and were literally as far apart as you can get when we waited out the time required to get a no-fault divorce. That was 1980 when I got out and we were married in 1976.
Nice guy. We kill to live and live to die.If we stay here we die. We have nothing to lose. We must explore the center of our Plane directly under Polaris at Magnetic North and the lands beyond our ice wall to see if Hyperborea exists and if there is a portal out of this no win situation.
