FrameThrower · Actors · Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell
12 films · 922 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1968–2016
Born 13 June 1943 · Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
Malcolm McDowell is an English actor with a career spanning over forty years. McDowell is principally known for his roles in the controversial films Caligula, If...., O Lucky Man! and A Clockwork Orange. His versatility as an actor has led to his presence in many films and television series of different genres, including Tank Girl, Star Trek Generations, the TV serial Our Friends in the North, Entourage, Heroes, Metalocalypse, animated film Bolt and the 2007 remake of Halloween and the 2009 sequel Halloween II. He is also well known for his narration of the seminal 1982 documentary, The Compleat Beatles.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 12 films · 922 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1968–2016
- Sitges Grand Honorary Award2009
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Saturn Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 922 frames from the 12 films we hold. This is the look of the work Malcolm takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 12 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 41% low key — the look of the work Malcolm takes.
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Lighting
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Antiviral
2012 · Dr. Abendroth
Halloween 2
2009 · Dr. Samuel Loomis
Halloween
2007 · Dr. Samuel Loomis
Cat People
1982 · Paul Gallier
O Lucky Man!
1973 · Michael Arnold Travis / Plantation Thief
A Clockwork Orange
1971 · Alex
If….
1968 · Mick Travis
31
2016 · Father Murder
Excision
2012 · Mr. Cooper
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
2012 · Leonard Wolf
Easy A
2010 · Principal Gibbons
Doomsday
2008 · Dr. Marcus Kane
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 922 frames from Malcolm McDowell's 12 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.