Malcolm McDowell

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1943 age 0

   Born

2. 1968 age 25

   CreditIf....

3. 1971 age 28

   CreditA Clockwork Orange

4. 1979 age 36

   CreditCaligula

   CreditCaligulascreenwriter

5. 1992 age 49

   CreditThe Player

6. 1994 age 51

   CreditStar Trek Generations

7. 2002 age 59

   CreditI Spy

8. 2007 age 64

   CreditHalloween

9. 2008 age 65

   CreditDoomsday

10. 2009 age 66

    CreditHalloween II

11. 2010 age 67

    CreditEasy A

    CreditThe Book of Eli

12. 2011 age 68

    CreditThe Artist

13. 2012 age 69

    CreditHome Alone: The Holiday Heist

    CreditSilent Hill: Revelation

14. 2019 age 76

    CreditBombshell

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• People think of him [Caligula] as a revolutionary or a figure of fun or a madman. There are so many aspects to him that we know really little about him, just the information that was given to us through a historian, a Roman historian called Suetonius, and he was from the other side of the family, so Suetonius paints Caligula as a very wicked madman, and that's the only reason that Suetonius considers why he did so many, on the face of it, crazy things. My interpretation of the character is not quite like that.

  Malcolm McDowell, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The Roman Empire, like any other empire, was made up purely of bureaucrats, the army, the priests and everything else, and he systematically goes from one institution to the other, trying to provoke them and trying to get an action out of them, and this is why in our view the misconception is that Caligula was completely mad... Anyway, he tries to destroy the institutions. Of course, naturally, he never fails. I mean, he does fail, simply because it's impossible to destroy a bureaucracy, and I think that is a very relevant point for modern-day audiences.

  Malcolm McDowell, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I do recall one particular night shoot… We were called to the set at four o'clock in the afternoon. As usual, nothing was ready. They'd built a set of Tiberius's grotto, on three acres, and were assembling all of the extras and background. The producers worriedly asked if I would go into Peter's trailer (he was playing Tiberius) and go through the lines with him, which we did few times.</br>And then he told me the most remarkable story – whether it is true or not I have no idea – about his grave-robbing Etruscan tombs. He said the best way to find Etruscan jewellery and artefacts was to find the drains in the tombs, and very gingerly sift through them with your fingers because, as the bodies decompose, all of the artifacts deposit themselves into the channels. The thought of Peter O'Toole on his hands and knees in an Etruscan catacomb makes for a lovely image.</br>We spent hours and hours in this trailer. He was smoking … it certainly wasn't tobacco. By the time we got onto the set, 12

  Malcolm McDowell, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United Kingdom

Height

174 cm

Languages

English

Years active

1957–

Education

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Tonbridge School