Roddy's Rose Garden at the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) website (The MPTF created and owns the rose garden image; special thanks to webmaster Joey Leslie for allowing us to display it here) |
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His life was his genius. His love was a blessing.
Elizabeth Taylor
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How fine it would be, A lifetime well spent, With loving and learning And kindly intent. Then after one's name Has been called by the owl, Touring the back-lots of heaven With Roddy McDowall, Where, wise to humility's Dodges and feints, He begins shooting candids Of little-known saints. |
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A short couple of weeks before Roddy McDowall left us (Oct. 4), he sent me a postcard — the front of which was a photograph of flowers that he had taken and the back of which read: "We are both — all — everywhere — together in a neverending circle of love."
LEE B. WINKLER
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... Roddy McDowall (a charter member of the National Film Preservation Board and long-time Academy Board governor), who, during his too-brief life, elevated the valued concepts of friendship, generosity and love of culture to rarely-attained heights.
— James H. Billington |
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[Roddy was] one of my most favorite people. His sensitivity and fairness, his honorable behavior and his dedication to his work will always be the hallmark of his beautiful spirit.
Peggy Webber
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