Malcolm McDowell (born 13 June 1943) is an English actor. McDowell's career has spanned more than forty years and includes notable roles in if...., A Clockwork Orange, O Lucky Man!, Tank Girl, Star Trek Generations, the TV serial Our Friends in the North, Entourage, Heroes, Metalocalypse, the 2007 remake of Halloween and the 2009 sequel Halloween II.
McDowell was born Malcolm John Taylor in Horsforth, Leeds, the son of Edna (née McDowell), a hote...
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Malcolm McDowell (born 13 June 1943) is an English actor. McDowell's career has spanned more than forty years and includes notable roles in if...., A Clockwork Orange, O Lucky Man!, Tank Girl, Star Trek Generations, the TV serial Our Friends in the North, Entourage, Heroes, Metalocalypse, the 2007 remake of Halloween and the 2009 sequel Halloween II.
McDowell was born Malcolm John Taylor in Horsforth, Leeds, the son of Edna (née McDowell), a hotelier, and Charles Taylor, a pub owner. However, six weeks after McDowell was born, his family relocated to the east coast of Yorkshire because his father was in the Royal Air Force.
McDowell began his professional life serving drinks in his parents' pub and then as a coffee salesman (the latter job providing inspiration for the movie O Lucky Man!). While enrolled in Cannock House School, he began taking acting classes, and eventually secured work as an extra with the Royal Shakespeare Company. McDowell made his screen debut as school rebel...
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