Leonard Maltin

Known for: Acting
Born: December 18, 1950, New York City, New York, USA
Movies: 161

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.

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Upcoming Leonard Maltin Movies

Monty and the Movies

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

6.5

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

1990

7.5

The Pixar Story

2007

6.9

Woody Allen: A Documentary

2011

7.2

Forgotten Silver

1997

7.4

These Amazing Shadows

2011

7.2

The Great Buster: A Celebration

2018

5.9

Heckler

2007

7.4

The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story

2009

7.0

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

2013

6.1

Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre

2023

Filmography

2026	Now, Irving Rapper	Self
2025	Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet	Self
2025	Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks	Self
2024	The Life and Times of Farmer Al	Self
2024	Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames	Self
2024	Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt	Self
2023	Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre	Self
2023	Dick Tracy Special: Tracy Zooms In	Self
2022	Only in Theaters	Self
2022	Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story	Self - Interviewee
2022	To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View	Self
2022	Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey
2021	Cinema's First Colors	Narrator
2021	Cinema Finds Its Voice	Narrator
2021	8 Winds	Self
2021	The Méliès Mystery	Narrator
2020	Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!	Self
2020	Adventure Thru the Walt Disney Archives	Self
2019	Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers	Self
2019	Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music	Self
2019	Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace	Himself
2019	Zsa Zsa Gabor, Königin des roten Teppichs	Himself
2019	Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film	Self
2019	Carl Laemmle	Himself
2018	The Great Buster: A Celebration	Self
2018	Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor	Himself
2017	This Is Bob Hope...	Self
2017	Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America	Self
2017	Cartoon Camera	Self (Host)
2017	John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs	Self
2016	The Marx Brothers: Hollywood's Kings of Chaos	Self
2015	Notfilm	Self
2015	Fanarchy	Self
2015	Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity	Self
2015	Women He's Undressed	Self
2015	The Three Stooges: Hey Moe! Hey Dad!	Self
2014	The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh	Self
2014	That Guy Dick Miller	Self
2013	The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz	Self
2013	Drew: The Man Behind the Poster	Self
2013	The One and Only June Foray	Self
2012	Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess	Himself
2012	Pablo	Self
2011	Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation	Himself
2011	Woody Allen: A Documentary	Self
2011	Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011	These Amazing Shadows	Self
2010	Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino	Self
2010	Searchers 2.0	Film Critic
2009	Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me	Self
2009	Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman	Self
2009	The Anatomy of Vince Guaraldi	Self
2009	Vittorio D.	Self
2009	1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year	Self
2009	Dick Tracy Special	Himself
2009	The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story	Self
2009	The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached	Self
2009	No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos	Self
2009	Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer	Self
2008	The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics	Self
2008	Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930	Self
2008	Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film	Self
2008	Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story	Himself
2008	Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood	Self
2008	Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood	Self
2007	Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story	Self
2007	Heckler	Self
2007	Bloodsucking Cinema	Self
2007	The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk	Self
2007	The Pixar Story	Self
2007	Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920	Himself
2007	Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein	Self
2006	My Dad, Walt Disney
2006	Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride	Self
2006	American Scary	Himself
2006	Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'	Self
2006	The Sci-Fi Boys	Self
2005	Alice's Cartoon World: An Interview with Virginia Davis
2005	From Kansas City to Hollywood	Self
2005	They Can't Take That Away from Me: The Music of 'Shall We Dance'	Himself
2005	Reunited at MGM: Astaire and Rogers Together Again	Self / historian and film critic
2005	William Powell: A True Gentleman
2005	Alias Nick and Nora	Self
2005	Remembering Harold	Himself
2004	The Man Behind the Duck	Self
2004	Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin	Self
2004	A Conversation with Roy Disney
2004	The Voice Behind the Mouse	Himself
2004	Mickey's Cartoon Comeback	Himself
2004	A Conversation with Joe Grant	Himself
2004	Marty Sklar, Walt, and EPCOT	Leonard Maltin
2003	Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years	Self
2003	Bob Hope: The Road to Laughter	Himself
2003	A Love Story: The Story of 'To Have and Have Not'	Self
2003	Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers: The Story of 'Dark Passage'	Self
2003	Curtains for Roy Earle	Self
2003	Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes	Himself
2003	Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'	Self
2003	Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second	Self
2003	Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'	Self, Film Historian
2003	Divided Highway: The Story of 'They Drive by Night'	Self
2002	Frank and Ollie... and Mickey	Leonard Maltin
2002	Studio Tour	self
2002	Cinerama Adventure	Self
2002	John Ford Goes to War	Self - Interviewee
2001	The Crockett Craze
2001	A Conversation with Fess Parker	Host
2001	The Omen Legacy	Self
2001	Celebrating Dumbo	Self
2001	Drive-In Movie Memories
2001	Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored	Self
2001	Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'	Self / Interviewer
2001	Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin	Narrator
2001	Songs of the Silly Symphonies
2000	The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature	Self
2000	The Fantasia Legacy: Fantasia Continued	Self
2000	Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation	Self
2000	Mary Pickford: A Life on Film	Self
2000	Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood	Self
2000	Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies	Self
2000	Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints	Self
1999	The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story	Himself
1999	Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl	Self - Film Critic and Historian
1999	Keepers of the Frame	Himself
1998	Junket Whore	Self
1998	Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane	Self
1997	The Secrets of 007	Self
1997	Walt Disney's 'The Jungle Book': The Making of a Musical Masterpiece	Self
1997	Once Upon a Dream: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty'	Self - Film Historian
1997	Forgotten Silver	Self
1997	Frank Capra's American Dream	Self (voice)
1997	The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'	Self
1995	James Dean and Me	Self (uncredited)
1994	Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill	Self
1994	Leonard Maltin's Animation Favorites from the Film Board of Canada
1993	Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star	Himself
1993	The Making of 'Rio Grande'	Self
1993	Cliffhangers: Adventures from the Thrill Factory	Host
1992	Cartoon Madness: The Fantastic Max Fleischer Cartoons	Self
1992	The Magical World of Chuck Jones	Self
1992	The Making of High Noon	Self - Presenter
1992	The Making of 'The Quiet Man'	Host
1990	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Leonard Maltin
1990	The Lost Stooges	Self
1989	Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons	Himself
1986	W.C. Fields: Straight Up	Self
1985	Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage	Self
1984	The Making of the Stooges	Self
1930	Animators At Play	Narrator

Directing, Writing & Producing

2004	The Man Behind the Duck	Writer, Producer
2004	The Voice Behind the Mouse	Writer, Producer
2004	Mickey's Cartoon Comeback	Writer
2004	A Conversation with John Hench	Writer, Producer
2004	A Conversation with Joe Grant	Screenplay, Producer
2002	Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story	Writer
1993	The Making of 'Rio Grande'	Writer
1993	Cliffhangers: Adventures from the Thrill Factory	Writer
1992	Cartoon Madness: The Fantastic Max Fleischer Cartoons	Producer, Writer
1992	The Making of High Noon	Producer, Writer
1992	The Making of 'The Quiet Man'	Writer, Producer
1991	Fantasia: The Making of a Masterpiece	Writer

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