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Leonard Maltin
Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin

Acting•Born December 18, 1950 (age 75)•New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic and film historian, as well as an author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives. He is best known for his eponymous annual book of movie capsule reviews, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, which was published annually from 1969 to 2014. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leonard Maltin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The View

The View

1997•TV Series•
4.4
BoJack Horseman

BoJack Horseman

2014•TV Series•
8.5
Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000

1989•TV Series•
7.7
The Dick Cavett Show

The Dick Cavett Show

1968•TV Series•
6.8
Omnibus

Omnibus

1967•TV Series•
7.2
Arli$$

Arli$$

1996•TV Series•
6.8
Freakazoid!

Freakazoid!

1995•TV Series•
7.8
Entertainment Tonight

Entertainment Tonight

1981•TV Series•
4.3

Filmography

2026
Now, Irving Rapper

as Self

Movie
2025
Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet

as Self

Movie
2025
Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks

as Self

Movie
2024
The Life and Times of Farmer Al

as Self

Movie
2024
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames

as Self

Movie
2024
Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt

as Self

Movie
2023
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre

as Self

Movie
2023
100 Years of Warner Bros.

as Self

TV
2023
Dick Tracy Special: Tracy Zooms In

as Self

Movie
2022
Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey
Movie
2022
Only in Theaters

as Self

Movie
2022
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

as Self - Interviewee

Movie
2022
To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View

as Self

Movie
2021
Cinema's First Colors

as Narrator

Movie
2021
Cinema Finds Its Voice

as Narrator

Movie
2021
8 Winds

as Self

Movie
2021
The Méliès Mystery

as Narrator

Movie
2020
Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!

as Self

Movie
2020
Adventure Thru the Walt Disney Archives

as Self

Movie
2019
Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers

as Self

Movie
2019
Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music

as Self

Movie
2019
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace

as Himself

Movie
2019
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Königin des roten Teppichs

as Himself

Movie
2019
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film

as Self

Movie
2019
Carl Laemmle

as Himself

Movie
2018
Eli Roth's History of Horror

as Self

TV
2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration

as Self

Movie
2018
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor

as Himself

Movie
2017
This Is Bob Hope...

as Self

Movie
2017
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America

as Self

Movie
2017
Cartoon Camera

as Self (Host)

Movie
2017
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs

as Self

Movie
2016
The Marx Brothers: Hollywood's Kings of Chaos

as Self

Movie
2015
Notfilm

as Self

Movie
2015
Fanarchy

as Self

Movie
2015
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity

as Self

Movie
2015
Women He's Undressed

as Self

Movie
2015
The Three Stooges: Hey Moe! Hey Dad!

as Self

Movie
2014
The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh

as Self

Movie
2014
BoJack Horseman

as Leonard Maltin (voice)

TV
2014
That Guy Dick Miller

as Self

Movie
2013
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz

as Self

Movie
2013
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

as Self

Movie
2013
The One and Only June Foray

as Self

Movie
2012
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess

as Himself

Movie
2012
Pablo

as Self

Movie
2011
Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation

as Himself

Movie
2011
Woody Allen: A Documentary

as Self

Movie
2011
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
Movie
2011
These Amazing Shadows

as Self

Movie
2010
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood

as Self

TV
2010
Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino

as Self

Movie
2010
Maltin on Movies
TV
2009
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me

as Self

Movie
2009
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman

as Self

Movie
2009
The Anatomy of Vince Guaraldi

as Self

Movie
2009
Vittorio D.

as Self

Movie
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

as Self

Movie
2009
Dick Tracy Special

as Himself

Movie
2009
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story

as Self

Movie
2009
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached

as Self

Movie
2009
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America

as Self - Film Critic and Historian

TV
2009
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

as Self

Movie
2009
Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer

as Self

Movie
2008
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics

as Self

Movie
2008
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930

as Self

Movie
2008
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

as Self

Movie
2008
Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story

as Himself

Movie
2008
Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood

as Self

Movie
2008
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

as Self

Movie
2007
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

as Self

Movie
2007
Heckler

as Self

Movie
2007
Bloodsucking Cinema

as Self

Movie
2007
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

as Self

Movie
2007
Searchers 2.0

as Film Critic

Movie
2007
The Pixar Story

as Self

Movie
2007
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920

as Himself

Movie
2007
Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein

as Self

Movie
2006
My Dad, Walt Disney
Movie
2006
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

as Self

Movie
2006
American Scary

as Himself

Movie
2006
Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'

as Self

Movie
2006
The Sci-Fi Boys

as Self

Movie
2005
Alice's Cartoon World: An Interview with Virginia Davis
Movie
2005
From Kansas City to Hollywood

as Self

Movie
2005
They Can't Take That Away from Me: The Music of 'Shall We Dance'

as Himself

Movie
2005
Reunited at MGM: Astaire and Rogers Together Again

as Self / historian and film critic

Movie
2005
William Powell: A True Gentleman
Movie
2005
The Annie Awards

as Self - Host

TV
2005
Remembering Harold

as Himself

Movie
2004
The Man Behind the Duck

as Self

Movie
2004
Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin

as Self

Movie
2004
A Conversation with Roy Disney
Movie
2004
The Voice Behind the Mouse

as Himself

Movie
2004
Mickey's Cartoon Comeback

as Himself

Movie
2004
A Conversation with Joe Grant

as Himself

Movie
2004
Marty Sklar, Walt, and EPCOT

as Leonard Maltin

Movie
2003
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years

as Self

Movie
2003
Bob Hope: The Road to Laughter

as Himself

Movie
2003
A Love Story: The Story of 'To Have and Have Not'

as Self

Movie
2003
Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers: The Story of 'Dark Passage'

as Self

Movie
2003
Curtains for Roy Earle

as Self

Movie
2003
Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes

as Himself

Movie
2003
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

as Self

Movie
2003
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

as Self

Movie
2003
Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'

as Self, Film Historian

Movie
2003
Divided Highway: The Story of 'They Drive by Night'

as Self

Movie
2002
Frank and Ollie... and Mickey

as Leonard Maltin

Movie
2002
Studio Tour

as self

Movie
2002
Cinerama Adventure

as Self

Movie
2002
John Ford Goes to War

as Self - Interviewee

Movie
2001
The Crockett Craze
Movie
2001
A Conversation with Fess Parker

as Host

Movie
2001
The Omen Legacy

as Self

Movie
2001
Celebrating Dumbo

as Self

Movie
2001
Good Day Live

as Self

TV
2001
Drive-In Movie Memories
Movie
2001
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored

as Self

Movie
2001
Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'

as Self / Interviewer

Movie
2001
Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin

as Narrator

Movie
2001
Songs of the Silly Symphonies
Movie
2000
The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature

as Self

Movie
2000
The Fantasia Legacy: Fantasia Continued

as Self

Movie
2000
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

as Self

Movie
2000
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

as Self

Movie
2000
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood

as Self

Movie
2000
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies

as Self

Movie
2000
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints

as Self

Movie
1999
The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story

as Himself

Movie
1999
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl

as Self - Film Critic and Historian

Movie
1999
Keepers of the Frame

as Himself

Movie
1998
Junket Whore

as Self

Movie
1998
Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane

as Self

Movie
1997
The Secrets of 007

as Self

Movie
1997
Walt Disney's 'The Jungle Book': The Making of a Musical Masterpiece

as Self

Movie
1997
Forgotten Silver

as Self

Movie
1997
Once Upon a Dream: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty'

as Self - Film Historian

Movie
1997
The View

as Self

TV
1997
Frank Capra's American Dream

as Self (voice)

Movie
1997
The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'

as Self

Movie
1996
E! True Hollywood Story
TV
1996
Arli$$

as Leonard Maltin

TV
1995
Freakazoid!

as Himself (voice)

TV
1995
James Dean and Me

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
1994
Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill

as Self

Movie
1994
Leonard Maltin's Animation Favorites from the Film Board of Canada
Movie
1993
Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star

as Himself

Movie
1993
The Making of 'Rio Grande'

as Self

Movie
1993
Cliffhangers: Adventures from the Thrill Factory

as Host

Movie
1992
Cartoon Madness: The Fantastic Max Fleischer Cartoons

as Self

Movie
1992
The Magical World of Chuck Jones

as Self

Movie
1992
The Making of High Noon

as Self - Presenter

Movie
1992
The Making of 'The Quiet Man'

as Host

Movie
1990
Gremlins 2: The New Batch

as Leonard Maltin

Movie
1990
The Lost Stooges

as Self

Movie
1989
Mystery Science Theater 3000

as Leonard Maltin

TV
1989
Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons

as Himself

Movie
1986
W.C. Fields: Straight Up

as Self

Movie
1985
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage

as Self

Movie
1984
The Making of the Stooges

as Self

Movie
1981
Entertainment Tonight
TV
1981
Entertainment Tonight

as Self

TV
1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

TV
1967
Omnibus
TV
1954
Davy Crockett

as DVD Release Host

TV
—
The Invention of Cinema: Cinema's First Colors

as Narrator

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayDecember 18, 1950
Place of BirthNew York City, New York, USA
Popularity0.7