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  • Fright Night
  • Fright Night review by Fan from Oswestry
    Rated - 5.0 stars One of the best Comedy/Horror Vampier Thriller of the Mid 80's Cult Classic Movie 2 July 2010
    ...rbs, the acting was absolutley amazing from actors I've never heard (except for Roddy McDowall), I would say thats this is their best performances they probabley ever done, t...   Read customer review
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Planet of the Apes review by RJNeb2 from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars Two hairy thumbs up 12 August 2007
    ...re plenty of moments of humour and excellent characterisation. That Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall and Maurice Evans are able to create such indelible characters underneath all t...   Read customer review

Roddy McDowall - filmography


  • A Bug's Life on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Dave Foley,  John Ratzenberger,  Bonnie Hunt
    Director: John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Life is no picnic for the ants on Ant Island! Each summer, a gang of greedy grasshoppers - led by the menacing and manipulative Hopper - descends upon the colony to demand a hefty portion of the ants' hard-earned harvest and generally make life miserable for this peaceful community. Our hero Flik,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 29,983 members
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  • The Grass Harp (1998)
    Starring: Joe Don Baker,  Sissy Spacek,  Mary Steenburgen
    Director: Charles Matthau
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Edward Furlong stars in this adaptation of a Truman Capote novella. Following the death of his mother, Collin Fenwick (Furlong) goes to live with his two maiden aunts. He prefers the sweet-natured Dolly (Piper Laurie) to the self-centred Vera (Sissy Spacek), and sides with the former when she ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 154 members
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  • A Bug's Life - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: John Ratzenberger,  Bonnie Hunt,  Phyllis Dill
    Director: John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Every year the ant colony of a tiny island are forced to hand over their midsummer grain to a marauding band of grasshoppers, led by the evil Hopper (voiced by Kevin Spacey). Worker ant Flik (Dave Foley) sets off to get help from the big city, where he mistakes a troupe of circus bugs for fierce ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,057 member
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  • Cutting Class on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Robert Glaudini,  Donovan Leitch,  Brad Pitt
    Director: Rospo Pallenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    All is not well at Wurleigh Heigh. A series of violent murders is causing the students to cut class and seek solace in the bottle. Who is responsible? Is it young Brian, so recently returned from mental hospital? Or is it the psychotic, student-hating night janitor?
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 227 members
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  • Around The World In Eighty Days on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Julia Nickson-Soul,  Lee Remick,  John Mills
    Director: Buzz Kulik
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Pierce Brosnan and Eric Idle star in the remake of the 1956 movie based on Jules Verne's classic novel about a Victorian English gentleman, Phileas Fogg and his valet who make a bet that they can circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days. Using almost every form of transport possible at the time, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 504 members
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  • Dead of Winter (1987)
    Starring: Mary Steenburgen,  Roddy Mcdowall,  Roddy McDowall
    Director: Arthur Penn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Katie McGovern is a struggling actress living with her lazy husband and her student brother. She attends an audition that she found in the paper and is selected to shoot a short video which will be sent to the director for his approval. Mr. Murray, the auditioner, picks Katie up and takes her to a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 4 members
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  • Fright Night on DVD (1985)
    Starring: William Ragsdale,  Amanda Bearse,  Stephen Geoffreys
    Director: Tom Holland
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When young horror fan Charley (William Ragsdale) discovers his next-door neighbour (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire, his mother and the police just think that he has watched too many horror films. In fact, the only person he can convince of his fears is the host of the horror television show 'Fright ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 5,589 members
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  • Class Of 1984 (1982)
    Starring: Timothy Van Patten,  Merrie Lyn Ross,  Roddy McDowall
    Director: Mark L. Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Thriller about a music teacher (Perry King) at a tough Los Angeles high school who attempts to reach out to his students with the gift of music only to find a gang of sadistic punk rockers is actively dissuading new members from joining the orchestra. The punkers are led by Peter Stegman (Timothy ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,014 member
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  • Evil Under The Sun on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Jane Birkin,  Peter Ustinov,  Colin Blakely
    Director: Guy Hamilton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Agatha Christie's famous detective Hercule Poirot returns in this murder mystery set in the Balearic islands. When beautiful socialite Arlena Marshall (Diana Rigg) is found strangled on a Mediterranean island, there is no shortage of suspects for Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) to eliminate from his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 645 members
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  • Scavenger Hunt (1979)
    Starring: Richard Benjamin,  James Coco,  Ruth Gordon
    Director: Michael Schultz
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Old Mr. Parker has made millions inventing and selling games. At the beginning of the movie, he dies and his relatives gather for the reading of the will. However, old Mr. Parker is a game player to the last, and his will stipulates a Scavenger Hunt to determine which relative will get the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 6 members
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  • Rabbit Test on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Billy Crystal,  Joan Rivers,  Imogene Coca
    Director: Joan Rivers
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    'Rabbit Test' is the story of Lionel (Billy Crystal), a young virgin male who is engaged to be married when he finds out he is pregnant. Soon everyone's trying to cash in on his act.
    1.5 stars out of 5 33% from 45 members
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  • The Silent Flute on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Jeff Cooper,  Eli Wallach,  David Carradine
    Director: Richard Moore
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Cord the Seeker undertakes a journey to discover the Book of Enlightenment. On his way he does battle with Monkey, Panther, Rhythm and Zetan, Keeper of the Book. His only companion is a blind man who plays a haunting flute. This combination of martial arts and spiritualism was originally written as ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 100 members
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  • Embryo on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Vincent Baggetta,  Rock Hudson,  Barbara Carrera
    Director: Ralph Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    1970s sci-fi horror starring Rock Hudson. In three days a scientist (Hudson) grows a fully developed woman by injecting a special growth hormone into an embryo that he took from a female suicide victim. The woman (Barbara Carrera) falls madly for her creator but the experiment inevitably goes wrong ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 109 members
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  • Mean Johnny Barrows (1976)
    Starring: Elliott Gould,  Fred Williams,  Stuart Whitman
    Director: Fred Williams
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    1970s blaxploitation offering from actor/director Fred Williamson. Vietnam veteran Johnny Barrows (Williamson) finds himself discharged from the army for striking his commanding officer. On his release, with no money and no prospects, Johnny starts working in the local gas station. However, it isn'..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 10 members
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  • The Legend of Hell House on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Peter Bowles,  Gayle Hunnicutt,  Roland Culver
    Director: John Hough
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A group of psychic investigators steel their nerves and make ready to visit Hell House, an old haunted mansion which has already seen off one team of researchers. Entering its foreboding walls, they determine to reveal the house's secrets - but they will have to broach the very limits of madness ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 925 members
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  • The Poseidon Adventure on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Carol Lynley,  Eric Shea,  Jack Albertson
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When a luxury liner is upturned by a tidal wave on New Year's Eve, ten survivors struggle to stay alive as they seek a means of escape. Resourceful man of the cloth Reverend Frank Scott (Gene Hackman) assumes responsibility for his fellow passengers, who include a pop singer, an elderly Jewish ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,658 members
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  • Bedknobs and Broomsticks on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Angela Lansbury,  Tessie O'Shea,  David Tomlinson
    Director: Robert Stevenson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    In 1940 three English children are evacuated from London, only to discover the lady they're staying with (Angela Lansbury) is a witch - but a good one. With the aid of her spells and a magic bed, the children visit an undersea kingdom, witness a football match played by teams of wild cartoon ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 10,849 members
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  • Night Gallery - Series 1 (3 discs) on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Diane Keaton,  Larry Hagman,  Roddy McDowall
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All 17 episodes from the first season of the spine-tingling 1970s series hosted by master of suspense Rod Serling. Episodes are: 'The Cemetery', 'Eyes', 'The Escape Route', 'The Dead Man', 'The Housekeeper', 'Room with a View', 'The Little Black Bag', 'The Nature of the Enemy', 'The House', '..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 296 members
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  • Five Card Stud on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Robert Mitchum,  Inger Stevens,  Dean Martin
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When a man is accused of cheating at poker in the town of Rincon, Colorado, gambler Van Morgan (Dean Martin) tries to intervene on his behalf, but his attempts fail and the man is lynched. Sometime later, Morgan hears that members of the lynch mob have begun turning up dead, each one of them ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 322 members
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  • Planet of the Apes on DVD (1968)
    Starring: James Whitmore,  James Daly,  Charlton Heston
    Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A group of astronauts, led by George Taylor (Charlton Heston), crash land on a strange planet where mute humans are treated as slaves by intelligent apes. Taylor is hunted down and captured by horse-riding gorillas, and then taken for experimentation by sympathetic chimpanzee Dr Zira (Kim Hunter). ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,866 members
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  • That Darn Cat on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Dorothy Provine,  Dean Jones,  Hayley Mills
    Director: Robert Stevenson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Classic comedy starring Hayley Mills. A young woman with an active imagination contacts the FBI when her cat DC (Darn Cat) comes home wearing a wristwatch. She's convinced its the tip-off to crack a bank robbery and kidnapping case that has the authorities baffled. An allergic agent is assigned to '..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 382 members
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  • The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
    Starring: Pat Boone,  David McCallum,  Van Heflin
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    George Stevens' epic retelling of the Bible substitutes Utah for the Middle East and features a host of big names in cameo roles. Concentrating on the birth, life, execution and resurrection of Christ (Max von Sydow), Stevens was helped by fellow directors David Lean and Jean Negulesco in the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 690 members
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  • Midnight Lace on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Myrna Loy,  Doris Day,  Hermione Baddeley
    Director: David Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Kit (Doris Day), an American married to wealthy London businessman Tony Preston (Rex Harrison) becomes the terrified victim of a mysterious stalker, who she hears but can never see. She is threatened by the eerie, high-pitched voice as she walks in the thick London fog. She then begins receiving ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 409 members
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  • Orson Welles' Macbeth on DVD (1948)
    Starring: Orson Welles,  Edgar Barrier,  John Dierkes
    Director: Orson Welles
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Orson Welles was so keen to make this film that he had to agree to shoot it in 23 days using only existing western movie sets. Macbeth ( Welles), Thane of Cawdor, is told by three witches that he will gain the kingdom. His wife, Lady Macbeth (Jeanette Nolan), urges him to hasten the prophecy with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 659 members
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  • My Friend Flicka on DVD (1943)
    Starring: James Bell,  Arthur Loft,  Rita Johnson
    Director: Harold Schuster
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Technicolour film version of Mary O'Hara's novel. Roddy McDowall stars as Ken McLaughlin, a wayward boy who shows little application in his studies, and whose relationship with his rancher father, Rob (Preston S. Foster), is troubled. To teach Ken responsibility, his father asks him to choose a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 377 members
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  • How Green Was My Valley on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Mae Marsh,  Ann E. Todd,  Rhys Williams
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In John Ford's HOW GREEN IS MY VALLEY, Huw Morgan, now a middle-aged man leaving the mining town of Cwm Rhondda, recalls the events that most impressed themselves upon his younger self (Roddy McDowall). His first memories are of the marriage of his brother, Ivor (Patric Knowles), and the burgeoning ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,645 member
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  • How Green Was My Valley - Blu-ray (1941)
    Starring: Sara Allgood,  Anna Lee,  Patrick Knowles
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director John Ford's classic tale of a childhood spent in a turn-of-the-century Welsh mining village. Focusing on one family and their six sons, the action is seen through the eyes of young Huw (Roddy McDowall), and charts the everyday struggles of the local community. Nominated in the same year as ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 7 members
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  • Man Hunt on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Walter Pidgeon,  Joan Bennett,  George Sanders
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Fritz Lang's political thriller follows a British hunter's attempts to outrun Nazi agents after he targets Adolf Hitler. While on holiday in Bavaria, willdlife hunter Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) stumbles upon the Fuhrer's country retreat, eventually spotting Hitler in the gardens. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 114 members
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  • Lassie Box Set (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Elizabeth Taylor,  Donald Crisp,  Roddy McDowall
    Director: Fred M. Wilox
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Triple bill featuring the heroic collie dog. In 'Lassie Come Home' (1943), a collie dog, sold by her destitute family, escapes to begin the long journey back from Scotland to her home in Yorkshire. In 'Son of Lassie' (1945), Lassie's son 'Laddie' is separated from his master in German occupied ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 191 members
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Roddy McDowall facts

5 most recent films

A Bug's Life - 3.5 stars
The Grass Harp - 2.5 stars
A Bug's Life - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Unlikely Angel - 3.5 stars
Fright Night 2 - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

A Bug's Life - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Murder She Wrote - Series 5 - 4.0 stars
Bedknobs and Broomsticks - 3.5 stars
Planet Of The Apes Collection - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Subterraneans - 1.0 stars
Rabbit Test - 1.5 stars
Mean Johnny Barrows - 2.0 stars
The Keys of the Kingdom - 2.5 stars
Molly And Me - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Roddy Mcdowall - 51 times - show films
Kevin McCarthy - 6 times - show films
Warren Oates - 6 times - show films
Donald Crisp - 6 times - show films
Doug McClure - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Anthony Pullen Shaw - 7 times - show films
Vincent McE - 7 times - show films
Walter Grauman - 7 times - show films
Douglas Heyes - 6 times - show films
Buzz Kulik - 5 times - show films