This evening honoring one of the world's most dynamic actors includes a compilation reel, a conversation about his extensive career and a screening of a hard-to-find film.

Malcolm McDowell is arguably among the most dynamic and inventive of world-class actors, capable of profound intensity, humor and charm. With over 280 acting credits in film and television (and 11 more currently in the works), he is one of the most prolific actors in the business with an absolutely transfixing presence on screen.

Since catapulting to the screen in Lindsay Anderson's acclaimed satire about English public schools, McDowell has created a gallery of colorful characters—the most iconic being the gleefully amoral Alex in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. He has played heroes, defeating Jack the Ripper as H.G. Wells in Time After Time (1979), and villains, battling both Picard and Kirk in Star Trek: Generations (1994), and starred in some of cinema's most notorious films, from Caligula (1979) to Cat People (1982). Now a veteran performer, he lends gravitas to supporting characters in such acclaimed films as Easy A (2010), The Artist (2011), Bombshell (2019) and most recently the Sundance hit Thelma (2024). And we would be remiss not to mention that one of his earliest roles was as an escaped POW in Figures in a Landscape (1970), directed by Joseph Losey '29. 

Following the tribute reel and an extended conversation will be a screening of Never Apologize, which captures McDowell's one-man show about his lifelong friendship with the British director Lindsay Anderson, who launched his career. McDowell recounts the story of a fruitful collaboration between two great artists and provides a valuable oral history of the British film industry of the 1970s. Reveling in behind-the-scenes gossip, delivered mostly through letters from Lindsay which Malcolm reads with gusto, this hard-to-find film is a perfect showcase of Malcolm's range and talent as an actor.

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