Malcolm McDowell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 13 June 1943 · Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
Malcolm McDowell is an English actor with a career spanning over forty years. McDowell is principally known for his roles in the controversial films Caligula, If...., O Lucky Man! and A Clockwork Orange. His versatility as an actor has led to his presence in many films and television series of different genres, including Tank Girl, Star Trek Generations, the TV serial Our Friends in the North, Entourage, Heroes, Metalocalypse, animated film Bolt and the 2007 remake of Halloween and the 2009 sequel Halloween II. He is also well known for his narration of the seminal 1982 documentary, The Compleat Beatles.
Known for
Acting 248
- 2026Dog & Bull
- 2026Herbert West: Reanimator
- 2026Summerhouse
- 2026Dirt
- 2026Ever After as The Frog King (voice)
- 2026The Panic as Stanford White
- 2026The Spider as Von Wessel
- 2026Robot Dracula as Robot Dracula
- 2026Psycho Killer as Mr. Pendleton
- 2025Wizardream as The Wizard Mangodor
- 2025Last Train to Fortune as Cecil Peachtree
- 2025The Partisan as Trench coat
- 2025Trick and Treats as Trick (Voice)
- 2025A Natural Selection as Duncan Carlysle
- 2025Et Tu as The Janitor
- 2024Thelma as Harvey
- 2024Cellphone
- 2023Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar as Vader Orlag (voice)
- 2023Moving On as Howard
- 2022She Will as Hathbourne
- 2022The Walk as McLaughlin
- 2022Father Stu as Monsignor Kelly
- 2021Dreaming of Stars: An ASMR Feature Film as Self (voice)
- 2021Pups Alone as Oliver (voice)
- 2021A Forbidden Orange as Narrator (voice) / Alex DeLarge
- 2021A Wonderful Kingdom as Narrator
- 2021Blood on the Crown as Colonel Saville
- 2020TimeCrafters: The Treasure of Pirate's Cove as Captain Lynch
- 2020Free Lunch Express as Narrator
- 2020The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two as Hakan
- 2020Kubrick by Kubrick as Self (archive footage)
- 2020Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies as Self
- 2020The Big Ugly as Harris
- 2020Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi as Self
- 2020Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness as Self
- 2019Bombshell as Rupert Murdoch
- 2018Corbin Nash as Blind Prophet
- 2018Dreams I Never Had as Judge Messner
- 2018Abnormal Attraction as Boogeyman
- 2017Conspiracy of Fear as Evo
- 2017American Satan as Mr. Capricorn
- 2017Yamasong: March of the Hollows as Lord Geer (voice)
- 2017Grow House as Dr. Doobie
- 2017Walk of Fame as Evan Polus
- 2017Heroes Manufactured as Self (archive footage)
- 2017Death Race 2050 as Chairman
- 2017Mississippi Murder as McGowen
- 2016The Search for Life in Space as Narrator
- 201631 as Father Murder
- 2016Because I Am a Genius! Lorenza Mazzetti as Himself
- 2016The Mystery of Casa Matusita as Supay
- 2015Kids vs Monsters as Boss Monster
- 2015The Soul of a Spy
- 2015Lady Psycho Killer as Gerald Portersen
- 2015Oceanus: Act One as Triton (Ship's Computer)
- 2015The Black Hole as Mr. Simms
- 2015Cowboys & Engines as Dr. Clay
- 2015Bereave as Garvey
- 2015Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness as Sly Baron (voice)
- 2014Some Kind of Beautiful as Gordon
- 2014Kubrick Remembered as Self
- 2014Shock Value as Edmund Dean Huntley
- 2014Elwood as Narrator (voice)
- 2014Mischief Night as Mr. Smiles
- 2014Tbilisi, I Love You as Mr. M
- 2014Free Fall as Thaddeus Gault
- 2013Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem - A Klok Opera as Vater Orlagg (voice)
- 2013Zombex as Dr. Soulis
- 2013Masterpiece: Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns as Narrator (voice)
- 2013The Gillian Hills Trilogy
- 2013The Employer as The Employer
- 2013A Green Story as Barton
- 2013Meet the Small Potatoes as Lester Koop (voice)
- 2013The Anatomy of a Virus: The Making of Antiviral as Himself
- 2013Sanitarium as Dr. Stenson
- 2013Richard The Lionheart as King Henry II
- 2012Home Alone: The Holiday Heist as Sinclair
- 2012Silent Night as Sheriff Cooper
- 2012Stanley Kubrick in Focus as Self
- 2012Silent Hill: Revelation 3D as Leonard Wolf
- 2012Antiviral as Dr. Abendroth
- 2012Excision as Mr. Cooper
- 2012Vamps as Vlad Tepish
- 2012The Philadelphia Experiment as Morton Salinger
- 2012The Artist: The Making of an American Romance as Self
- 2012Hollywood as Character: The Locations of The Artist as Himself
- 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2011The Artist as The Butler
- 2011Santiago Files as Narrator
- 2011No Rest for the Wicked: A Basil & Moebius Adventure as Mr. Bloome
- 2011Suing The Devil as Satan
- 2011Golf in the Kingdom as Julian Lange
- 2011Turning Like Clockwork as Self
- 2011Once Upon a Time… A Clockwork Orange as Self
- 2011Pound of Flesh as Professor Noah Melville
- 2011LEGO Hero Factory: Ordeal of Fire as Mr. Makuro (voice)
- 2011LA Phil Live as Prospero
- 2011L.A., I Hate You as Harold Weintraub
- 2010The Making of Easy A as Self
- 2010LEGO Hero Factory: Rise of the Rookies as Mr. Makuro (voice)
- 2010DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection as Merlyn the Magnificent (segment "Green Arrow") (voice)
- 2010DC Showcase: Green Arrow as Merlyn the Magnificent (voice)
- 2010Easy A as Principal Gibbons
- 2010The Invocation as Self
- 2010Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes as Professor Moriarity (voice)
- 2010What If Cannabis Cured Cancer as himself
- 2010Monster Butler as Roy Fontaine
- 2010Barry Munday as Mr. Farley
- 2010The Book of Eli as Lombardi
- 2009Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation! as Grandpa Fletcher (voice)
- 2009Suck as Eddie Van Helsing
- 2009Halloween II as Dr. Samuel Loomis
- 2009Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil as Self
- 2009Super Rhino as Dr. Calico (voice)
- 2009Behind The Scenes of Caligula
- 2008Delgo as Raius (voice)
- 2008Bolt as Dr. Calico (voice)
- 2008The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files as Self
- 2008Blue Gold: World Water Wars as Narrator
- 2008Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween as Self
- 2008Coco Chanel as Marc Bouchier
- 2008Anatomy of Catastrophe: The Making of 'Doomsday' as Self
- 2008Doomsday as Dr. Marcus Kane
- 2007Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick as Narrator (voice)
- 2007My Roman Holiday With John Steiner as Self - Archive Footage
- 2007Halloween as Dr. Samuel Loomis
- 2007Robot Chicken: Star Wars as Orientation Instructor (voice)
- 2007Never Apologize as Self
- 2007Exitz as Percy
- 2007The List as Desmond Larochette
- 2006O Lucky Malcolm! as Self
- 2006The Curse of King Tut's Tomb as Nathan Cairns
- 2006Bye Bye Benjamin as Mr. Coleman
- 2006Cut Off as James Burton
- 2005Billy and Mandy Save Christmas as Baron Von Ghoulish (voice)
- 2005Rag Tale as Richard Morton
- 2005Mirror Wars: Reflection One as Dick Murdoch
- 2005Jaws of the Pacific as Narrator (voice)
- 2005Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone as Ogthar (voice)
- 2004Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man? as Self
- 2004In Good Company as Teddy K (uncredited)
- 2004Cast & Crew: If.... as Self - Interviewee
- 2004Pinocchio 3000 as Scamboli (voice)
- 2004Tempesta as Paul Valenzin
- 2004Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius as O.B. Keeler
- 2004Evilenko as Andrej 'Romanovic' Evilenko
- 2004Hidalgo as Major Davenport
- 2003The Company as Alberto Antonelli
- 2003Red Roses and Petrol as Enda Doyle
- 2003Inhabited as Dr. Werner
- 2003Tempo as Shrenger
- 2003I'll Sleep When I'm Dead as Boad
- 2003Dorian as Henry
- 2002The Barber as Dexter Miles
- 2002I Spy as Gundars
- 2002Between Strangers as Alan Baxter
- 2002Shadow Realm as Martin Hudson
- 2001Just Visiting as Wizard
- 2001Princess of Thieves as Sheriff of Nottingham
- 2001Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film as Self
- 2001The Void as Dr. Thomas Abernathy
- 2000Island of the Dead as Rupert King
- 2000Gangster No. 1 as Gangster 55
- 2000Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange' as Self
- 2000St. Patrick: The Irish Legend as Quentin
- 2000The David Cassidy Story as Jack Cassidy
- 1999Stanley and Us as Self
- 1999Southern Cross as Felipe Solano
- 1999My Life So Far as Uncle Morris MacIntosh
- 1999Y2K as Seward
- 1999Love Lies Bleeding as Malcolm Mead
- 1999Can of Worms as Barnabus (voice)
- 1999Sharks of the Deep Blue as Narrator
- 1998The First 9½ Weeks as Francois Dubois
- 1998The Gardener as Ben Carter
- 1998Day of the Full Moon
- 1998The Fairy King as Ian
- 1998Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy as Narrator (voice)
- 1997Mr. Magoo as Austin Cloquet
- 1997Hugo Pool as Henry Dugay
- 1997Giga Shadow as Yottskry
- 19972103: The Deadly Wake as Captain Sean Murdoch
- 1997Asylum as Sullivan Rane / Doc
- 1996Where Truth Lies as Dr. Vernon Renquist
- 1996Superman: The Last Son of Krypton as John Corben (voice)
- 1996Night Train to Venice as Stranger
- 1996Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man as Self
- 1996Yesterday's Target as Holden
- 1996The Little Riders as Capt. Kessel
- 1996Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen as Quote Reader
- 1996Ringer as Noel
- 1995Cyborg 3: The Recycler as Lord Talon
- 1995Kids of the Round Table as Merlin
- 1995Fist of the North Star as Ryuken
- 1995Tank Girl as Kesslee
- 1995Dangerous Indiscretion as Roger Everett
- 1995Fatal Pursuit as Bechtel
- 1995The Surgeon as Dr. Stein
- 1994Star Trek: Generations as Dr. Tolian Soran
- 1994Milk Money as Waltzer
- 1994Seasons of the Heart as Alfred McGuinness
- 1994The Man Who Wouldn't Die as Bernard Drake / Ian Morrissey
- 1993Bopha! as De Villiers
- 1993East Wind as General Smyslovsky
- 1993Your Guide to Star Trek: Generations as Self
- 1992Chain of Desire as Hubert Bailey
- 1992The Player as Malcolm McDowell
- 1991Assassin of the Tsar as Timofeyev / Yurovsky
- 1991Venins as Prof. Baldwin
- 1990Disturbed as Dr. Derrick Russell
- 1990Jezebel's Kiss as Benjamin J. Faberson
- 1990Schweitzer as Albert Schweitzer
- 1990Maggio musicale as Pier Francesco Ferraioli
- 1990Class of 1999 as Dr. Miles Langford
- 1990Moon 44 as Major Lee
- 1989Happily Ever After as Lord Maliss (voice)
- 1989Mortacci as Edmondo
- 1989Buy & Cell as Warden Tennant
- 1989Il maestro as Walter Goldberg
- 1988An Audience With Victoria Wood as Self
- 1988Sunset as Alfie Alperin
- 1987The Caller as The Caller
- 1985Arthur the King as King Arthur
- 1985Gulag as The Englishman
- 1983Little Red Riding Hood as The Wolf a.k.a. Reginald Von Lupin / Narrator
- 1983Cross Creek as Max Perkins
- 1983Get Crazy as Reggie Wanker
- 1983Blue Thunder as Cochrane
- 1982The Compleat Beatles as Narrator
- 1982Britannia Hospital as Mick Travis
- 1982Cat People as Paul Gallier
- 1981A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula' as Self / Caligula
- 1980Look Back in Anger as Jimmy Porter
- 1979Time After Time as H. G. Wells
- 1979Caligula as Caligula
- 1979Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip as Self
- 1979The Passage as Capt. Von Berkow
- 1978She Fell Among Thieves as Richard Chandos
- 1976Voyage of the Damned as Max Gunter
- 1976Aces High as Maj. John Gresham
- 1976The Collection as Bill
- 1975Royal Flash as Captain Harry Flashman / Prince Karl Magnus
- 1973O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment as Himself
- 1973O Lucky Man! as Michael Arnold Travis / Plantation Thief
- 1971A Clockwork Orange as Alex
- 1971The Raging Moon as Bruce Pritchard
- 1970Figures in a Landscape as Ansell
- 1968if.... as Mick Travis
Production 7
- 2025Last Train to Fortune · producer
- 2020The Big Ugly · executive producer
- 2015Lady Psycho Killer · executive producer
- 2013The Employer · executive producer
- 2011Pound of Flesh · executive producer
- 2010Monster Butler · producer
- 1973O Lucky Man! · producer
crew 2
- 2014The One I Love · thanks
- 1979Caligula · additional dialogue
Directing 1
- 2012Os 12 Desastres de Natal · director
Writing 1
- 1973O Lucky Man! · writer