Biography
Charles McDowell was an American journalist and commentator who voiced Samuel R. Watkins in Ken Burns's documentary series The Civil War (1990). He also supplied voices and served as a consultant on Burns's Baseball (1994).
Born in Danville, Kentucky, in 1926, McDowell spent nearly fifty years at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, later becoming a nationally syndicated columnist. He was a regular panellist on the PBS programme Washington Week in Review for eighteen years from 1978 and contributed to other PBS productions, including as writer, narrator and host of Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings.
McDowell died in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 2010.
