Even better known for his portrayal of Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange (1971) he began his professional life serving drink his parents' pub and then as a coffee salesman (the latter job providing inspiration for the pic O Lucky Human!); acting classes offered relief from either his working-class being, & yet he secured function as an additional by using a Royal Shakespeare Company.

McDowell mass produced his screen debut around Unfortunate Cow (1967) followed by The Raging Moon (1970), Figures within the Landscape (1970) and If.... (1968). His performances caught a attention of Stanley Kubrick, who cast McDowell when a lead around The Clockwork Orange. Alas, despite winning low acclamation (nominated for Better Actor per New York Film Critics Circle) for his role as the leader of a gang of futurist toughs, the role created a characterization and then unforgettable that the public experienced a firm instance separating actor from either character. As luck would have it, effective area did are his way, two in stage & screen. He rejoined Lindsay Anderson for the ambitious O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982), and asterisked inside Royal Flash (1975). He co-starred within Voyage of the Damned (1976), and manufactured the favourable Hollywood-movie debut as H. G. Wells in Time After Time (1979). That popular picture likewise introduced him to Mary Steenburgen, whom he subsequently married around 1980, but divorced 10 years late within 1990. He starred in the 1983 action film Blue Thunder as F.E. Cochrane.

McDowell played in the main nefarious area in the late 1970s and 1980s—none more ill-famed than a title character in the controversial Caligula (1979).

He is best known around Star Trek circles as 'a human world health organization flushed Captain James T. Kirk' in the film Star Trek: Generations, in which he played the mad scientist Dr. Tolian Soran.

Around 1991, McDowell married Kelley Kuhr. He has trey tikes, ii by Steenburgen: Lily Amanda, born January 21, 1981 and Charles Malcolm born July 10, 1983. His third kid, & 1st by Kuhr, is known as Beckett Taylor & was innate in January 29, 2004.

McDowell besides experienced the a share in the computer games Wing Commander III and Wing Commander IV when Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn, co-starring next to Mark Hamill.

McDowell appeared in the short-passing 1996-1997 sitcom Pearl, opposite Rhea Perlman, when well as swimming a section of Kesslee inside 1995 film Tank Girl.

Partial filmography

Evilenko (2004) In Good Company (2004) The Company (2003) Inhabited (2003) ''I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003) Hidalgo (movie) (2003) Tempo (movie) (2002/I) I Spy (2002) Between Strangers (2002) Gangster No. 1 (2000) Our Friends in the North (1996) (TV) Tank Girl (1995) Star Trek: Generations (1994) The Player (1992) Class of 1999 (1990) Disturbed (1990) Buy & Cell (1989) Sunset (1988) Blue Thunder (1983) Cross Creek (1983) Get Crazy (1983) Britannia Hospital (1982) Cat People (1982) Caligula (1979) The Passage (1979) Time After Time (1979) Voyage of the Damned (1976) Aces High (1976) Royal Flash (1975) O Lucky Man! (1973) A Clockwork Orange (1971) If....'' (1969)