Michael McDowell

Michael McDowell

writer, director

Michael McDowell was born on Jun 01, 1950 in USA. Michael McDowell's big-screen debut came with Stephen King's Golden Tales directed by Frank De Palma in 1985. Michael McDowell is known for The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert directed by James Monroe Iglehart, Rafael Casal stars as Jack Skellington and Adrienne Warren as Sally. The upcoming new movie Michael McDowell plays is Beetlejuice 2 which will be released on Sep 06, 2024.

McDowell was born in Enterprise, Alabama. According to his biography in the 1985 edition of Toplin, McDowell lived in Medford, Massachusetts. He also maintained a residence in Hollywood with his sister Ann and adventurer-filmmaker Peter Lake. The biography described a typical day: McDowell "writes in the mornings and spends the rest of the day looking out of the window in hope that something interesting will happen" and "collects photographs of corpses". He specialized in collecting photographs of train-decapitation victims and plaques from baby caskets. McDowell's life partner of 30 years was the theatre historian and director Laurence Senelick. McDowell died in 1999 in Boston, Massachusetts from AIDS-related illness. His unfinished novel Candles Burning was "completed" by Tabitha King, wife of Stephen King, and published in 2006.

  • Birthday

    Jun 01, 1950
  • Place of Birth

    Enterprise, Alabama, USA