70s Moments: Roddy McDowall’s ‘Planet of the Apes’ home movies (1974)

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Remember kids, don't try this at home (Roddy McDowall, 1973)

Remember kids, don’t try this at home (Roddy McDowall, 1973)

And now we pause for this 70s Moment – Roddy McDowall presenting a brief, behind-the scenes look at his makeup process for Battle for the Planet of the Apes.

The scene come to us courtesy of McDowall’s 1974 appearance on The Carol Burnett Show. Watch it below.

‘The Carol Burnett Show’: Roddy McDowall’s ‘Planet of the Apes’ Home Movie Clip, 1974

Previously on 70s Moments: ‘Batman’s’ Burt Ward meets his fans (1972)

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  1. Back in the 1990s I met actor Buck Kartalian at an autograph show in Hollywood. He played “Julius” the jailkeeper in the original “Planet of the Apes.” He told me that during lunch breaks, he noticed that all the chimpanzees ate in one group, the orangutans in another, and the gorillas in another. No one ever mixed.