Was roddy mcdowall gay

@incorrectmeddlingkids Yup. And there’s a very high chance he and Roddy McDowall were lovers.

1. Roddy McDowall was in-the-closet gay for most of his life.

2. Roddy used to host dinner parties twice a week. One night for the gay of Hollywood, another for the straights. Vincent Price attended both.

3. Roddy played Peter Vincent in the original Fright Evening and Fright Night part 2 based on a cross between Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. So as Peter Vincent was played by a lgbtq+ man who partly based the character on a bisexual man, there’s a very high chance the character of Peter Vincent in the original Fright Night is also at least bisexual. Making him the first LGBT+ vampire hunter in American pop culture.

4. When Vincent Price’s daughter learned that her father was bisexual it was Roddy McDowall she confronted and asked “Why didn’t you tell me my dad was bisexual?” and Roddy’s response was along the lines of “We didn’t know the term. How could you deny something if you don’t comprehend the word?” The “We” suggests to me that Roddy may not have been entirely gay, especially with his famous dinner parties. They were probably both bi.

But any event, I s

He represented gay Hollywood better than most. Everyone suspected Roddy was gay from the time he was a infant actor. In studying him one might say well, if he's not lgbtq+, then he must be English. As it turns out, he was both. He never hid his gayness from his profession, never made up stories about himself but neither did he make a general announcement... not endorse in those days. He just was. Few actors, queer or not, were ever as well-liked with the acting community as Roddy McDowall.

I occasionally drove by his residence in Studio Municipality, California, hoping to see him or the many friends who came and went most days and most hours unless he was working. He was the host with the most at his frequent parties, many of them elaborate affairs, some just having 8-10 people over for brunch and a swim. He did, of course, hold his all-male soirees but more were probably mixed.

He was like the father confessor to his many friends and he took most of the secrets to his grave. He was famous for being very discreet except, perhaps if it deeply interested his closest female friends, Maureen O'Hara and Elizabeth Taylor. It seems he told them

Roddy McDowall was a child actor who made his Hollywood breakthrough in “How Green Was My Valley” (1941). He soon met his life long companion Elizabeth Taylor when they co-starred in “Lassie Come Home” (1943).

Among his friends growing up in Hollywood were Tab Hunter and Farley Granger. Both of whom would later come out as gay.

He successfully transitioned to adult roles, appearing on Broadway as Mordred in the musical “Camelot” starring Richard Burton (1960). And as Ariel in the “Tempest” with future Apes costar Maurice Evans. He also co-starred with both Taylor and Burton in the epic motion picture “Cleopatra” (1963).

His career included a variety of roles in comedies and dramas - including the villain Bookworm in the Batman 66 series. And scifi fans will remember him as Cornelius and Caesar in the “Planet of the Apes” series (he starred in 4 of the 5 films between 1968 and 1973).

Roddy McDowell never married, and searches on the internet say a version of this: “(McDowall) was discreetly homosexual.”

“(Roddy’s) relationships with other men were poorly-kept secrets”.

It’s difficult to uncover actual names. Scott Bower, the infamous gas station pimp, claims McDow

Roddy McDowallborn 17 September 1928 (d. 1998)

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowallwas born in London on to a Scottish father and an Irish mother. His mother, who had herself aspired to be an actress, enrolled him in elocution lessons at the age of five; and at the age of ten he had his first major film role as the youngest son in Murder in the Family(1938). Over the next two years he appeared in a dozen British films, in parts large and small.

McDowall's movie career was interrupted, however, by the German bombardment of London in World War II. Accompanied by his sister and his mother, he was one of many London children evacuated to places abroad.

As a result, he arrived in Hollywood in 1940, and the charming young English lad soon landed a major role as the youngest son in How Lush Was My Valley (1941). The film made him a celebrity at thirteen, and he appeared as an endearing boy in numerous Hollywood movies throughout the war years, most notably Lassie, Come Home(1943), with fellow English child star and lifelong confidant Elizabeth Taylor, and My Partner Flicka(1943).

By his late teens, McDowall had outgrown the parts in which he had been most successful. Accordi