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Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor on June 13 1943) is a British actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. McDowell's career has spanned five decades and includes notable roles in if...., A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange (film)

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 satire science fiction film film adaptation of a 1962 A Clockwork Orange, written by Anthony Burgess. The adaptation was produced, co-written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick....
, O Lucky Man!
O Lucky Man!

O Lucky Man! is a British comedy film, intended as an allegory on life in a capitalist society. Directed by Lindsay Anderson, it stars Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis films, whom McDowell had first played as a disaffected public schoolboy in his debut performance in Anderson's 1968 film if........
, Caligula
Caligula (film)

Caligula is a 1979 in film film directed by Tinto Brass, with additional scenes filmed by Giancarlo Lui and Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione....
, Star Trek Generations, Heroes
Heroes (TV series)

Heroes is an American science fiction dramatic programming created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. The series tells the stories of ordinary individuals from around the world who inexplicably develop Superpower , and their roles in preventing disasters, usually foreseen in images produced by precognitive painter...
, Metalocalypse
Metalocalypse

Metalocalypse is an United States animated television series on Adult Swim created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha that premiered in August 2006....
, and the 2007 horror remake of Halloween
Halloween (2007 film)

Halloween is a 2007 Cinema of the United States horror film written, directed, and produced by Rob Zombie. The film is a Remake/Remake#Reimagining of the 1978 horror Halloween ....
.

well was born in Horsforth
Horsforth

Horsforth is a suburb and civil parish within the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England.Horsforth was considered to have the largest village in England during the latter part of the nineteenth century....
, Leeds
Leeds

Leeds is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds....
, the son of Edna (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 McDowell), a hotelier, and Charles Taylor, a pub owner.






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Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor on June 13 1943) is a British actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. McDowell's career has spanned five decades and includes notable roles in if...., A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange (film)

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 satire science fiction film film adaptation of a 1962 A Clockwork Orange, written by Anthony Burgess. The adaptation was produced, co-written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick....
, O Lucky Man!
O Lucky Man!

O Lucky Man! is a British comedy film, intended as an allegory on life in a capitalist society. Directed by Lindsay Anderson, it stars Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis films, whom McDowell had first played as a disaffected public schoolboy in his debut performance in Anderson's 1968 film if........
, Caligula
Caligula (film)

Caligula is a 1979 in film film directed by Tinto Brass, with additional scenes filmed by Giancarlo Lui and Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione....
, Star Trek Generations, Heroes
Heroes (TV series)

Heroes is an American science fiction dramatic programming created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. The series tells the stories of ordinary individuals from around the world who inexplicably develop Superpower , and their roles in preventing disasters, usually foreseen in images produced by precognitive painter...
, Metalocalypse
Metalocalypse

Metalocalypse is an United States animated television series on Adult Swim created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha that premiered in August 2006....
, and the 2007 horror remake of Halloween
Halloween (2007 film)

Halloween is a 2007 Cinema of the United States horror film written, directed, and produced by Rob Zombie. The film is a Remake/Remake#Reimagining of the 1978 horror Halloween ....
.

Early life

McDowell was born in Horsforth
Horsforth

Horsforth is a suburb and civil parish within the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England.Horsforth was considered to have the largest village in England during the latter part of the nineteenth century....
, Leeds
Leeds

Leeds is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds....
, the son of Edna (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 McDowell), a hotelier, and Charles Taylor, a pub owner. However, six weeks after McDowell was born, his family relocated to the east coast of Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
 because his father was part of the Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force is the United Kingdom's air force, the oldest independent air force in the world. Formed on 1 April 1918, the RAF has taken a significant role in British military history ever since, playing a large part in World War II and in more recent conflicts....
.

Career

McDowell began his professional life serving drinks in his parents' pub and then as a coffee
Coffee

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted seeds, commonly called coffee beans, of the Coffea. Caffeinated coffee has a stimulating effect in humans....
 salesman (the latter job providing inspiration for the movie O Lucky Man!
O Lucky Man!

O Lucky Man! is a British comedy film, intended as an allegory on life in a capitalist society. Directed by Lindsay Anderson, it stars Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis films, whom McDowell had first played as a disaffected public schoolboy in his debut performance in Anderson's 1968 film if........
). While enrolled in Cannock House School, he began taking acting classes, and eventually secured work as an extra with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
. McDowell made his screen debut as school rebel Mick Travis in If.... (1968) by British director Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Gordon Anderson was an Indian-born England feature film, theatre and documentary film director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave....
. This was followed by Figures in a Landscape
Figures in a Landscape (film)

Figures in a Landscape is a 1970 British film directed by Joseph Losey.It is based on the 1968 Figures in a Landscape by Barry England....
 (1970) and The Raging Moon (1971). His performance in if.... caught the attention of Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
, who cast McDowell as the lead in A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange (film)

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 satire science fiction film film adaptation of a 1962 A Clockwork Orange, written by Anthony Burgess. The adaptation was produced, co-written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick....
. He won great acclaim (nominated for Best Actor by the New York Film Critics Circle) for his role as Alex, a young hooligan brainwashed
Brainwashing

Brainwashing consists of any effort aimed at instilling certain attitudes and beliefs in a person ? beliefs sometimes unwelcome or in conflict with the person's prior beliefs and knowledge, in order to affect that individual's value system and subsequent thought-patterns and behaviors....
 by a futuristic British government.

McDowell rejoined Anderson for O Lucky Man!
O Lucky Man!

O Lucky Man! is a British comedy film, intended as an allegory on life in a capitalist society. Directed by Lindsay Anderson, it stars Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis films, whom McDowell had first played as a disaffected public schoolboy in his debut performance in Anderson's 1968 film if........
 (1973), which was based on an idea he had, and Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital

Britannia Hospital is a 1982 in film feature film by United Kingdom film director Lindsay Anderson. A black comedy, it targets the National Health Service, and by extension, modern UK....
 (1982), and starred in Aces High
Aces High (film)

Aces High is a 1976 UK war film directed by Jack Gold and starring Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer and Simon Ward. The Screenplay was written by Howard Barker....
 (1975). McDowell regularly turned up on British television productions in the early 1970s in adaptations of theatre classics, one example being opposite Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....
 in The Collection
The Collection

The Collection may refer to:*The Collection by Harold Pinter*The Collection *The Collection *The Collection *The Collection *The Collection ...
 (1976), as part of the series Laurence Olivier Presents
Laurence Olivier Presents

Laurence Olivier Presents was a United Kingdom television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978.The plays, with the exception of Hindle Wakes, all starred Laurence Olivier....
. He co-starred in Voyage of the Damned
Voyage of the Damned

Voyage of the Damned is the title of a 1976 in film film drama and of its 1974 in literature source book, written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts....
 (1976), and as Dornford Yates
Dornford Yates

Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the United Kingdom novelist, Cecil William Mercer .His novels and short stories, some humorous and some thrillers were best-sellers in the period between the two World Wars....
' gentleman hero Richard Chandos in She Fell Among Thieves (1977). He made his Hollywood debut as H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells , known by his pen name H. G. Wells, was an England author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction"....
 in Time After Time
Time After Time (1979 film)

Time After Time is a 1979 in film United States feature film produced by Orion Pictures, starring Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner , and Charles Cioffi....
 (1979).

McDowell mainly portrayed antagonists in the late 1970s and 1980s — none more notorious than the title character
Caligula

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , more commonly known by his nickname Caligula , was the third Roman Emperor, reigning from 16 March 37 until his assassination on 24 January 41....
 in the controversial Caligula
Caligula (film)

Caligula is a 1979 in film film directed by Tinto Brass, with additional scenes filmed by Giancarlo Lui and Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione....
 (1979). He later remarked upon his career playing film villains: "I suppose I'm primarily known for that but in fact, that would only be half of my career if I was to top it all up". He also appeared in the 1983 action film Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder is a 1983 in film feature film that features a high-tech helicopter of the same name. The movie was directed by John Badham and stars Roy Scheider....
 as F.E. Cochrane, and the 1982 remake of Cat People
Cat People (1982 film)

Cat People is a 1982 in film horror film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, and John Heard . The film co-stars Annette O'Toole, Ruby Dee, and features small parts for Ed Begley, Jr....
. In 1983, he starred in Get Crazy
Get Crazy

Get Crazy is a 1983 in film directed by Allan Arkush and starring Malcolm McDowell, Allen Garfield, Daniel Stern , and Ed Begley, Jr.....
 as Reggie Wanker, a parody
Parody

A parody , in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, or author, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation....
 of Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
. Also in 1983, McDowell starred as The Wolf (Reginald von Lupen) in Faerie Tale Theatre
Faerie Tale Theatre

Faerie Tale Theatre, fully Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, is a live action children's television series retelling popular fairy tales....
s rendition of "Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood is a famous fairy tale about a young girl's encounter with a wolf. The story has changed considerably in its history, and been subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings....
" (his wife at that time, Mary, played Little Red Riding Hood). In 1984, he narrated the documentary The Compleat Beatles
The Compleat Beatles

The Compleat Beatles, released in 1984, is a two-hour documentary, chronicling the career of the "The Beatles". Though it has since been supplanted by the longer and more in-depth documentary The Beatles Anthology , The Compleat Beatles was for many years largely regarded as the definitive source of information on the Beatles....
.

McDowell is well known in Star Trek
Star Trek

Star Trek is an American Science fiction on television entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series, in addition to ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May 8,...
 circles as "the man who killed Captain Kirk
James T. Kirk

James Tiberius Kirk is a character in the fictional Star Trek media franchise. First portrayed by William Shatner as the principal protagonist in the Star Trek: The Original Series, Kirk also appears in the Star Trek: The Animated Series, the first seven Star Trek movies, and in numerous books, comics, and video games....
" in the 1994 film Star Trek Generations, in which he played the mad scientist Dr. Tolian Soran (Incidentally, he shares the distinction of playing one of Kirk's nemeses with Ricardo Montalban
Ricardo Montalbán

Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalb?n y Merino was a Mexico-born United States radio, television, theatre and film actor. He had a career spanning seven decades and multiple notable roles....
, with whom he also shares the distinction of portraying Mr. Roarke in respective versions of Fantasy Island
Fantasy Island

Fantasy Island is the title of two separate but related United States fantasy television series, both originally airing on the American Broadcasting Company television network....
). McDowell has also appeared in several computer games, most notably as Admiral Tolwyn in the Wing Commander series of computer games. His appearance in Wing Commander III marked the series transition from 2D pre-rendered cutscenes to live-action cutscenes. He also voiced the Enclave president John Henry Eden in Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks

Bethesda Softworks, LLC, a ZeniMax Media Company, is a video game developer and video game publisher of video games. The company, whose parent company is ZeniMax Media, is based in Rockville, Maryland, in the United States....
' acclaimed 2008 title Fallout 3
Fallout 3

Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game released by Bethesda Game Studios, and is the third major game in the Fallout . The game was released in North America on October 28, 2008, in Europe and Australia on October 30, 2008, and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on October 31, 2008....
.

In 1995, McDowell co-stared with actress and artist Lori Petty
Lori Petty

Lori Lee Petty is an United States movie actor....
 in the action/sci-fi/comedy film Tank Girl
Tank Girl

Tank Girl is a British comic character written by Alan Martin and originally drawn by Jamie Hewlett, and is currently drawn by Rufus Dayglo, Ashley Wood, and Mike McMahon ....
. Here, he played the villain Dr. Kesslee, the evil director of the global Water and Power Company, whose main goal in the story was to control the planet's entire water supply on a future desert-like, post-apocolyptic Earth.

McDowell played himself in Robert Altman
Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
's The Player
The Player

The Player is a satire film directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own novel of the same name. It is the story of Griffin Mill , a Hollywood Movie studio executive who gets away with murdering a wannabe screenwriter who Mill believes is sending him death threats....
, in which he chastises protagonist Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins

Timothy Francis Robbins is an Academy Award winning United States actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer, Activism and musician. He is the longtime domestic partner of actress Susan Sarandon....
) for badmouthing him behind his back. He teamed up with Altman once again in 2003 for The Company as Mr. A. the fictional director of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. His character was based on real-life director Gerald Arpino
Gerald Arpino

Gerald Arpino was an American dancer and choreographer. He was the artistic director and co-founder of Joffrey Ballet....
.

In the 2003 film, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, he played a straight married man who rapes a young drug dealer to "teach him a lesson". Many regard it as his best and most potent performance to date. The film also starred Clive Owen
Clive Owen

Clive Owen is an Academy Award -nominated, and Golden Globe Award- and British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning England actor....
 as the victim's older brother. It has become something of a cult classic.

In 2006, McDowell portrayed radio mogul Jonas Slaughter on Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an United States television program set in New York City. Criminal Intent premiered on September 30 2001....
, In 2007, he portrayed the wealthy, conspiratorial villain Mr. Linderman during the first season of the NBC hit series Heroes
Heroes (TV series)

Heroes is an American science fiction dramatic programming created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. The series tells the stories of ordinary individuals from around the world who inexplicably develop Superpower , and their roles in preventing disasters, usually foreseen in images produced by precognitive painter...
, a role he reprised in the third season premiere. He has starred in Jerry Was a Man
Jerry Was a Man

"Jerry Was a Man" is a short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It is about an attempt by a genetically modified chimpanzee to achieve human rights....
, which has appeared as an episode of Masters of Science Fiction
Masters of Science Fiction

Masters of Science Fiction is an United States television anthology series by the same creators as Masters of Horror. The show debuted on American Broadcasting Company on August 4 2007 at 10PM for a run of four episodes....
, on ABC and Sky
Sky TV

Sky TV may refer to:*British Sky Broadcasting, a television network and media company in United Kingdom**Sky Digital , a brand name of the British Sky Broadcasting's digital satellite television and satellite radio service in UK and Republic of Ireland...
. He also portrayed Terrence McQuewick on Entourage
Entourage (TV series)

Entourage is an HBO original series created by Doug Ellin that chronicles the rise of Vincent Chase ? a young A-list movie star ? and his childhood friends from Queens, New York City as they navigate the unfamiliar terrain of Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, California....
 and Julian Hodge on Monk
Monk (TV series)

Monk is an Television in the United States comedy-drama Television program created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the main character....
.

In 2007, he appeared as Dr. Sam Loomis in Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie

Robert Bartleh Cummings , better known by his stage name, Rob Zombie, is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer....
's remake of the horror film
Horror film

Horror films are movies that strive to elicit responses of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their plots frequently involve themes of the supernatural....
 Halloween
Halloween (2007 film)

Halloween is a 2007 Cinema of the United States horror film written, directed, and produced by Rob Zombie. The film is a Remake/Remake#Reimagining of the 1978 horror Halloween ....
, as Desmond LaRochette in Robert Whitlow's The List
The List (film)

The List is an independent feature film that was released nationwide on DVD June 10 2008. It is based on the novel of the same name by author Robert Whitlow....
, and as Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 patriarch Enda Doyle in Red Roses and Petrol, to be released theatrically in early 2008. He also began a recurring role on the Adult Swim
Adult Swim

Adult Swim is an adult-oriented cable television network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network in the United States and broadcasting in countries such as Australia and Japan....
 cartoon Metalocalypse
Metalocalypse

Metalocalypse is an United States animated television series on Adult Swim created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha that premiered in August 2006....
 as Vater Orlaag and other characters.

In 2008, McDowell began a recurring role as Grandpa Fletcher on Phineas and Ferb
Phineas and Ferb

Phineas and Ferb is an Emmy-nominated Disney Channel Cartoon series that centers on two stepbrothers and their beyond-the-impossible adventures in their backyard during summer vacation....
.

Voice work


McDowell recently provided his voice for the "Dr. Calico" character in Disney's Bolt, and is currently filming the Canadian vampire comedy rock and roll movie Suck
Suck (film)

Suck is a 2009 in film comedy film starring, written and directed by Rob Stefaniuk. Stefaniuk stars alongside Canadian actress Jessica Par?, Malcolm McDowell and rock legends Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop....
 with director and actor Rob Stefaniuk
Rob Stefaniuk

Rob Stefaniuk is a Canada comedian, actor and writer, who has worked in numerous television shows and films as both guest actor and series regular....
. McDowell also provided his voice for the president of the United States, John Henry Eden, in Fallout 3
Fallout 3

Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game released by Bethesda Game Studios, and is the third major game in the Fallout . The game was released in North America on October 28, 2008, in Europe and Australia on October 30, 2008, and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on October 31, 2008....
.

Some of McDowell's other recent voice work has been as the Superman
Superman

Superman is a Character , a comic book superhero widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, and sold to DC Comics in 1938, the character first appeared in Action Comics Action Comics 1 and subseque...
 villain Metallo
Metallo

This article is about the superhero called Metallo. For the Belgian copper refinery sometimes abbreviated to Metallo, see here: Metallo-Chimique...
 in Superman: The Animated Series
Superman: The Animated Series

Superman: The Animated Series is the unofficial title of a Warner Bros.' United States List of animated television series that ran from 1996 to 2000....
, Mad Mod
Mad Mod

Mad Mod is a fictional character in the DC Comics. He was until recently an enemy of the superhero team, the Titans ....
 in the cartoon Teen Titans
Teen Titans (TV series)

Teen Titans is an United States List of animated television series created by Glen Murakami, developed by David Slack , and produced by Warner Bros....
, a character in, and the narrator of an episode of South Park
Pip (South Park episode)

"Pip", also known as "Great Expectations", is episode 62 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on November 29, 2000....
, known simply as "A British Person," and even as the voice of a Death Star
Death Star

The Death Star is a fictional moon-sized space station and superweapon appearing in the Star Wars movies and Star Wars Expanded Universe. In the films, the first Death Star is featured in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and a second Death Star is under construction in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi....
 commander in a Robot Chicken
Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken is an Emmy Award-winning United States stop motion list of animated television series created and Executive producer by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich....
 episode parodying Star Wars
Star Wars

Star Wars is an epic film space opera Media franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels....
. He is also a regular on the second season of the Adult Swim
Adult Swim

Adult Swim is an adult-oriented cable television network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network in the United States and broadcasting in countries such as Australia and Japan....
 cartoon Metalocalypse
Metalocalypse

Metalocalypse is an United States animated television series on Adult Swim created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha that premiered in August 2006....
.

In 2006 and 2007 he contributed spoken word to two Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
 tribute albums produced by Billy Sherwood
Billy Sherwood

William "Billy" Wyman Sherwood is a musician, record producer and engineer....
: Back Against The Wall
Back Against The Wall

Back Against the Wall is an album released in 2005 by Billy Sherwood in collaboration with a number of progressive rock artists as a tribute to Pink Floyd album The Wall....
, and Return to the Dark Side of the Moon
Return to the Dark Side of the Moon

Return to the Dark Side of the Moon is a tribute album organised by Billy Sherwood and released in 2006 on Purple Pyramid. It is a re-creation of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and a sequel to Sherwood's Back Against The Wall, itself a re-creation of Pink Floyd's The Wall....
.

Personal life

McDowell was married to actress Margot Bennett from 1975 to 1980. He then married actress Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

Mary Nell Steenburgen is an Academy Awards-winning United States actor....
, whom he had first met while filming Time After Time
Time After Time (1979 film)

Time After Time is a 1979 in film United States feature film produced by Orion Pictures, starring Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner , and Charles Cioffi....
 and they had two children together: Lily Amanda (born January 21 1981), and Charles Malcolm (born July 10 1983), before divorcing in 1990. In 1991, McDowell married Kelley Kuhr, with whom he has three children: Beckett Taylor McDowell (born January 29 2004), Finian Anderson McDowell (born December 23 2006) and Seamus Hudson McDowell (born January 7 2009) . He currently resides in Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the only such section on the west coast, between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the sea, and having a Mediterranean climate, it is called California's "South Coast", and is also sometimes referred to...
, California. He is the maternal uncle of actor Alexander Siddig
Alexander Siddig

Siddig Et Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi is a Sudanese-born England actor, also known as Siddig El Fadil and Alexander Siddig....
, who appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television program that premiered in 1993 and ran for seven seasons, ending in 1999. Rooted in Gene Roddenberry?s Star Trek universe, it was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, at the request of Brandon Tartikoff, and produced by CBS Paramount Television....
, Kingdom of Heaven
Kingdom of Heaven (film)

Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 in film epic film, directed by Ridley Scott and written by William Monahan. It stars Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Marton Csokas, Brendan Gleeson, Alexander Siddig, Ghassan Massoud, Edward Norton, Jon Finch, Michael Sheen and Liam Neeson....
, Syriana
Syriana

Syriana is a 2005 in film Geopolitics thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, and executive produced by George Clooney, who also stars in the film with an ensemble cast....
 and 24
24 (TV series)

24 is an United States serial action drama television series. Broadcast by Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial 13 episodes ....
. He and his nephew both appeared in the movie Doomsday
Doomsday (film)

Doomsday is a 2008 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom science fiction film action film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future, where Scotland has been quarantined due to the onset of a deadly virus....
 by director Neil Marshall
Neil Marshall

Neil Marshall is a film director and screenwriter. Marshall began his career in editing and in 2002 directed his first feature film Dog Soldiers , which became a cult film....
.

McDowell was offered knighthood but turned it down, because he was too honoured.

Filmography

  • if.... (1969)
  • Figures in a Landscape
    Figures in a Landscape (film)

    Figures in a Landscape is a 1970 British film directed by Joseph Losey.It is based on the 1968 Figures in a Landscape by Barry England....
     (1970)
  • The Raging Moon
    The Raging Moon

    The Raging Moon is the name of a British film from 1971 in film based on the book by Peter Marshall and starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman....
     (1971)
  • A Clockwork Orange
    A Clockwork Orange (film)

    A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 satire science fiction film film adaptation of a 1962 A Clockwork Orange, written by Anthony Burgess. The adaptation was produced, co-written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick....
     (1971)
  • O Lucky Man!
    O Lucky Man!

    O Lucky Man! is a British comedy film, intended as an allegory on life in a capitalist society. Directed by Lindsay Anderson, it stars Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis films, whom McDowell had first played as a disaffected public schoolboy in his debut performance in Anderson's 1968 film if........
    - also writer (1973)
  • Royal Flash
    Royal Flash (film)

    Royal Flash is a 1975 film based on George MacDonald Fraser's second Harry Paget Flashman novel, Royal Flash. It starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman....
     (1975)
  • Voyage of the Damned
    Voyage of the Damned

    Voyage of the Damned is the title of a 1976 in film film drama and of its 1974 in literature source book, written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts....
     (1976)
  • Aces High
    Aces High (film)

    Aces High is a 1976 UK war film directed by Jack Gold and starring Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer and Simon Ward. The Screenplay was written by Howard Barker....
     (1976)
  • Caligula
    Caligula (film)

    Caligula is a 1979 in film film directed by Tinto Brass, with additional scenes filmed by Giancarlo Lui and Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione....
     (1979)
  • The Passage
    The Passage (film)

    The Passage is a 1979 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom action film-war film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Christopher Lee and Malcolm McDowell....
     (1979)
  • Time After Time
    Time After Time (1979 film)

    Time After Time is a 1979 in film United States feature film produced by Orion Pictures, starring Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner , and Charles Cioffi....
     (1979)
  • Look Back in Anger
    Look Back in Anger (1980 film)

    Look Back in Anger is a 1980 in film United Kingdom film starring Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Banes and Fran Brill, and directed by Lindsay Anderson and David Jones ....
     (1980)
  • Faerie Tale Theatre
    Faerie Tale Theatre

    Faerie Tale Theatre, fully Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, is a live action children's television series retelling popular fairy tales....
     (1982)
  • Britannia Hospital
    Britannia Hospital

    Britannia Hospital is a 1982 in film feature film by United Kingdom film director Lindsay Anderson. A black comedy, it targets the National Health Service, and by extension, modern UK....
     (1982)
  • Cat People
    Cat People (1982 film)

    Cat People is a 1982 in film horror film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, and John Heard . The film co-stars Annette O'Toole, Ruby Dee, and features small parts for Ed Begley, Jr....
     (1982)
  • Blue Thunder
    Blue Thunder

    Blue Thunder is a 1983 in film feature film that features a high-tech helicopter of the same name. The movie was directed by John Badham and stars Roy Scheider....
     (1983)
  • Cross Creek
    Cross Creek (film)

    Cross Creek is a 1983 in film film starring Mary Steenburgen as The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It received four Academy Awards nominations, for its Costume Design, Music, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress ....
     (1983)
  • Faerie Tale Theatre's Little Red Riding Hood (1983)
  • Get Crazy
    Get Crazy

    Get Crazy is a 1983 in film directed by Allan Arkush and starring Malcolm McDowell, Allen Garfield, Daniel Stern , and Ed Begley, Jr.....
     (1983)
  • The Compleat Beatles
    The Compleat Beatles

    The Compleat Beatles, released in 1984, is a two-hour documentary, chronicling the career of the "The Beatles". Though it has since been supplanted by the longer and more in-depth documentary The Beatles Anthology , The Compleat Beatles was for many years largely regarded as the definitive source of information on the Beatles....
     (1984)
  • Merlin and the Sword (TV) (1985)
  • The Caller
    The Caller

    The Caller is a 1987 in film Mystery film Thriller starring Malcolm McDowell and Madolyn Smith Osborne, distributed independently by Empire Pictures....
     (1987)
  • Sunset
    Sunset (film)

    Sunset is a 1988 in film Western film released by TriStar Pictures. Written and directed by Blake Edwards, the movie stars Bruce Willis as legendary Western film actor Tom Mix and James Garner as legendary lawman Wyatt Earp....
     (1988)
  • Mortacci (1989)
  • Maestro, II (1989)
  • Buy & Cell (1989)
  • Jezebel's Kiss (1990)
  • Schweitzer (1990)
  • Class of 1999
    Class of 1999

    Class of 1999 is a 1990 in film film by Mark L. Lester....
     (1990)
  • Moon 44
    Moon 44

    Moon 44 is a 1990 in film science fiction film, action film film from Centropolis Film Productions, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Michael Par? and Lisa Eichhorn....
     (1990)
  • Disturbed (1990)
  • The Assassin of the Tsar
    The Assassin of the Tsar

    The Assassin of the Tsar is a 1991 Russian film....
     (1991)
  • The Player
    The Player

    The Player is a satire film directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own novel of the same name. It is the story of Griffin Mill , a Hollywood Movie studio executive who gets away with murdering a wannabe screenwriter who Mill believes is sending him death threats....
     (1992)
  • Chain of Desire (1992)
  • Night Train to Venice
    Night Train to Venice

    Night Train to Venice is a contemporary Goth subculture film made in 1993 and directed by Carlo U. Quinterio.The plot involves young journalist Martin Gimmle who is traveling to Venice to drop off a copy of his book on European Neo-Nazism....
     (1993)
  • Bopha!
    Bopha!

    Bopha! is a 1993 in film drama film film directed by Morgan Freeman and starring Danny Glover. It was adapted from a 1986 Play by Percy Mtwa and was Freeman's directorial debut....
     (1993)
  • Cyborg 3: The Recycler
    Cyborg 3: The Recycler

    Cyborg 3: The Recycler is the 1994 in film direct-to-video sequel to Cyborg 2 starring Malcolm McDowell and Khrystyne Haje. Released on home video in 1994 in film, the film is directed by Michael Schroeder....
     (1994)
  • Star Trek Generations (1994)
  • In The Eye of the Snake (1994)
  • Dangerous Indescretion (1994)
  • Milk Money
    Milk Money

    Milk Money is a 1994 in film romantic comedy film about three suburban 11 year-old boys who find themselves behind in "the battle of the sexes," believe they would regain the upper hand if they could just see a real, live naked lady....
     (1994)
  • Tank Girl
    Tank Girl (film)

    Tank Girl is a 1995 in film film based on the Tank Girl comic book, created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett. It was directed by Rachel Talalay and stars Lori Petty as Rebecca Buck, aka the eponymous Tank Girl, who had originally appeared in the UK comic book, Deadline magazine....
     (1995)
  • Kids of The Round Table (1995)
  • Fist of the North Star (1995)
  • Our Friends in the North
    Our Friends in the North

    Our Friends in the North is a United Kingdom television drama Serial , produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in nine episodes on BBC Two in early 1996....
     (1996) (TV)
  • The Little Riders
    The Little Riders

    The Little Riders is a book by Margaretha Shemin, that was made into a television movie in 1996 in film which aired on the Disney Channel. It tells the story of Joanna Hunter, a young Dutch-American girl who goes to visit her grandparents in the Netherlands, when the Nazis occupy the village....
     (1996)
  • Superman: The Animated Series
    Superman: The Animated Series

    Superman: The Animated Series is the unofficial title of a Warner Bros.' United States List of animated television series that ran from 1996 to 2000....
     (TV) (1996-2000)
  • Asylum
    Asylum (1997 film)

    Asylum is a 1997 in film horror thriller film directed by James Seale and starring Robert Patrick, Malcolm McDowell, Sarah Douglas, Debra Wilson, Henry Gibson, and Jason Schombing....
     (1997)
  • 2103: The Deadly Wake (1997)
  • Mr. Magoo
    Mr. Magoo (film)

    Mr. Magoo is a 1997 in film live-action comedy film based on the Mr. Magoo. This film was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and originally released to movie theaters in 1997....
     (1997)
  • Lexx
    LEXX

    Lexx is a science fantasy television series that follows the adventures of a group of mismatched individuals aboard the organic space craft Lexx....
    , Episode Giga Shadow     (1997)
  • Fantasy Island
    Fantasy Island

    Fantasy Island is the title of two separate but related United States fantasy television series, both originally airing on the American Broadcasting Company television network....
     (TV) (1998)
  • The Gardener (1998) (Also known as Garden of Evil and as Silent Screams)
  • Gangster No. 1
    Gangster No. 1

    Gangster No. 1 is a Cinema of the United Kingdom crime film released in British films of 2000. It stars Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis and Paul Bettany and was directed by Paul McGuigan ....
     (2000)
  • St. Patrick: The Irish Legend (2000)
  • South Park
    South Park

    South Park is an United Statesn animation situation comedy, notorious for its toilet humour, surrealism, and often black comedy, which satirizes Subject matter in South Park including religion, politics, violence, abuse, sexuality, and mental disorder....
     (TV) (2000)
  • The Barber
    The Barber

    The Barber is a 2001 in film film that examines the interaction between the mind of a antisocial personality disorder and the minds of ordinary people who are fascinated by them....
     (2001) (Also known as Le Barbier)
  • Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
    Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

    Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures is a 2001 Documentary film about the life and work of Stanley Kubrick, famed film director, made by his long-time assistant Jan Harlan....
     (2001)
  • Just Visiting (2001)
  • Princess of Thieves
    Princess of Thieves

    Princess of Thieves is a romantic action-adventure TV movie produced by Walt Disney Productions in 2001 and first broadcast on American Broadcasting Company in the United States that same year....
     (2001)
  • Tempo (2002)
  • I Spy
    I Spy (film)

    I Spy is a 2002 in film American spy film comedy film starring Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson. The film was based upon the I Spy that aired in the 1960s which starred Robert Culp and Bill Cosby....
     (2002)
  • Between Strangers (2002)
  • Shadow Realm (2002) (TV)
  • The Company (2003)
  • Inhabited (2003)
  • I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)
  • Chalkzone
    ChalkZone

    ChalkZone is an American animated television series that aired on Nickelodeon. It was created by Bill Burnett and Larry Huber, and produced by Frederator Studios for the Nickelodeon TV channel ....
     (2003)
  • Hidalgo
    Hidalgo (film)

    Hidalgo is a 2004 in film based on the life and tales of former horse rider Frank Hopkins and his endurance horse Hidalgo, a Mustang . The movie was written by John Fusco and directed by Joe Johnston....
     (2003)
  • Evilenko
    Evilenko

    Evilenko is a 2004 Italy film very loosely based on the Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. The story is a fictionalisation of the serial killer's life; large segments of the movie were adapted from a novel entitled The Communist Who Ate Children....
     (2004)
  • In Good Company
    In Good Company

    In Good Company is a 2004 in film comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Weitz , the co-director of About a Boy . The film stars Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Marg Helgenberger, Clark Gregg, Selma Blair, and David Paymer....
     (2004)
  • Bobby Jones: A Stroke of Genius
    Bobby Jones: A Stroke of Genius

    Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is a motion picture based on the life, specifically the golfing career, of Bobby Jones , the first player in the sport to ever consecutively win all four of the men's major golf championships ....
     (2004)
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (TV) (2005)
  • Spooks
    Spooks

    Spooks is a British Academy Television Awards award-winning British television drama series produced by the independent production company Kudos for BBC One....
     (TV) (2006)
  • The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
    The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

    The Curse of King Tut?s Tomb is a 2006 in film television movie, directed by Russell Mulcahy, that premiered on Hallmark Channel on May 27, 2006....
     (2006)
  • Entourage
    Entourage (TV series)

    Entourage is an HBO original series created by Doug Ellin that chronicles the rise of Vincent Chase ? a young A-list movie star ? and his childhood friends from Queens, New York City as they navigate the unfamiliar terrain of Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, California....
     (2006)
  • The List (2007)
  • Exitz (2007)
  • Halloween
    Halloween (2007 film)

    Halloween is a 2007 Cinema of the United States horror film written, directed, and produced by Rob Zombie. The film is a Remake/Remake#Reimagining of the 1978 horror Halloween ....
     (2007)
  • Heroes
    Heroes (TV series)

    Heroes is an American science fiction dramatic programming created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. The series tells the stories of ordinary individuals from around the world who inexplicably develop Superpower , and their roles in preventing disasters, usually foreseen in images produced by precognitive painter...
     (TV) (2007, 2008)
  • War and Peace
    War and Peace (disambiguation)

    War and Peace can refer to:...
     (2007)
  • Metalocalypse
    Metalocalypse

    Metalocalypse is an United States animated television series on Adult Swim created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha that premiered in August 2006....
     (TV) (2007)
  • Coco Chanel
    Coco Chanel (film)

    Coco Chanel is a television film directed by Christian Duguay and written by Ron Hutchinson, Enrico Medioli and Lea Tafuri. It stars Shirley MacLaine as Coco Chanel, the pioneering French people fashion designer....
     (2008)
  • Red Roses and Petrol (2008)
  • Doomsday
    Doomsday (film)

    Doomsday is a 2008 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom science fiction film action film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future, where Scotland has been quarantined due to the onset of a deadly virus....
     (2008)
  • Delgo
    Delgo (film)

    Delgo is a 2008 in film Computer-generated imagery fantasy film. The film was produced by Fathom Studios, a division of Macquarium Intelligent Communications, which began the project in 1999....
     (voice) (2008)
  • Phineas and Ferb
    Phineas and Ferb

    Phineas and Ferb is an Emmy-nominated Disney Channel Cartoon series that centers on two stepbrothers and their beyond-the-impossible adventures in their backyard during summer vacation....
     (TV) (2008)
  • Fallout 3
    Fallout 3

    Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game released by Bethesda Game Studios, and is the third major game in the Fallout . The game was released in North America on October 28, 2008, in Europe and Australia on October 30, 2008, and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on October 31, 2008....
     (2008) (VG) (voice)
  • Bolt (voice) (2008)
  • Suck
    Suck (film)

    Suck is a 2009 in film comedy film starring, written and directed by Rob Stefaniuk. Stefaniuk stars alongside Canadian actress Jessica Par?, Malcolm McDowell and rock legends Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop....
     (2009)
  • Red Alert 3: Uprising (2009) (VG)
  • H2: Halloween 2 (2009)


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    The Times

    The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International....
    , 17 May 2008
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