Roddy McDowall
Director, Actor
- Man Hunt (1941)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders…
- A Fritz Lang–directed thriller set in Europe just prior to World War II – the first of the German exile's four anti–Nazi films, and…
- Lassie Come Home (1943)
- Dir. Fred M. Wilcox
Feat. Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp…
- Brilliant emotional manipulation for all the family, with the impoverished parents of Roddy McDowall forced to sell their beloved Collie, who…
- White Cliffs of Dover, The (1944)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Roddy McDowall, Irene Dunne…
- Patriotic sentiment up full–bore, this extended saga of English–American fraternising over both World Wars, has Irene Dunne and family…
- Keys of the Kingdom, The (1944)
- Dir. John M. Stahl
Feat. Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price…
- Quietly powerful drama about a devout Catholic priest (played by a young Gregory Peck) who travels to China to establish a parish. Through…
- My Friend Flicka (1945)
- Dir. Harold Schuster
Feat. Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson
- Rancher lad Roddy McDowall is finally allowed a horse of his own, but chooses a wild, unmanageable colt, whose trust he only slowly, and painfully,…
- Macbeth (1948)
- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Roddy McDowall
- An expressionistic version of Shakespeare’s Scottish play, with Welles in the title role.
Shot quickly and on the cheap, this is notoriously…
- Midnight Lace (1960)
- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin…
- Suave thriller with a strong dramatic performance for Day who plays a newly–wed in Paris taunted and pursued by a stalker.
- Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1965)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Robert Loggia…
- Not the greatest movie ever made, however one might get a kick out of spotting all the famous faces in this reverant, picturesque epic about the life…
- That Darn Cat! (1965)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine…
- One of the very best Disney live–action comedies, has Hayley Mills and her Siamese cat help solve a bank–robbery and kidnapping case.…
- Loved One, The (1965)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer…
- Satirical take on the funeral business in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery.
Doing for funerals what that DR…