Cast: Roddy McDowall

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Roddy McDowall. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Midnight Lace

1960 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Doris Day · Rex Harrison · John Gavin · Myrna Loy

Synopsis Kit and Anthony Preston never had a real honeymoon, and the midnight lace pajamas are for when they can finally get out of London. Anthony's business is very pressing these days. Then Kit is frightened one day in a London...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Planet of the Apes (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis · Bernard McEveety · Don McDougall · Arnold Laven

Cast Roddy McDowall · Ron Harper · James Naughton · Mark Lenard

Synopsis Television series about a group of astronauts who travel in time and become marooned on a planet. Unbeknownst to them, they are actually on future Earth. The astronauts encounter an advanced civilization run by apes, but supported by enslaved human...

6.3

322 votes

6.3

322 votes

Columbo: Short Fuse (TV)

1972 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Edward M. Abroms

Cast Peter Falk · Roddy McDowall · Anne Francis · James Gregory

Synopsis A chemical plant's director gets threats and issues threats, and one of the employees develops and plants a bomb in his car. When the car turns out to be missing, Columbo is called to find out what happened.

6.3

304 votes

6.3

304 votes

Direction Donald P. Bellisario · Virgil W. Vogel · James Frawley · Harvey S. Laidman

Cast Stephen Collins · Jeff MacKay · John Calvin · Marta DuBois

Synopsis TV Series (1982). 22 episodes. Jake Cutter is a pilot and adventurer in Boragora, the port in the Marivella Islands in 1938. He flies his Grumman Goose amphibian on inter-island flights and finds adventure every week.

6.3

401 votes

6.3

401 votes

The Loved One

1965 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Robert Morse · Anjanette Comer · Jonathan Winters · Dana Andrews

Synopsis A clash of cultures is under way when a young British poet must come to California to preside over the burial of his Hollywood star uncle. He encounters a tawdry mortuary business in this wildly black and strange comedy based...

6.2

264 votes

6.2

264 votes

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

1974 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction John Hough

Cast Peter Fonda · Susan George · Adam Roarke · Kenneth Tobey

Synopsis Larry (Peter Fonda) and Deke (Adam Roarke) rob a supermarket and make their getaway accompanied by the not entirely welcome Mary (Susan George), with the police in hot pursuit...

6.2

253 votes

6.2

253 votes

Fright Night

1985 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Tom Holland

Cast Chris Sarandon · William Ragsdale · Amanda Bearse · Roddy McDowall

Synopsis For young Charlie Brewster, nothing could be better than an old horror movie late at night. Two men move in next door, and for Charlie with his horror movie experience, there can be no doubt that their strange behavior is...

6.2

7K votes

6.2

7K votes

The Legend of Hell House

1973 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Hough

Cast Pamela Franklin · Roddy McDowall · Clive Revill · Gayle Hunnicutt

Synopsis A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone...

6.1

2K votes

6.1

2K votes

Inside Daisy Clover

1965 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Robert Mulligan

Cast Natalie Wood · Robert Redford · Christopher Plummer · Roddy McDowall

Synopsis When teenage beachnik Daisy Clover is discovered by a Hollywood studio, she has no idea how much her life is about to change. Daisy instantly becomes a big movie star, going from rags to riches, and enjoying such perks as...

6.0

337 votes

6.0

337 votes

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965 · Movie · 200 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens · David Lean · Jean Negulesco

Cast Max von Sydow · Dorothy McGuire · Charlton Heston · Claude Rains

Synopsis George Stevens presents his monumental adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ starring Max von Sydow. The film concentrates on the most familiar episodes of the biblical story, including the birth of Christ in Bethlehem, Herod's (Jose Ferrer) decree of...

6.0

3K votes

6.0

3K votes

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Rock Hudson · Gayle Hunnicutt · Bernie Casey · Christopher Connelly

Synopsis From the mind of science-fiction giant Ray Bradbury springs what is perhaps his most epic vision. Capturing mankind's first venture into the colonization of another planetand its tragic first contact with another species"The Martian Chronicles" is a stunning achievement that...

6.0

231 votes

6.0

231 votes

Class of 1984

1982 · Movie · 98 min. · Canada

Direction Mark L. Lester

Cast Perry King · Merrie Lynn Ross · Timothy Van Patten · Roddy McDowall

Synopsis A music teacher (Perry King) at a tough Los Angeles high school reaches 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...

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes

It's my Party

1996 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Randal Kleiser

Cast Eric Roberts · Lee Grant · Olivia Newton-John · Marlee Matlin

Synopsis Eric Roberts portrays a successful architect who throws a farewell party for friends and family after he learns he is losing his hard- fought battle against the AIDS virus in this vibrant film that co-stars Gregory Harrison.

5.8

296 votes

5.8

296 votes

Lord Love a Duck

1966 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction George Axelrod

Cast Roddy McDowall · Tuesday Weld · Lola Albright · Martin West

Synopsis High-school senior Barbara Ann Greene has a lot to overcome to reach her dreams to be popular, get a job, find a husband, and maybe even be a movie star: she's poor, her parents are divorced, and her mother is...

5.7

24 votes

5.7

24 votes

Funny Lady

1975 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Ross

Cast Barbra Streisand · James Caan · Omar Sharif · Roddy McDowall

Synopsis When Barbra Streisand played Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, she brought to life a sympathetic yet strong-headed performer of stage and radio. In the sequel, Funny Lady, Brice comes off as a harsher woman, slightly bitchy, without the tremendous charm...

5.6

450 votes

5.6

450 votes

The Fantastic Journey (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Vincent McEveety · Barry Crane · Art Fisher · Victor French

Cast Jared Martin · Carl Franklin · Ike Eisenmann · Katie Saylor

Synopsis A scientific expedition in the Atlantic Ocean becomes lost in the Bermuda Triangle and washes up on an uncharted island. They meet up with travelers from other times, planets and dimensions who have also become trapped, and together they "slide"...

5.6

32 votes

5.6

32 votes

The Grass Harp

1995 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Charles Matthau

Cast Piper Laurie · Sissy Spacek · Walter Matthau · Edward Furlong

Synopsis After his mother's death, Collin Fenwick goes to live with his father's cousins, the wealthy, avaricious, and controlling Verena Talbo, and her compliant, earthy sister Dolly. When a city slicker comes to town and convinces Verena to market Dolly's locally-famous...

5.6

439 votes

5.6

439 votes

Dead of Winter

1987 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Mary Steenburgen · Roddy McDowall · Jan Rubes · William Russ

Synopsis A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.

5.6

389 votes

5.6

389 votes

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Shelley Duvall · Jeff Bridges · Phil Fondacaro · Roddy McDowall

Synopsis Long hair and true love conquer all in this retelling of the classic tale of Rapunzel. A childless Witch (Hope Floats' Gena Rowlands) steals a baby girl and whisks her away to a tall tower where she raises her as...

5.5

196 votes

5.5

196 votes