Education
McGill University; Bowdoin College.
McGill University; Bowdoin College.
After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1972, Dowd earned a master"s degree at McGill University and played professional hockey. Dowd appeared in the film as notorious hockey player Ogie Ogelthorpe. He continued to occasionally act until 1996, but focused his career on becoming an assistant director and eventually a line producer.
He had small parts in several films, the last being Bottle Rocket (1996), and has been a producer of such films as Last of the Mohicans (1992), Shanghai Noon (2000), Wonder Boys (2000), and Apocalypto (2006).