| 1 | [[quoteright:315:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/793full_roddy_mcdowall.jpg]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:315:''"[Acting is] the only profession where the accumulation of reputation and excellence doesn't really mean very much next Monday morning. It's like being a fruit picker; it's seasonal."'']] |
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| 4 | ->''"Roddy [=McDowall=] was the quintessential gentleman. He showed up to the sessions in a tweed sport coat, perfectly creased white shirt, and an ascot tie. He was Old Hollywood in every best sense of that word. He showed up on time, he was a delight... and I never got a sense for a second that he felt he was slumming by doing a cartoon. He was delighted to be there. The work was as real and important to him as ''Film/HowGreenWasMyValley''. He treated it with the same professionalism, and he grew to love [his character] Snowball."'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''Creator/MauriceLaMarche''', when asked what it was like working with [=McDowall=] on the animated series ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' |
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| 7 | Roderick Andre Anthony Jude [=McDowall=] (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998), known professionally as Roddy [=McDowall=], was an English-American actor, voice actor, film director, and photographer. |
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| 9 | He started acting when he was ten years old during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, gaining prominence for his roles in such films as ''Film/HowGreenWasMyValley'', ''Film/LassieComeHome'', and ''My Friend Flicka'', and continued in his acting career until his death, ultimately becoming known as a talented character actor across a wide range of projects -- amongst them the original ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' films as Dr. Cornelius and his son Caesar, and Octavian in ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'', for which he would have gotten an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination had Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox not screwed up the paperwork. Fox felt so bad about this they took an ad in the trade papers to publicly apologize. |
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| 11 | He has the distinction of playing not one but two ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' villains in two different adaptations of the franchise; he played the one-shot villain Bookworm in [[Series/Batman1966 the '60s live-action series]] and later voiced Jervis Tetch the Mad Hatter in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. (He also narrated the audiobook of the {{novelization}} of [[Film/Batman1989 the 1989 film]].) |
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| 13 | In his later years, he lent his voice to many a cartoon; in addition to playing the Mad Hatter, he was also the villainous hamster Snowball in ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'', Samwise Gamgee in the Creator/RankinBass version of ''WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing'', and the Water Rat in their version of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Wind in the Willows|1985}}''. His last role was the voice of the ant Mr. Soil in Creator/{{Pixar}}'s ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. By all accounts he adored working on cartoons -- see the page quote above. |
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| 15 | [=McDowall=] eventually lost his battle with [[TheTopicOfCancer pancreatic cancer]] just over two weeks after his seventieth birthday. Screenwriter Dennis Osborne, who helped care for him in his final months, was quoted as calling it "very peaceful. It was just as he wanted it. [[GoOutWithASmile It was exactly the way he planned]]." |
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| 17 | As a sidenote, while not openly out during his lifetime, [=McDowall=] was gay. |
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| 20 | !!Filmography on TV Tropes: |
| 21 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 22 | |
| 23 | [[folder:Film roles]] |
| 24 | * ''Film/HowGreenWasMyValley'' (1940) |
| 25 | * ''Film/ThePiedPiper'' (1942) |
| 26 | * ''Film/LassieComeHome'' (1943) |
| 27 | * ''Film/MidnightLace'' (1960) |
| 28 | * ''Film/TheLongestDay'' (1962) |
| 29 | * ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' (1963) |
| 30 | * ''Film/TheGreatestStoryEverTold'' (1965) |
| 31 | * ''Film/TheLovedOne'' (1965) |
| 32 | * ''Film/ThatDarnCat'' (1965) |
| 33 | * ''Film/InsideDaisyClover'' (1965) |
| 34 | * ''Film/LordLoveADuck'' (1966) |
| 35 | * ''Film/FiveCardStud'' (1968) |
| 36 | * ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' franchise |
| 37 | ** ''Film/{{Planet of the Apes|1968}}'' (1968) |
| 38 | ** ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes'' (1970) [[note]] Appears in stock footage only[[/note]] |
| 39 | ** ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes'' (1971) |
| 40 | ** ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' (1972) |
| 41 | ** ''Film/BattleForThePlanetOfTheApes'' (1973) |
| 42 | * ''Film/AngelAngelDownWeGo'' (1969) |
| 43 | * ''Film/HelloDownThere'' (1969) |
| 44 | * ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'' (1971) |
| 45 | * ''Film/PrettyMaidsAllInARow'' (1971) |
| 46 | * ''Film/TheLifeAndTimesOfJudgeRoyBean'' (1972) |
| 47 | * ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure'' (1972) |
| 48 | * ''Film/MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet'' (1973) |
| 49 | * ''Film/TheLegendOfHellHouse'' (1973) |
| 50 | * ''Film/CircleOfIron'' (1978) |
| 51 | * ''Film/{{Laserblast}}'' (1978) |
| 52 | * ''Film/TheBlackHole'' (1979) |
| 53 | * ''Film/{{Scavenger Hunt|1979}}'' (1979) |
| 54 | * ''Literature/EvilUnderTheSun'' (1982) |
| 55 | * ''Film/{{Alice in Wonderland|1985}}'' (1985) |
| 56 | * ''Film/{{Fright Night|1985}}'' (1985) |
| 57 | * ''Film/TheBigPicture'' (1989) |
| 58 | * ''Film/{{Shakma}}'' (1990) |
| 59 | [[/folder]] |
| 60 | |
| 61 | [[folder:Television roles]] |
| 62 | * ''Series/Batman1966'' |
| 63 | * ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow'' |
| 64 | * ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', episode "[[Recap/ColumboS01E06 Short Fuse]]" (1972) |
| 65 | * ''Series/TheFantasticJourney'' |
| 66 | * ''Series/FantasyIsland'' |
| 67 | * ''Film/HeartOfDarkness1958'' |
| 68 | * ''Series/KraftSuspenseTheatre'' |
| 69 | * ''Series/TheMagnificentMarbleMachine'' |
| 70 | * ''Series/MissionImpossible'' |
| 71 | * ''Series/NightGallery'' |
| 72 | * ''Series/PlanetOfTheApes'' |
| 73 | * ''Series/QuantumLeap'' |
| 74 | * ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey'' |
| 75 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' |
| 76 | [[/folder]] |
| 77 | |
| 78 | [[folder:Voice roles]] |
| 79 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' |
| 80 | * ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' |
| 81 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' |
| 82 | * ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' [[note]]The episode "Deadloch" where he voiced Dr. Hugh Trevor was his final role.[[/note]] |
| 83 | * ''WesternAnimation/MowglisBrothers'' |
| 84 | * ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' |
| 85 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater'' |
| 86 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing'' |
| 87 | * ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' |
| 88 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheWindInTheWillows1985'' |
| 89 | [[/folder]] |
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