Overboard (1987)
Comedy | Romance
A cruel but beautiful heiress mocks and cheats a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her that they're husband and wife.
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond, Mike Hagerty, Roddy McDowall
Director: Garry Marshall
Mean Johnny Barrows (1976)
Action | Crime | Drama
Discharged from the army, an ex-GI is hired as a hit-man by a crime syndicate that is at war with another Mafia family.
Starring: Fred Williamson, Roddy McDowall, Stuart Whitman, Anthony Caruso, Luther Adler, R.G. Armstrong, Elliott Gould, Leon Isaac Kennedy
Director: Fred Williamson
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance | Western
A young man from Boston heads west to join the California gold rush with the hopes of restoring his family fortune, but his dedicated butler sets out to find him and bring him home.
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden, Harry Guardino, Richard Haydn, Hermione Baddeley
Director: James Neilson
The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
Comedy | Sci-Fi
A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that has special powers, including the ability to allow the cat to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and needs the help of a man named Frank in order to reclaim and repair his ship to get back home.
Starring: Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall, Hans Conried, Jesse White, Alan Young, James Hampton
Director: Norman Tokar
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
A passenger ship, on her way to the scrap yard is pushed to her limits by the new owners to save on the dismantling fees. A tidal wave hits her, flipping her over so that all the internal rooms are upside down. A priest takes a mixed band of survivors on a journey through the bowels of the ship in an attempt to survive.
Starring: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens
Director: Ronald Neame, Irwin Allen
Man Hunt / Rogue Male (1941)
Drama | Thriller
British hunter 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 German agents and aided by a young woman.
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, Ludwig Stössel
Director: Fritz Lang
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Horror | Mystery
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/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.
Starring: Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Gayle Hunnicutt, Clive Revill, Roland Culver, Peter Bowles
Director: John Hough
Evil Under the Sun / Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Hercule Poirot travels to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi…
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin, Nicholas Clay, Maggie Smith, Roddy McDowall
Director: Guy Hamilton
Fright Night Part 2 / Fright Night Part II (1988)
Comedy | Horror
Three years after killing the vampire in the original, Charlie has started to believe it was all his imagination and starts to forget that vampires truly exist – until four strangers lead by Regina, a noted actress, arrives at Peter Vincent's house and starts to have an unhealthy interest in Charlie, Peter and Charlie's new girlfriend Alex. It becomes clear that Regina is Jerry's (the vampire in the original film) sister and she is determined to get revenge on the friends and plans to turn Charlie into a vampire – so that he can face his punishment for all eternity.
Starring: William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall, Traci Lind, Julie Carmen, Jon Gries
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
Macbeth (1948)
Drama | History | War
In fog-dripping, barren and sometimes macabre settings, 11th-century Scottish nobleman Macbeth is led by an evil prophecy and his ruthless yet desirable wife to the treasonous act that makes him king.
Starring: Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy McDowall, Alan Napier, Edgar Barrier
Director: Orson Welles
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Drama | Family
Sixty year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of the closely knit Morgan's, and his devoted parents, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall, John Loder
Narrator: Irving Pichel
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
In the year 2670, an orangutan called the Lawgiver tells a story to a group of human and ape children about an early 21st century ape leader named Caesar.
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, John Huston
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Action | Sci-Fi
1991. North America is a police state in which cats and dogs have been wiped out by a virus brought back from space by astronauts. Apes are imported from Africa and auctioned off as household pets and trained to perform menial tasks. A circus owner named Armando arrives in the city with a grown ape named Caesar. Eighteen years earlier, Armando had hidden the baby Caesar, whose parents were intelligent articulate apes who had traveled back from the 22nd century and were killed in an attempt to prevent future ape domination.
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, Natalie Trundy, Hari Rhodes
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Escape From the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Fleeing the nuclear destruction of Earth in the year 3955, chimp scientist Zira, her husband Cornelius, and their friend Doctor Milo launch a spacecraft and journey through a bend in time back to the year 1973.
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy, Eric Braeden, William Windom
Director: Don Taylor
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
Three astronouts after a crash landing find themselves stranded in an upside-down planet–a place where talking apes are in charge and mute humans are hunted and enslaved by the tyrannical primates.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Musical
An apprentice witch, 3 kids and a cynical conman search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defence of Britain.
Starring: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, Bob Holt, Dal McKennon
Director: Robert Stevenson
Fright Night (1985)
Comedy | Horror | Thriller
For young Charlie Brewster, nothing could be better than an old horror movie late at night. Two men move in next door, and for Charlie with his horror movie experience, there can be no doubt that their strange behavior is explained by the fact that they are a vampire and his undead day guardian. The only one who can help him hunt them down is a washed-up actor, Peter Vincent, who hosts Charlie's favorite TV show, Fright Night. Vincent doesn't really believe that vampires exist, but does it for the money…
Starring: Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall, Amanda Bearse, William Ragsdale, Stephen Geoffreys
Director: Tom Holland
