Malcolm John Taylor (born 13 June 1943), better known as Malcolm McDowell, is an English actor.
He has a reputation for playing villainous characters, including Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange; the title role in Caligula; Tolian Soran — the guy who dropped a bridge on Captain Kirk — in Star Trek: Generations (a part he only took because the producers let him drop that bridge); Admiral Tolwyn in Wing Commander 3, 4 and Academy; Metallo in the DC Animated Universe; and the villain of the Show Within a Show in Bolt.
Non-villainous roles include Major Gresham in Aces High 1976, H. G. Wells in Time After Time and Dr. Sam Loomis in the Rob Zombie Halloween (2007) remake.
Somewhere in between are Harry Flashman in the film version of Royal Flash, Mr. Roarke in the remake of Fantasy Island, and Rupert Murdoch in Bombshell.
He made his film debut in if.... (1968), and his performance in that film convinced Stanley Kubrick to cast him in A Clockwork Orange. It was the first of the so-called "Mick Travis Trilogy", followed by O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital, but aside from the main character's name and certain thematic similarities, the three movies aren't really related to each other.
In 2013, he appeared in some Sprint commercials with James Earl Jones, reading Totally Radical SMS texts and social media posts, and making them sound awesome.
He is also the maternal uncle of actor Alexander Siddig. He was previously married to Mary Steenburgen.
Malcolm is frequently confused with Roddy McDowall. No relation actually. And note the last name spelling.
Films and TV shows featuring Malcolm McDowell with their own trope pages include:
- The Artist (cameo as a man waiting for an audition)
- Batman: The Animated Series (Arkady Duvall)
- Blue Thunder (F.E. Cochran)
- Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (O.B. Keeler)
- Bolt (Dr. Calico)
- Bombshell (2019) (Rupert Murdoch)
- The Book of Eli (Lombardi the librarian - uncredited)
- Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys (Rhesus II)
- Caligula (Caligula)
- Can of Worms (Barnabus)
- Captain Plannet And The Planeteers (Zarm, last appearance only)
- Castlevania (2017) (Varney/Death)
- Cat People (1982) (Paul Gallier)
- ChalkZone (Barney the Encyclocentipedia)
- Class of 1999 (Dr. Miles Langford)
- Community (Professor Cornwallis)
- A Clockwork Orange (Alex De Large)
- DC Animated Universe (Metallo)
- Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (Ogthar)
- Doomsday (2008) (Dr. Marcus Kane)
- Easy A (Principal Gibbons)
- Evilenko (Andrej Romanovich Evilenko)
- Fantasy Island (the Revival) (Mr. Roarke)
- Fist of the North Star (Ryuken)
- Franklin & Bash (Stanton Infeld)
- Gangster No. 1 (Old Gangster)
- Get Crazy (Reggie Wanker)
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (Count Van Ghoulish)
- Heroes (Daniel Linderman)
- Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2009) (the remakes) (Dr. Sam Loomis)
- Hidalgo (Major Davenport)
- if.... (1968) (Mick Travis)
- Just Visiting as the Wizard
- Kids Of The Round Table as Merlin
- The Mentalist (Bret Stiles)
- Metalocalypse (Vater Orlaag)
- Mozart in the Jungle (Thomas)
- Mr. Magoo (Austin Cloquet)
- O Lucky Man! (Mick Travis)
- Our Friends in the North (Benny Barrett)
- Psych (Ambassador Fanshaw)
- The Passage (Captain von Berkow)
- Phineas and Ferb (Reginald Fletcher)
- Princess of Thieves (The Sheriff of Nottingham)
- Royal Flash (Captain Harry Flashman)
- Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (2012) (Leonard Wolf)
- Silent Night (2012) (Sheriff Cooper)
- South Park (2000) (A British Person in "Pip")
- Star Trek: Generations (Dr. Tolian Soran)
- Sunset (1988) (Alfie Alperin)
- Tank Girl (1995) (Kesslee)
- Teen Titans (Mad Mod)
- Time After Time (H. G. Wells)
- Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (2010) (Professor Moriarty)
- War and Peace (2007): Nikolai Bolkonsky
- Vamps (Vlad Tepish)
- Son of a Critch (2022) (Patrick "Pop" Critch)
Video games featuring McDowell:
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Uprising (President Rupert Thornley)
- The Elder Scrolls Online (Molag Bal)
- Fallout 3 (President John Henry Eden)
- Killzone 3 (Jorhan Stahl)
- God of War III (Daedalus)
- Wing Commander III, IV, and Academy (Admiral Tolwyn)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Dr. Monty)
