TCM To Pay Tribute to One of Its Own, Actor and Host of TCM's Preservation
Showcase Roddy McDowall, Next Monday, October 12

    ATLANTA--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1998--On Monday, October 12, The
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable network will honor a valued member of the
TCM family, actor and host of TCM's weekly series Preservation Showcase, Roddy
McDowall.

    TCM's four-movie tribute will include McDowall's enduring
performance in the 1943 classic LASSIE COME HOME (8 p.m. ET).  TCM's tribute
schedule is as follows:

8 p.m.     LASSIE COME HOME (1944) -- co-starring Donald Crisp, Dame Mae
Whitty and Edmund Gwenn in this classic tearjerker about America's favorite
collie working his way back home to the poor family who was forced to sell
him.

9:45 p.m.  THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER (1944) --

12 a.m.    LORD LOVE A DUCK (1966) --

2 a.m.     THE LOVED ONE (1965) --

     A member of the National Film Preservation Board, McDowall made his debut
on TCM in April 1997 as host of the network's, Preservation Showcase, a weekly
series spotlighting recently restored and preserved films, and was TCM's
official spokesperson for film preservation.  A child actor in British Films
in the late 1930s, McDowall moved to the United States in the '40s and became
a star in films such as LASSIE and How Green Was My Valley (1941).  He
had appeared in more than 90 films, including the classic The Planet of the
Apes series.  In addition to acting, he had published several photography
books.

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