Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Malcolm McDowell

August 2024

  • Malcolm McDowell portrait.

    The reader interview
    Malcolm McDowell: ‘Kubrick had stewed pears and sour chicken for lunch because Napoleon did’

    The actor answers your questions on Peter O’Toole, the new version of Caligula, growing up in Liverpool – and having his eyeballs scraped

July 2024

  • Malcolm McDowell.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Malcolm McDowell

    As his new film Thelma hits UK cinemas, the actor who is known for A Clockwork Orange, starring in South Park and killing Captain Kirk is taking your questions

May 2023

  • Malcolm McDowell as Caligula in the 1979 film of the same name.

    ‘An irresistible mix of art and genitals’: Caligula finally comes to Cannes

    Described by its screenwriter, Gore Vidal, as ‘easily one of the worst films ever made’, Caligula has been re-edited by Thomas Negovan and received its premiere this week. Here, he explains his decision to revisit the swords-and-sandals shockfest

July 2022

  • Alice Krige as Veronica Ghent, standing in front of a canvas, staring at some black paint on her fingers

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    She Will review – edgy psychological horror meets feminist revenge fable

    Charlotte Colbert’s atmospheric debut is anchored by Alice Krige as a fading screen icon whose trip to a Scottish retreat unearths sinister secrets
  • She Will.

    She Will review – atmospheric tale of post-menopausal revenge fantasies

    Alice Krige shines in this dark thriller, a tangy blend of folk horror and post-MeToo reckoning with a salty spike of satire
  • Charlotte Colbert … ‘It’s a strange time to be a human.’

    ‘Sisters, you’re flowing through me!’ The director whose horror film channels centuries of female rage

    Charlotte Colbert reflects on her debut film She Will, which sees a veteran actor channel the energy of women burned as witches against an ageing predator who groomed her decades earlier

December 2021

  • Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange.

    A Clockwork Orange at 50: Stanley Kubrick’s biggest, boldest provocation

    The controversial 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s button-pushing novel remains both utterly repellent and utterly compelling

July 2020

  • Vinnie Jones.

    The Big Ugly review – a boozy bonanza of blokey brutality

  • Actor Malcolm McDowell at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, He was promoting the film Friends of Lindsay Anderson, Edinburgh Scotland, UK 22 nd August 2004 COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY see for details: www.murdophoto.com No syndication, no redistrubution, repro fees apply.

    Malcolm McDowell: 'I have no memory of doing most of my films'

April 2019

  • 1971, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE<br>MALCOLM MCDOWELL Character(s): Alex Film 'A CLOCKWORK ORANGE' (1971) Directed By STANLEY KUBRICK 19 December 1971 AFA1673 Allstar/WARNER BROS. (UK/USA 1971) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of WARNER BROS. and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To WARNER BROS. is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    A Clockwork Orange review – Kubrick's sensationally scabrous thesis on violence

    This outlandish tale of dystopian delinquency remains deeply thought-provoking – but is not without troublesome elements
  • On the set of Barry Lyndon<br>American director and screenwriter Stanley Kubrick on the set of his movie Barry Lyndon. (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Ranked
    Stanley Kubrick's best films – ranked!

    From 1951’s Day of the Fight to his final film, Eyes Wide Shut, in 1999, we order the director’s work as A Clockwork Orange is re-released
  • ‘Playing Alex, I always had the idea of Laurence Olivier doing Richard III’ … Malcolm McDowell as Alex in Stanley Kubrick’s film.

    How we made
    How we made A Clockwork Orange – by Malcolm McDowell

    ‘The eyelid clamps kept slipping off and scratching my corneas. I was in so much pain I was banging my head against a wall’

March 2019

  • The horror … Rami Malek in Until Dawn.

    10 of the strangest star cameos in video games

    Rami Malek’s slasher horror, Bowie as a cyberpunk hacker, streetfighting Carmen Electra, and John Hurt down and dirty … improbable roles for A-listers

February 2019

  • False impression … Albert Finney played a trick on Two for the Road co-star Audrey Hepburn when they first met.

    Charm, booze and devilry: Malcolm McDowell and Mike Figgis on Albert Finney

    Spying on Michael Douglas, telling Nic Cage how to play drunk, pretending he was gay to Audrey Hepburn … two giants of cinema remember their hero Albert Finney

February 2018

  • Malcolm McDowell in Britannia Hospital, 1982, written by David Sherwin

    Malcolm McDowell on the screenwriter David Sherwin: ‘He started my career’

  • David Sherwin in 1969: he represented the first initial in the name of the production company, SAM, he formed with Lindsay Anderson and Malcolm McDowell.

    David Sherwin obituary

September 2016

  • Rob Zombie’s 31

    31 review – swastikas, chainsaws and psychopaths: a cinematic Jägerbomb

    Rob Zombie’s zombie slasher exudes efficient self-assurance as a troupe of carnival workers become fodder in Malcolm McDowell’s bloodsport

November 2007

  • Malcolm McDowell

    Malcolm in the middle

    John Patterson
    Malcolm McDowell talks to John Patterson about pitting legendary directors Stanley Kubrick and Lindsay Anderson against each other - and how he moved to Hollywood by accident.
Explore more on these topics
  翻译：