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Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell
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Malcolm McDowell

Roswell, NM USA

"Don't let anything get in the way of your ambition."

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Malcolm's work combines: Acting & Theatre, Film, and Being Creative

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Day In The Life

Actor

I'm an actor, perhaps most widely known for my role as Alex DeLarge in "The Clockwork Orange."

Skills & Education

Here's the path I took:

  • High School

  • Bachelor's Degree

    Acting

    London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, England

Life & Career Milestones

My path in life has been direct

  • 1.

    Believes that you can't break into acting without some serious hard work and some luck.

  • 2.

    Says most actors have to have a side job; his was as a bike messenger in London, which gave him free time and transportation to auditions.

  • 3.

    He'd been acting for four years when he got an audition for a play called "If."

  • 4.

    The scene called for him to kiss his co-star "passionately"; since she was a beautiful woman, he thought, "Well, there's a bit of luck."

  • 5.

    What he didn't realize was that the scene also called for his co-star to hit him; she basically punched his lights out, but he got the part.

  • 6.

    Stanley Kubrick saw him in that play and cast him as the star of A Clockwork Orange; at the age of 24, he was suddenly a movie star.

  • 7.

    Says that his best advice for young people is, "don't worry about it."

  • 8.

    Stresses that the most important things to do are to figure out who you are and to "doggedly" pursue your dreams.