Cast: Roddy McDowall
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Roddy McDowall. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 143
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
Tales of the Gold Monkey (TV Series)
1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States
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
Obsessed with Vertigo (TV)
1997 · Documentary · 29 min. · United States
Direction Harrison Engle
Cast Roddy McDowall · Barbara Bel Geddes · Robert A. Harris · Patricia Hitchcock
6.1
102 votes
6.1
102 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
The Martian Chronicles (TV Miniseries)
1980 · Series · 360 min. · United Kingdom
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
Rapunzel (Faerie Tale Theatre Series) (TV)
1983 · Movie · 51 min. · United States
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