The Roddy McDowall Story

From Child Star to Hollywood Icon: The Extraordinary Life and Career of a Versatile Actor

von Frederick O Williams

116 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

He was twelve years old when he became one of the most famous faces in America - and he spent the next fifty-eight years making sure that was never the most interesting thing about him.Most child stars get one shot. The cameras fall in love with them, the world falls in love with them, and then, almost always, the world moves on - leaving behind a name people recognize but can't quite place, and a life spent chasing the ghost of who they used to be at ten years old. Roddy McDowall refused that ending. Not once, but three times over.He was the wide-eyed boy who broke hearts in How Green Was My Valley. He was the Tony Award-winning Broadway star who stood toe-to-toe with Richard Burton in Camelot. He was the man behind the makeup - Cornelius, then Caesar - who gave Planet of the Apes its conscience and its soul, using nothing but his voice and his eyes to make audiences forget they were watching an actor at all. And later, he was the beloved vampire hunter of Fright Night, the whispering Mad Hatter of Batman, the gentle caterpillar in A Bug's Life - proof that reinvention wasn't a phase of his career. It was the entire career.This is a story about what it costs - and what it takes - to keep starting over. About friendships that lasted fifty years. About a private life guarded with a discipline most of Hollywood couldn't manage for a week. And about a man who, even in his final months, kept showing up to do the work, because he had never once stopped believing that was who he was.If you've ever wondered whether it's possible to survive fame, rebuild a life more than once, and still end up loved by everyone who ever worked with you - Roddy McDowall already answered that question. All that's left is to read how he did it.Turn the page, and meet the boy who refused to disappear.

• ISBN: 9798193437376
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp