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AOLiveMC15: NikiPike asks: Is Roddy your brother, and if he is, what do you think of his career as an actor towards another actor?

McDowllM: Oh, we are not related in any way, shape or form. But I know Roddy rather well, and he's a wonderful actor and I think he's had a marvelous career. He's still working and he's been acting since he was child, so it must be more than 50 years! I do know that some people stop him in airports and congratulate him on his performance in Clockwork Orange. He just smiles sweetly and says, "Thank you very much."

Apes Star McDowall Dead At 70
Planet of the Apes star Roddy McDowall, a beloved actor in Hollywood since his debut as a child star in the 1930s, died at the age of 70 on Saturday, Oct. 3. McDowall had been diagnosed with cancer back in April but had kept his illness a secret until just a few weeks ago.

The British-born thespian was probably best known to SF fans for his role as Cornelius in the film Planet of the Apes. McDowall went on to appear in four of the five Apes movies as well as in the TV series, also playing the roles of Galen and Caesar.

In addition to Apes, McDowall had parts in numerous SF movies and TV shows, from Father Stone in The Martian Chronicles to the voice of the robot Vincent in The Black Hole. One of his last roles was voicing the character Mr. Soil for the upcoming film A Bug's Life. McDowall was also an acclaimed actor outside the SF genre, having earned a Tony Award for his work on the play The Fighting Cock and an Emmy Award for his part in the TV movie Not Without Honor.

In addition to his career as an actor, McDowall was a celebrity photographer whose first collection, Double Exposure, was published in 1966. Just days before McDowall's death, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it would be naming its photo archive after him.

Twiggy had a brief series of T.V. programmes shown in the afternoon, she was interviewing friends of hers such as Lauren Bacall, the lovely late lamented Roddy McDowell, Dustin Hoffman and of course our friend Tim. I didn't see much of the programmes as it was on the same time as I have to get my daughters from school.However one day, the girls were off school, I sat down with a cup of tea to see what was on T.V and the announcer said "after the break Twiggy and Tim Curry"........!!!!!!Well, panic stations!!I can never find a blank video tape when I want one, and Tim is going to be on T.V in about 2 1/2 minutes!!!Grabbed one of the children's tapes,switched on just in time.......sat back and ogled Tim for about 25 minutes and discovered that I had recorded the interview immediately after "Annie"!!!! Is that fate, or what?!!!

Sadly the commissioning T.V. company were less than helpful about providing the text of the interview or even selling it on video (I think it might have been Martha who also enquired),hence my 2 typing fingers are nearly worn to the bone in transcribing what was said during the programme!!LOL

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RAMBLING REPORTER
(Hollywood Reporter - Tues., Oct. 27, 1998)

Academy sings no sad songs for McDowall, and here's why /
Star felt memorial rites become 'photo ops for tabloids'

By Robert Osborne

NEW YORK -- The reason the Roddy McDowall memorial planned for Nov. 7 at the motion picture Academy has been canceled is a long story but basically boils down to this: Roddy didn't want any kind of big memorial service. Nor did he want a funeral because, as he told me himself not long before he died, "I've been to so many funerals and memorial services for other people and you know what they basically boil down to, luv. Just photo ops for the tabloids." He didn't want that for himself. The Nov. 7 affair grew out of a sincere desire by the Academy to honor their pal and stalwart supporter (and longtime member of the Academy's board of governors) but, on the advice of those looking after Roddy's estate, it was decided to wait and, at a later date, let his close friends gather to have a more private, personal celebration of their friend ... Roddy would be verrry pleased ... He would also be pleased at the way his good chum Carol Burnett whams over her role in "Putting It Together" at the Ahmanson in Los Angeles. One of Roddy's great wishes was to see Carol in the show at a preview performance but he ultimately opted not to once he'd been confined to a wheelchair, feeling his fragile condition might attract unwanted attention and, again, be subject to a "photo op"...

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Respecting McDowall's wish AMPAS cancels memorial per the late thesp's will

By VARIETY STAFF, October 30, 1998

Bowing to the wish of the late Roddy McDowall, who died Oct. 3, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has canceled a memorial gathering in his honor.

The Academy had planned to stage the event on Nov. 7 with an hourlong program in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Robert Rehme, the Academy's president, said many of the actor's friends had lobbied for the event and that the Academy acquiesced because McDowall was a board member of the Academy and president of the Academy Foundation (Daily Variety, Oct. 12).

What none of them knew at the time were the contents of McDowall's will, which specifically requested that no memorial service be held for him.

"In order to respect that, we decided to cancel," Academy spokeswoman Leslie Unger said.

In response to the cancellation, Guy McElwaine, a longtime friend of the actor, wrote to Daily Variety:

McDowall's "loyalty to the motion picture business that he spent his entire life working in was unwavering. It didn't matter if it was film preservation, working on his own talent, which was monumental, quietly loaning money to veteran and out-of-work artists, protecting and loving his friends in life and in death. But Roddy's driving ambition was to guarantee the continuation forever of the Motion Picture and Television Home.

"... His dream was that he could reach the young people of our business and get them excited and involved in the constant understanding of how important the home and the Motion Picture and Television Fund is to our entire community. There are a number of us who intend for Roddy's dream to come true.

"He was, in all ways, a prince."

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