Malcolm McDowell Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Executive Producer , Producer
Birth name Malcolm John Taylor
British nationality
Born June 13, 1943 (Horsforth, Yorkshire, Great Britain)

BIOGRAPHY
On the sidelines of a very difficult childhood and schooling, Malcolm McDowell discovered a real passion for acting. First a waiter in a pub before taking acting lessons, he managed to join the prestigious “Royal Shakespeare Company” in the 1960s. After numerous small roles on television, he debuted on the big screen in 1967 in Not of tears for Joy , Ken Loach ‘s first feature film . But his scenes were ultimately cut during editing.

He landed his first important role in If by Lindsay Anderson , where he played a leader of the schoolgirl revolt of 1968. In 1970, he was asked by Joseph Losey on the filming of Two Men on the Run , but it was in 1971 that he he actor reveals himself to the whole world, thanks to his incredible interpretation of young Alex, a mad murderer in Stanley Kubrick ‘s A Clockwork Orange . His performance earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor. From then on, the actor was mainly noted for feverish roles of marginal characters. We see him less extreme in Brave New World (1973) for which he found Lindsay Anderson, as a young army captain during the revolution of 1848 in The Heroic Froussard by Richard Lester (1975), then as Emperor Caligula in the film eponymous Tinto Brass (1979), alongside Peter O’Toole and Helen Mirren . The same year, McDowell also put himself in the shoes of the author of “The War of the Worlds” ( HG Wells ) in It Was Tomorrow . Victim of Paul Schrader ‘s La Féline in 1982, Malcom McDowell returned to Lindsay Anderson’s camera for a third time for Britannia Hospital and shot for Blake Edwards in Murders in Hollywood (1988). In the 90s, the actor favored television and starred in numerous series and TV films. His roles in the cinema are a little rarer: we still see him as a mad scientist in Delirium by Charles Winkler in 1990, before a short appearance in The Player (1992) by Robert Altman or in Visitors to America (2001). While continuing to increase the number of television appearances, in 2002 he was the artistic director of a dance troupe in Company de

Robert Altman and joined the cast of Only Death Can Stop Me (2003) with Clive Owen and Charlotte Rampling . Some of his performances stand out, such as that of Doctor Loomis in the remake of the film Halloween (2007) and its sequel (2009) by Rob Zombie . In 2011, he obtained his first silent role in The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius , the film with 5 Oscars. After a doctor character in Brandon Cronenberg ‘s first feature film ( Antiviral ), Mcdowell continues in the direction of the horror thriller with Silent Hill: Revelation (2012).
HIS FIRST STEPS ON SCREEN