sCare Foundation To Honor Legendary Actor Malcolm McDowell With The 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The sCare Foundation announced today it will honor legendary actor Malcolm McDowell (Rob Zombie's Halloween, A Clockwork Orange) with the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 2^nd Annual Halloween Benefit on October 28, 2012.  The evening will be held at the Conga Room at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles, and will include great entertainment, a silent auction and plenty of exciting prizes.  The evening will benefit the life-saving programs of the Hollywood Homeless Youth Project (http://hhyp.org/), as well as Safety Harbor Kids (http://www.safetyharborkids.org/).

"Malcolm is an amazing actor and true professional," said sCare Foundation founder, Malek Akkad.  "He's always been an ardent supporter and we're excited to be able to honor him in this way. Besides being one of our greatest actors, he has always shown unwavering support to our cause, and his generosity and compassion are truly appreciated."

Malcolm McDowell is arguably among the most dynamic and inventive of world-class actors, yet also one capable of immense charm, humor and poignancy. McDowell has created a gallery of iconic characters since catapulting to the screen as Mick Travis, the rebellious upperclassman in Lindsay Anderson's prize-winning sensation, If...  His place in movie history was subsequently secured when Stanley Kubrick finally found the actor he was searching for to play the gleefully amoral Alex in A Clockwork Orange; when McDowell himself conceived the idea for Mick Travis' further adventures in Anderson's Candid-like masterpiece, O Lucky Man!; and when he wooed Mary Steenburgen and defeated Jack the Ripper as the romantically inquisitive H.G. Wells in Time After Time.  Those legendary roles are among the ones that have endured with legions of filmgoers while new fans have been won over by his tyrannical Soran (the destroyer of Capt. Kirk) in Star Trek: Generations; his Machiavellian Mr. Roarke in "Fantasy Island" and his comically pompous professor Steve Pynchon in the critically hailed CBS television series, "Pearl," starring opposite Rhea Perlman.

McDowell's distinctive motion picture characterizations include: Richard Lester's Royal Flash, Paul Schrader's Cat People, Rachel Talalay's Tank Girl, Joseph Losey's Figures in a Landscape, Bryan Forbes' The Raging Moon and the Chaplinesque studio boss in Blake Edwards' Sunset.  His film credits are further highlighted by his compellingly sinister Caligula; the brilliant literary editor Maxwell Perkins in Martin Ritt's Cross Creek; his cameo in Robert Altman's The Player; and his final incarnation of Mick Travis in Britannia Hospital, the third film in Anderson's trilogy marking the disintegration of British culture.  McDowell's film work also includes Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius, In Good Company, I Spy, Robert Altman's The Company; Robert Downey Sr.'s Hugo Pool with Sean Penn, Robert Downey Jr. and Cathy Moriarty; Just Visiting, Mr. Magoo, Hugh Hudson's My Life So Far, Blue Thunder, Neil Marshall's Doomsday in 2007, Rob Zombie's Halloween I & II, and the voice of villain, Dr. Calico, in Disney's 2008 box office hit, Bolt.  In late 2011, Malcolm was seen in the award winning silent film sensation, The Artist.  This year, fans can look forward to his appearance in such upcoming releases as Amy Heckerling's Vamps with Sigourney Weaver and Alicia Silverstone, Silent Hill Revelation: 3D, Anti-Viral from Brandon Cronenberg, as well as his on-going role as Stanton Infield in the hit TNT series "Franklin & Bash," which recently was renewed for a third season.

The sCare Foundation was created to focus on issues affecting today's youth – poverty and homelessness.  There are more than 1.6 million homeless youth in America, and an additional 5-7% become homeless in any given year.  Currently, youth in the United States are more likely to live in poverty than any other developed nation.  The goal of the sCare Foundation is to help alleviate some of these issues.

Founded by Malek Akkad, producer of the successful Halloween franchise, sCare Foundation (Suspense Community Allocating Relief and Empowerment Foundation) is a non-profit organization dedicated to alleviating the hardships of poverty and homelessness facing today's youth throughout North America.  sCare Foundation's focus will be to provide financial support to existing youth programs throughout North America, as well as arranging special sCare Foundation activities for children, such as set visits, movie screenings, celebrity meet-and-greets, and more.  In addition to working with children in need, the sCare Foundation aims to involve more young people in philanthropy and develop their passions and skills to give back to their own communities.  Honorary board members include filmmakers John Carpenter and James Wan.  sCare wholeheartedly believes that the suspense genre demographic is an untapped resource of unlimited potential in giving and changing our global community.  It can be a part of the solution.  To learn more about sCare Foundation and its Board members, go to www.scarefoundation.org.

Tickets for the event may be purchased by visiting TicketBud at sCare tickets or at Dark Delicacies (www.darkdel.com) in Burbank.  Sponsors for the 2012 Halloween Benefit Event include Anchor Bay Entertainment, Trancas Films, Compass International Pictures, Weintraub/Tobin, Rubie's Costumes, Monster Energy Drink and IRA Capital.  Sponsorship information can be obtained by contacting [email protected].

SOURCE The sCare Foundation