Roddy mcdowell gay

He represented gay Hollywood better than most. Everyone suspected Roddy was gay from the time he was a kid actor. In watching him one might say well, if he's not queer , then he must be English. As it turns out, he was both. He never hid his gayness from his profession, never made up stories about himself but neither did he make a universal announcement... not assist in those days. He just was. Few actors, same-sex attracted or not, were ever as widespread with the acting community as Roddy McDowall.

I occasionally drove by his dwelling in Studio Metropolis, California, hoping to see him or the many friends who came and went most days and most hours unless he was working. He was the host with the most at his frequent parties, many of them elaborate affairs, some just having 8-10 people over for brunch and a swim. He did, of course, own his all-male soirees but more were probably mixed.

He was like the father confessor to his many friends and he took most of the secrets to his grave. He was acknowledged for being very discreet except, perhaps if it emotionally attached his closest female friends, Maureen O'Hara and Elizabeth Taylor. It seems he told them

"[Acting is] the only profession where the accumulation of reputation and excellence doesn't really mean very much next Monday morning. It's prefer being a fruit picker; it's seasonal."

"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 Antique 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 How Grassy Was My Valley. He treated it with the alike professionalism, and he grew to adore [his character] Snowball."

— Maurice LaMarche, when asked what it was like active with McDowall on the animated series Pinky and the Brain

Roderick Andre Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998), known professionally as Roddy McDowall, was an English-American performer, film director, and photographer.

He started acting when he was ten years vintage during The Golden Age of Hollywood, gaining prominence for his roles in such films as How Green Was My Valley, Lassie Come Ho

Roddy McDowallborn 17 September 1928 (d. 1998)

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowallwas born in London on to a Scottish father and an Irish mother. His mother, who had herself aspired to be an actress, enrolled him in elocution lessons at the age of five; and at the age of ten he had his first major film role as the youngest son in Murder in the Family(1938). Over the next two years he appeared in a dozen British films, in parts large and small.

McDowall's movie career was interrupted, however, by the German bombardment of London in World War II. Accompanied by his sister and his mother, he was one of many London children evacuated to places abroad.

As a outcome, he arrived in Hollywood in 1940, and the charming young English lad soon landed a major role as the youngest son in How Leafy Was My Valley (1941). The film made him a star at thirteen, and he appeared as an endearing boy in numerous Hollywood movies throughout the war years, most notably Lassie, Come Home(1943), with fellow English toddler star and lifelong comrade Elizabeth Taylor, and My Friend Flicka(1943).

By his overdue teens, McDowall had outgrown the parts in which he had been most successful. Accordi

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Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall (September 17, 1928 – October 3, 1998) was an English-American performer, voice artist, film director and photographer. He is best famous for portraying Cornelius and Caesar in the original Planet of the Apes film series, as well as Galen in the spin-off television series. He began his acting career as a child in England, and then in the United States, in How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Friend Flicka (1943) and Lassie Come Home (1943).
As an adult, McDowall appeared most frequently as a traits actor on radio, stage, motion picture, and television. For portraying Augustus in the historical drama Cleopatra (1963), he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Other titles include The Longest Day (1962), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), That Darn Cat! (1965), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), The Poseid