FrameThrower · Actors · Roddy McDowall
Roddy McDowall
3 films · 298 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1968–2024
Born 17 September 1928 · London, England, UK · died 3 October 1998
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall was an English-American actor, director, and photographer. He is best known for portraying Cornelius and Caesar in the original Planet of the Apes film series, as well as Galen in the spin-off television series.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 298 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1968–2024
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play1960
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 298 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Roddy takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 62% of their frames are day, 51% natural — the look of the work Roddy takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 298 frames from Roddy McDowall's 3 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.