Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about RODDY MCDOWALL!
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McDowall died at his home in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, said Dennis Osborne, a friend who had cared for the actor.
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall 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 he was a founding member of the national film preservation board in 1989 . he and his elder sister, Virginia, were raised in their mother’s Catholic faith . he won an acting prize in a school play at age nine . he started appearing in films: Murder in the Family (1938), I See Ice (1938) and Scruffy (1938). he became a 20th Century Fox produced McDowall’s next film How Green Was My Valley (1941) the film won the Academy Award for Best Picture . he played a boy in the war film, Confirm or Deny, then in 1944 exhibitors voted McDowall the number four “Star of Tomorrow” he went back to MGM to support Walter Pidgeon in Holiday in Mexico (1946) he began appearing on television, notably shows like Cela he was in a production of misalliance (1953) that ran for 130 performances . he followed it with Escapade (1953), with Carroll Baker and Brian Aherne . had big critical success with Com he worked on television in shows such as Sunday Showcase, Naked City, and Play of the Week . in 1963, he appeared as Octavius in the film production of Cleopatra . while he appeared as a Special Guest Villain as The Bookworm on Batman . he had a supporting role in Fox’s Shock Treatment (1964) and United Artists’ The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965 he also appeared in The Defector (1966) and returned briefly to Broadway for The Astrakhan Coat (1967).Disney gave him the star role in The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) and he appeared in three sequels and a TV spin-off from the film . he was Prince John in The Legend of Robin Hood (1968) for television . McDowall was not in the first Apes sequel he guest starred on Ironside, The Carol Burnett Show, Columbo and Mission: Impossible . he made his third Apes film with 1972’s Conquest of the Planet of the Ape “i just hope to keep working and in interesting things,” he said in 1975 interview . he also had a regular role in the short-lived sci-fi series The Fantastic Journey (1977). (1977), The Rhinemann Exchange (1978), The Immigrants (1978) and The Thief of Baghdad (1978). TV series included Boomer and Miss 21st Century, Fantasy Island (several In 1989 he said “I feel as Henry Fonda did that every job I get may be my last.” Other features included Doin’ Time on Planet Earth (1988), Fright Night Part 2 (1989), The Big Picture (1989 in 1997, McDowall hosted the MGM Musicals Tribute at Carnegie Hall . he was elected President of the Academy Foundation in 1998, the year that he died . his work includes a cover story on Mae West for Life . he published five books of photographs featuring celebrity friends interviewing each other . his work started with Double Exposure in 1968 . his collection consisted of 160 16-mm prints and more than 1,000 video cassettes . his body was cremated and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean on 7 October 1998 . no charges were filed . “it was very peaceful. It was just as he wanted it,” said Osborne . Those Endearing Young Charms: child performers of the screen, pp. 176–181. Child and Youth Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914–1985. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 1988, pp. 140–144. Holmstrom, John. Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 158–159.