Arguably amongst the most dynamic and inventive of world-class actors, yet one also capable of immense charm, humor and poignancy, Malcolm McDowell has created a gallery of iconographic characters since catapulting to the screen as Mick Travis, the rebellious upperclassman, in Lindsay Anderson’s prize-winning sensation, IF…

His place in movie history was subsequently secured when Stanley Kubrick finally found the actor he was searching for to play the gleefully amoral Alex in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE; when McDowell conceived the idea for the further adventures of Mick Travis in Anderson’s comedic epic O LUCKY MAN!; when he wooed Mary Steenburgen and defeated Jack the Ripper as the romantically inquisitive H.G. Welles in Nicholas Meyer’s TIME AFTER TIME; when he destroyed Capt. Kirk in STAR TREK: GENERATIONS, and when he pranced and parried as narcissistic ballet impresario Alberto Antonelli in Robert Altman’s THE COMPANY.

Those legendary roles have endured with legions of filmgoers while other adherents have been won over by: his compelling sinister CALIGULA; his compulsive title character in Paul McGuigan’s GANGSTER NO. 1, which afforded him the chance to create a character both on screen and through nuanced voice-over; his complex villain who taunts Clive Owen and traumatizes Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Mike Hodges’neo-noir I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD and his conflicted Yurovsky, who carries out the murder of the Romanovs in Karen Chakhnazarov’s ASSASSAIN OF THE TSAR. For the later, The New York Times said, “Not since reaching his mature years has McDowell given such a fine, strong, crafty performance. It is acted with immense skill.”

McDowell’s 100 feature film credits also include: Hugh Hudson’s MY LIFE SO FAR; Richard Lester’s ROYAL FLASH; Paul Schrader’s CAT PEOPLE; Rachel Talalay’s TANK GIRL; Robert Downey’s HUGO POOL; Joseph Losey’s FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE and Bryan Forbes’ LONG AGO TOMORROW. Also, the brilliant literary editor Maxwell Perkins in Martin Ritt’s CROSS CREEK; the Chaplin-esque studio boss in Blake Edwards’ SUNSET and the final incarnation of Mick Travis in BRITANNIA HOSPITAL, the third film in Anderson’s trilogy of British culture.

On television, he made his starring broadcast debut opposite Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates and Helen Mirren in Harold Pinter’s THE COLLECTION, directed by Michael Apted. Later work was highlighted by the influential British mini-series, OUR FRIENDS FROM THE NORTH, with Daniel Craig and Gina McKee, and most recently, as the agency head in the hit HBO series, ENTOURAGE. He played the Machiavellian Mr. Roarke in FANTASY ISLAND and the comically pompous professor opposite Rhea Perlman in PEARL, for which he was singled out as the show’s “freshest element.” For PBS, he committed to film his acclaimed interpretation of Jimmy Porter in the Roundabout Theater production of John Osborne’s LOOK BACK IN ANGER. On the New York stage, he received raves for the American premiere of David Storey’s IN CLEBRATION at the Manhattan Theater Club, directed by Lindsay Anderson, and for Oscar-winner Ronald Harwood’s ANOTHER TIME at the American Jewish Theater.

In Los Angeles, he and Swoozie Kurtz headlined HUNTING COCKROACHES at the Mark Taper Forum, directed by Arthur Penn. In London, he brought new life to the title character in Joe Orton’s ENTERTAINING MR. SLOAN, opposite Beryl Reid at the Royal Court, later transferring to the West End, and he undertook the Cary Grant role in Philip Barrie’s HOLIDAY, opposite Mary Steenburgen, at the Old Vic, under Anderson’s direction.

In addition to the currently filming ENTOURAGE, McDowell’s recent films include David Greico’s EVILENKO, made in Russia, Paul Weitz’ IN GOOD COMPANY and Tamar Simon Hoffs’ RED ROSES AND PETROL. Future projects include Abraham Polonsky’s adaptation of Thomas Mann’s novella, MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN, to be directed by Mike Hodges.

McDowell was born in Leeds, England and acted in several British repertory companies before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company. Shortly thereafter, he began his film career with IF… The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The American Cinematheque, The Deauville Festival, England’s National Museum of Film, Television and Photography, and the Australian Cinematheque have all accorded him major retrospectives.

He is married to painter/photographer Kelley Kuhr and is the father of actress Lilly McDowell, director Charlie McDowell and the recently arrived Beckett McDowell.