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Roddy McDowall has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1980s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Planet of the Apes.
The Manhattan Project
1986
Science Fiction · Thriller
Fright Night
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%AMC+ · Included
Evil Under the Sun
1982 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Prime Video · Included
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Disney+ · Included
Overboard
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 28%Prime Video · Included
Class of 1984
1982 · Movie · Actor
Top 43%Prime Video · Included
That Darn Cat!
1965 · Movie · Actor
Top 49%Disney+ · Included
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.
Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner · With Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Stella Stevens
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.
Dir. Tom Holland · With Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.
Dir. Guy Hamilton · With Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Sylvia Miles
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 or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.
Dir. John Hough · With Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders
Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.
Dir. John Ford · With Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.
Dir. Robert Stevenson · With Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall
After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment block, the nightmare starts again - and this time it's personal!
Dir. Tommy Lee Wallace · With William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall, Traci Lind
Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get even.
Dir. Garry Marshall · With Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth commits a treasonous act and takes the throne for himself.
Dir. Orson Welles · With Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.
Dir. Mark L. Lester · With Perry King, Tim Van Patten, Roddy McDowall
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.
Dir. Fred M. Wilcox · With Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, May Whitty
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
Dir. Don Taylor · With Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman
A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.
Dir. Robert Stevenson · With Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
Dir. David Miller · With Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.
Dir. John Huston · With Paul Newman, Victoria Principal, Ned Beatty
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.
Dir. Arthur Penn · With Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubeš
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, and prepares for a revolt against humanity.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban
A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to reclaim and repair his ship and get back home.
Dir. Norman Tokar · With Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan
The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled by Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, but the initial wonderment and awe the Palomino crew feel for the ship and its resistance to the power of the black hole turn to horror as they uncover Reinhardt's plans.
Dir. Gary Nelson · With Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster
High school student Paula Carson's affections are being sought after by two of her classmates: Dwight, the "bad boy", and Brian, a disturbed young man who has just been released from a mental hospital where he was committed following the suspicious death of his father. Soon after being released, more murders start happening. Is Brian back to his old tricks, or is Dwight just trying to eliminate the competition?
Dir. Rospo Pallenberg · With Donovan Leitch, Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt
The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a community of human mutants who live beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. All leading to the finale.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Roddy McDowall, Natalie Trundy, Austin Stoker
as Samwise Gamgee (voice) · Voice
Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lord Sauron's forces in a final battle.
Dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. · With Orson Bean, Roddy McDowall, John Huston
Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes. Based on the 1968 Planet of the Apes film and its sequels, which were inspired by the novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle.
Dir. Anthony Wilson · With Roddy McDowall, Ron Harper, James Naughton
Happy go-lucky teen Billy Duncan discovers an otherworldly laser gun in the southern California desert, making him the target of a pair of aliens who had recently executed its previous owner.
Dir. Michael Rae · With Kim Milford, Cheryl Smith, Gianni Russo
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