This is me with Roddy McDowall. As if you need to be told, I’m the dumpy guy on the right. McDowall was effortlessly dapper and charming, despite having just caught a scoundrel onstage in the national tour of Dial M for Murder which played New Haven’s Shubert in 1994. McDowall played Inspector Hubbard in the Frederick Knott thriller.
What are we talking about? Noel Coward and Planet of the Apes, naturally. Oh, and Night Gallery. This is just four years before Roddy McDowall’s death from lung cancer. He’s 66 here—really, doesn’t he look great?
This photo (taken by former Shubert press flack Morton Langbord) is also notable for showing the back of the blonde head of the ever-stylish Elizabeth Curren, the famed New Haven Register society reporter who passed away last month. I’ve eulogized Ms. Curren in the June 2 issue of the New Haven Advocate (here) and at my site www.scribblers.us (here).
Sweet! Great photo. Roddy was an amazing person and a class act. Thanks for sharing.