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Arguably amongst the most dynamic and inventive of world-class actors, yet one also capable of immense charm, humor and poignancy, Malcolm McDowell has created a gallery of iconographic characters since catapulting to the screen as "Mick Travis", the rebellious upperclassman, in Lindsay Anderson's prize-winning sensation, IF…

His place in movie history was subsequently secured when Stanley Kubrick finally found the actor he was searching for to play the gleefully amoral "Alex" in A Clockwork Orange; when McDowell conceived the idea for the further adventures of "Mick Travis" in Anderson's comedic epic O Lucky Man!; when he wooed Mary Steenburgen and defeated "Jack the Ripper" as the romantically inquisitive H.G. Welles in Nicholas Meyer's Time After Time; when he destroyed "Capt. Kirk" in Star Trek: Generations, and when he pranced and parried as narcissistic ballet impresario "Alberto Antonelli" in Robert Altman's The Company.

Those legendary roles have endured with legions of filmgoers while other adherents have been won over by: his compellingly sinister Caligula; his compulsive Gangster No. 1, in which he created a character both on screen and through nuanced voice-over; his complex villain who taunts Clive Owen and traumatizes Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Mike Hodges' neo-noir I'll Sleep When I'm Dead and his conflicted "Yurovsky", who carries out the murder of the Romanovs in Karen Chakhnazarov's Assassain of the Tsar. For the latter, The New York Times said, "Not since reaching his mature years has McDowell given such a fine, strong, crafty performance. It is acted with immense skill."

McDowell's 100 feature film credits include: My Life So Far; Royal Flash>; Cat People; Tank Girl; Hugo Pool; Figures in a Landscape and Long Ago Tomorrow. Also, the brilliant literary editor Maxwell Perkins in Martin Ritt's Cross Creek; the Chaplin-esque studio boss in Blake Edwards' Sunset and the final incarnation of "Mick Travis" in Britannia Hospital, the third film in Anderson's trilogy.

On television, he made his starring debut opposite Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates and Helen Mirren in Harold Pinter's The Collection, directed by Michael Apted. Later televison was highlighted by the influential British mini-series, Our Friends from the North, with Daniel Craig and Gina McKee, and most recently, as the agency head in the hit HBO series, Entrourage.

For PBS, he committed to film his acclaimed "Jimmy Porter" in the Roundabout Theater production of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. On the New York stage, he received raves for the American premiere of David Storey's In Clebration at the Manhattan Theater Club, directed by Lindsay Anderson, and for Oscar-winner Ronald Harwood's Another Time at The American Jewish Theater. In Los Angeles, he and Swoozie Kurtz headlined Hunting Cockroaches at the Mark Taper Forum, directed by Arthur Penn. In London, he brought new life to the title character in Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloan, opposite Beryl Reid at the Royal Court, later transferring to the West End, and he undertook the Cary Grant role in Philip Barrie's Holiday, opposite Mary Steenburgen, at the Old Vic, again under Anderson's direction.

In addition to Entourage, McDowell's recent films include David Greico's Russian-made Evilenko, Paul Weitz' In Good Company, and Tamar Simon Hoffs' Red Roses and Petrol. He has also created a lot of buzz for his recent role in the hit TV series, HEROES.

In the Fall of 2007, McDowell was seen in the starring role in Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN, based on the John Carpenter classic. It was a great success and broke box office records for a Labor Day opening. Malcolm was also in the successful theatrical release Doomsday, which came to theatre's in March of 2008. Future projects include Abraham Polonsky's adaptation of the Thomas Mann novella, Mario and the Magician, to be directed by Mike Hodges.

McDowell was born in Leeds, England and acted in several British repertory companies before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company. Shortly thereafter, he began his film career with IF…

The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The American Cinematheque, The Deauville Festival, England's National Museum of Film, Television and Photography, and the Australian Cinematheque have all accorded him major retrospectives. He is married to painter – photographer Kelley Kuhr and is the father of actress Lilly McDowell, director Charlie McDowell and the recently arrived Beckett Taylor McDowell and Finnian Anderson McDowell.

Visit Malcolm McDowell's official web site at http://www.georgetakei.com/


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