Malcolm McDowell

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Malcolm McDowell was born on June 13, 1943 in Leeds, England, Malcolm had a private school education at Cannock, but didn't attend college even though he was accepted to a Sussex university. McDowell began his acting career in repertory, appearing with the Royal Shakespeare Company for two years. In 1967, McDowell landed his first film, Poor Cow. Before McDowell's scene was cut, it had attracted the attention of director Lindsay Anderson, who cast the 25-year-old actor as a prep-school rebel in If... (1968). Director Stanley Kubrick was likewise impressed by McDowell's ability to project working-class insolence; Kubrick starred the actor as futuristic street gang leader Alex in the controversial A Clockwork Orange (1971). Before acting, he first worked as a waiter in his father's pub in Liverpool and then moved on to become a coffee salesman before working as a messenger. McDowell kept himself busy in the '80s and '90s in both film and television. He made a cameo appearance as himself in The Player and was seen in Star Trek: Generations (1994), Tank Girl (1995), Richard Benjamin's Milk Money and Morgan Freeman's Bopha. In 1998, he accepted the role as Mr. Roarke in the TV series Fantasy Island. He continues to work steadily, in projects such as I Spy (2002) and Hidalgo (2004) .McDowell has had a fistful of marriages. In 1975, he married actress Margot Bennett. Five years later, he got divorced and married another actress, Mary Steenburgen. This marriage would last 10 years, and in 1991 he married again, this time to Kelley Kuhr, with whom he has a child.