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Roddy McDowall in Planet of the Apes, 1968. Roddy McDowall came to fame with How Green Was My Valley and starred alongside Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, but The Planet of the Apes is what cemented his legacy By Samuel Garza Bernstein Ask a classic film fan about Roddy McDowall and they’ll quickly cite How Green Was My Valley or Lassie Come Home, maybe My Friend Flicka. Ask a devotee of screen epics and Cleopatra immediately springs to mind. Disaster film lovers remember The Poseidon Adventur...