Roddy McDowall films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 16 films on Boxlist

Known for Planet of the Apes, How Green Was My Valley and The Big Country.

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Starring Roddy McDowall

Planet of the Apes
1968 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the...
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How Green Was My Valley
1941 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
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The Big Country
1958 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate...
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A Bug's Life
1998 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.
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The Longest Day
1962 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers...
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That Darn Cat!
1965 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wrist watch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.
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The Poseidon Adventure
1972 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
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.
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Cleopatra
1963 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster (Eglantine Price). The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.
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Overboard
1987 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
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...
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1972 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
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.
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The Black Hole
1979 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
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...
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Fright Night Part 2
1988 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
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...
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission discovers a planet ruled by apes, and an underground city run by telepathic humans.
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Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
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...
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