Malcolm McDowell was born on Malcolm John Taylor; 13 June 1943 and is an English actor, producer, and television presenter.
52 Facts About Malcolm McDowell
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Malcolm McDowell is known for portraying Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange and for playing Mick Travis in a trilogy of films directed by Lindsay Anderson.
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Malcolm McDowell was born in the Horsforth suburb of Leeds and raised in Liverpool.
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Malcolm McDowell later trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before embarking on an acting career that has spanned over 50 years.
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Malcolm McDowell is known for playing the title character in Caligula, and Mick Travis in the trilogy of if.
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Malcolm McDowell has appeared in films such as Time After Time, Cat People, Blue Thunder, Star Trek Generations, Tank Girl, Gangster No 1, Easy A, The Artist and Bombshell.
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Malcolm McDowell appeared as Dr Samuel Loomis in the 2007 remake Halloween and its 2009 sequel, Halloween II.
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Malcolm McDowell currently plays Patrick "Pop" Critch in the Newfoundland-based Canadian TV series "Son of a Critch".
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Malcolm McDowell is a voice actor, having voiced Metallo on Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited, Vater Orlaag in Metalocalypse, Dr Calico in Bolt, President Eden in Fallout 3, Molag Bal in The Elder Scrolls Online, and Dr Monty in Call of Duty: Black Ops III Malcolm McDowell received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012.
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Malcolm McDowell has an older sister named Gloria and a younger sister named Judy.
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Gloria later had a son, actor Alexander Siddig, alongside whom McDowell would appear in the film Doomsday.
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The family moved to Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, where Malcolm McDowell's father was stationed at the nearby RAF Carnaby.
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Malcolm McDowell began taking acting classes while in school, later moving to London in order to train as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
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Malcolm McDowell initially secured work as an extra with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Malcolm McDowell made his film debut as school rebel Mick Travis in if.
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Malcolm McDowell gained massive acclaim for his performance as Alex DeLarge, a young sadist who undergoes brainwashing by the British government in a near future society.
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Malcolm McDowell was nominated for a Golden Globe, a National Society of Film Critics Award, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award as Best Actor.
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Malcolm McDowell regularly appeared on British television productions in the 1970s in adaptations of theatre classics, one example being with Laurence Olivier in The Collection, as part of the series Laurence Olivier Presents.
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Malcolm McDowell starred in Aces High and co-starred in Voyage of the Damned, and as Dornford Yates' gentleman hero Richard Chandos in She Fell Among Thieves and the title character in Caligula.
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Malcolm McDowell made his Hollywood debut as H G Wells in Time After Time.
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Malcolm McDowell has often portrayed antagonists, later remarking on 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".
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Also in 1983, Malcolm McDowell starred as the Wolf in Faerie Tale Theatres rendition of "Little Red Riding Hood".
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Malcolm McDowell appeared in several computer games, most notably as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn in the Wing Commander series of computer games.
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Malcolm McDowell appeared in a 2000 episode of the animated series South Park, which was a comedic retelling of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations.
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Malcolm McDowell played himself in Robert Altman's The Player, in which he chastises protagonist Griffin Mill for badmouthing him behind his back.
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Malcolm McDowell's character was based on real-life director Gerald Arpino.
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Malcolm McDowell had a brief but memorable role as the psychopathic Gangster in the British crime film Gangster No 1.
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Malcolm McDowell starred in Jerry Was a Man, which appeared as an episode of Masters of Science Fiction on Sky.
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Malcolm McDowell portrayed Terrence McQuewick on Entourage, and he made a Special Guest Appearance as the icy fashion designer Julian Hodge in the Monk season 4 episode, "Mr Monk Goes to a Fashion Show".
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Never Apologize is a 2007 documentary film of Malcolm McDowell's one-man show about his experiences working with film director Lindsay Anderson.
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Malcolm McDowell appeared as Dr Samuel Loomis in Rob Zombie's remakes of Halloween and Halloween II.
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Malcolm McDowell played Desmond LaRochette in Robert Whitlow's The List, and Irish patriarch Enda Doyle in Red Roses and Petrol.
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Malcolm McDowell appears, uncredited, as the curator Lombardi, in the film The Book of Eli.
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Malcolm McDowell portrayed Satan in the Christian comedy thriller film Suing the Devil.
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In 2012, Malcolm McDowell appeared in the horror films Vamps and Silent Hill: Revelation.
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Malcolm McDowell portrayed Father Murder in the 2016 Rob Zombie film 31.
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Malcolm McDowell played Boogeyman in Abnormal Attraction co-starring Gilbert Gottfried, Bruce Davison, Tyler Mane and Leslie Easterbrook.
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Malcolm McDowell was the featured narrator in the documentary The Compleat Beatles, released in 1982.
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Malcolm McDowell voiced Lord Maliss in Happily Ever After, Zarm in the cartoon Captain Planet and the Planeteers, the Superman villain Metallo in Superman: The Animated Series, Mad Mod on Teen Titans, Merlyn in DC Showcase: Green Arrow, Arkady Duvall on Batman: The Animated Series and as the voice of a Death Star commander on a Robot Chicken episode parodying Star Wars.
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Malcolm McDowell is a regular on the second season of the Adult Swim cartoon Metalocalypse as Vater Orlaag and other characters.
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In 2008, Malcolm McDowell began a recurring role as Grandpa Fletcher on Phineas and Ferb.
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Malcolm McDowell narrated the award-winning documentary Blue Gold: World Water Wars.
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Malcolm McDowell reprised his role of Metallo in the video game Superman: Shadow of Apokolips and an episode of Justice League Unlimited.
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Malcolm McDowell provided his voice for the character President John Henry Eden in the video game Fallout 3, Rupert Pelham in the game WET, King Solomon in the Word of Promise Audio Bible, and the CEO of Stahl Arms in Killzone 3, Jorhan Stahl.
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Malcolm McDowell is the voice for the primary antagonist Molag Bal in the MMO The Elder Scrolls Online.
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Malcolm McDowell is the voice of Dr Monty in Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
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Malcolm McDowell is the host of Fangoria's Dreadtime Stories, a monthly series of radio dramas with a mystery, horror, science fiction and dark humour theme.
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Malcolm McDowell met actress and publicist Margot Bennett in March 1969, and they were married from April 1975 to September 1980.
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Malcolm McDowell met actress Mary Steenburgen in 1978 while filming Time After Time, and they married in September 1980.
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Malcolm McDowell married Kelley Kuhr, 24 years his junior, in 1991.
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Malcolm McDowell became a fan of Liverpool FC after moving to Liverpool as a child, spending much of his childhood at Anfield, and continues to support the team.
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On May 31,2021, Malcolm McDowell posted on Instagram that he had become an American citizen.