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Malcolm McDowell
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Height
5' 10"
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Spouse
'Kelley Kuhr' (1991 - present)
Mary Steenburgen (1980 - 1990) (divorced)
Margot Bennett (I) (1975 - 1980) (divorced)
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Best known as the rebellious protagonist of Lindsay Anderson's trilogy of films indicting British traditions and institutions, McDowell was a popular actor during the 1970s, and continues to work in showy character roles. He began his professional life serving drinks in a pub; acting classes offered relief from his working-class existence, and eventually he secured work as an extra with the Royal Shakespeare Company. McDowell made his screen debut in Poor Cow (1967). Two years later, Anderson'sEB> (1969) cast him as a sensitive boy hiding behind cocksure arrogance. His performance caught the attention of Stanley Kubrick, who cast McDowell as the lead in A Clockwork Orange (1971). Unfortunately, despite winning great acclaim for his role as the urbane leader of a gang of futuristic toughs, the film may have done for McDowell what Hitchcock'sPsycho did for Anthony Perkins: create a characterization so indelible that the public had a hard time separating actor from character. Fortunately, good parts did come his way, both on stage and screen. He rejoined Lindsay Anderson for the ambitious O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982), and starred in Royal Flash (1975). He costarred in Voyage of the Damned (1976), and made an auspicious Hollywood-movie debut as a charming H. G. Wells in Time After Time (1979). That popular movie also introduced him to Mary Steenburgen, whom he subsequently married; they divorced some years later. (They costarred in a 1987 London stage revival of "Holiday" directed by Lindsay Anderson, and McDowell played a small part, as famed editor Maxwell Perkins, in her 1983 movie Cross Creek)
For some reason, McDowell drifted into villainous parts in the 1980s-none more notorious than the title character in Caligula (1980)-and has seldom been able to break out of that mold since then, appearing in too many low-budget timewasters, though he did have a good time spoofing Mick Jagger in the rock comedy Get Crazy (1983), and had a telling cameo in Robert Altman's The Player (1992). |  |
