Roddy McDowall has narrated 6 audiobooks on Listento.it by 17 authors, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 38 ratings. The most-rated is More of the Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
More of the Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Summary
Who better to narrate today's best science-fiction stories than today's favorite science-fiction stars? This exciting collection features Roger Zelazny's "Permafrost" read by Siddig El Fadil ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Orson Scott Card's "Fat Farm" read by Roddy McDowall ( Planet of the Apes), and John Varley's "Options" read by Claudia Christian ( Babylon 5). Robin Curtis ( Star Trek III and Star Trek IV), Terry Farrell ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Nana Visitor ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Wil Wheaton ( Star Trek: The Next Generation) also perform, reading works by Karen Joy Fowler, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Robert Silverberg, Arthur C. Clarke, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Joe Haldeman.
©1980 by Omni Publications International Ltd.; 1951 by Arthur C. Clarke; 1993 by Joe Haldeman; 1980 by Agberg, Ltd.; 1979 by John Varley; 1988 by Omni Publications International Ltd.; 1985 Karen Joy Fowler; 1987 by Davis Publications; 1987 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (P)1995 by Dove Audio, Inc.
The Stars Shine Down
Summary
The young, beautiful, and relentless Lara Cameron has amassed international wealth and power, with equal success in affairs of the heart. But an angry ex-lover has vengeance in mind - a motive that could cost Lara the empire she struggled a lifetime to build. Setting the stage in Scotland and Nova Scotia, maestro of mystery Sydney Sheldon lures his readers down a chain of intrigue through Chicago, New York, London, Rome, and Reno. Hollywood's Roddy McDowall narrates the shocks and turns of Lara's climb from a past she tries to suppress.
©1992 by Sheldon Literary Trust (P)1992 Dove Audio, Inc.
Billy
Summary
A chilling tale that could only come from the pen of the best-selling wizard of suspense Whitley Strieber. Here is a story so terrifying it will leave you breathless. Whitley Strieber's newest novel about a young boy who is kidnapped by a deranged misfit is a shocking look into the dark soul of a psychopath. Whitley Strieber is also the author of such novels as Communion and Transformation.
©1990 Whitley Streiber (P)2009 Phoenix
Classic Christmas Radio Plays
Summary
This collection contains six classic Christmas radio productions from the '30s, '40s, and '50s: "A Christmas Carol" from Campbell Playhouse, with Orson Welles as host and Lionel Barrymore as Ebeneezer Scrooge (December 24, 1939) "Christmas by Injunction", a dramatization of O. Henry's classic story, from Author's Playhouse (December 21, 1941) "Miracle on 34th Street" from Lux Radio Theatre, with the stars of the original motion picture: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, and Edmund Gwenn (December 25, 1949) "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" by Paul Gallico, from Radio City Playhouse (December 25, 1949) "Lullaby of Christmas" starring Roddy McDowall and Ruth Hussey, from Family Theater (December 19, 1951) "All is Bright" from CBS Radio Workshop (December 23, 1956)
©2006 Radio Spirits, Inc. (P)2006 Radio Spirits, Inc.
Goldwyn
Summary
In this adventure, which would have played well in one of his own films, Schmuel Goldfisz left the Warsaw ghetto in 1895. He walked 300 miles to the Oder River, where he paid someone to row him across, smuggling him out of the Russian empire into Germany, past border patrols to another long walk to Hamburg. The gleam in his eye was America, "a far-away country, a vision of paradise." Schmuel Goldfisz became Samuel Goldwyn, one of the producers who created the Hollywood film industry. His pictures, notably Stella Dallas, Wuthering Heights, and The Best Years of Our Lives, were famous for "the Goldwyn Touch". And Goldwyn himself was one of the most colorful of the vivid personalities of his time. The Saturday Evening Post called him "the central figure of the great comic legend". Americans still indulge in "Goldwynisms" when they order somebody to "include me out" or "stop biting the hand of the goose that laid the golden eggs." Goldwyn's son calls this book "the biography my father would have wanted" -- a very special look at Hollywood and one of its leading figures.
©1998 A. Scott Berg (P)2009 Phoenix
The Guest of Honor
Summary
U.S. President Matthew Underwood is dangerously indifferent to his job until he meets the female head of tiny Lampang, falls in love, and becomes mired in Lampang's internal politics when the affair topples by the hand of a jealous First Lady and a nosy reporter. Most famous for his role in Planet of the Apes, English born American actor Roddy McDowell grew up in the motion picture industry, he featured and starred on television and in more than 100 films.
©1989 Irving Wallace (P)1989 Dove Books-On-Tape, Phoenix Books