Leonard Maltin
ActingBorn
December 18, 1950
Place of Birth
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 L…
Known For
Filmography
Now, Irving Rapper
2026
Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet
2025
Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks
2025
The Life and Times of Farmer Al
2024
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
2024
Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt
2024
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre
2023
Dick Tracy Special: Tracy Zooms In
2023
Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey
2022
Only in Theaters
2022
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022
To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View
2022
Cinema's First Colors
2021
Cinema Finds Its Voice
2021
8 Winds
2021
The Méliès Mystery
2021
Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!
2020
Adventure Thru the Walt Disney Archives
2020
Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers
2019
Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music
2019
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace
2019
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Königin des roten Teppichs
2019
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
2019
Carl Laemmle
2019
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
2018
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
Cartoon Camera
2017
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
The Marx Brothers: Hollywood's Kings of Chaos
2016
Notfilm
2015
Fanarchy
2015
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
2015
Women He's Undressed
2015
The Three Stooges: Hey Moe! Hey Dad!
2015
The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh
2014
That Guy Dick Miller
2014
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2013
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
2013
The One and Only June Foray
2013
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
Pablo
2012
Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation
2011
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011
These Amazing Shadows
2011
Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino
2010
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
2009
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
2009
The Anatomy of Vince Guaraldi
2009
Vittorio D.
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
Dick Tracy Special
2009
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
2009
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
2009
Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer
2009
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
2008
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
2008
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
2008
Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story
2008
Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood
2008
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007
Heckler
2007
Bloodsucking Cinema
2007
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
2007
Searchers 2.0
2007
The Pixar Story
2007
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920
2007
Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein
2007
My Dad, Walt Disney
2006
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006
American Scary
2006
Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
2006
The Sci-Fi Boys
2006
Alice's Cartoon World: An Interview with Virginia Davis
2005
From Kansas City to Hollywood
2005
Behind the Tunes: Tish Tash - The Animated World of Frank Tashlin
2005
Behind the Tunes: Looney Tunes Go to War!
2005
Behind the Tunes: Bosko, Buddy and the Best of Black and White
2005
They Can't Take That Away from Me: The Music of 'Shall We Dance'
2005
Reunited at MGM: Astaire and Rogers Together Again
2005
William Powell: A True Gentleman
2005
Remembering Harold
2005
The Man Behind the Duck
2004
It Hopped One Night: A Look at ‘One Froggy Evening’
2004
Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin
2004
A Conversation with Roy Disney
2004
The Voice Behind the Mouse
2004
Mickey's Cartoon Comeback
2004
A Conversation with Joe Grant
2004
Marty Sklar, Walt, and EPCOT
2004
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years
2003
Bob Hope: The Road to Laughter
2003
A Love Story: The Story of 'To Have and Have Not'
2003
Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers: The Story of 'Dark Passage'
2003
Curtains for Roy Earle
2003
Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes
2003
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
2003
Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'
2003
Divided Highway: The Story of 'They Drive by Night'
2003
Frank and Ollie... and Mickey
2002
Studio Tour
2002
Cinerama Adventure
2002
John Ford Goes to War
2002
The Crockett Craze
2001
A Conversation with Fess Parker
2001
The Omen Legacy
2001
Celebrating Dumbo
2001
Drive-In Movie Memories
2001
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
2001
Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'
2001
Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin
2001
Songs of the Silly Symphonies
2001
The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature
2000
The Fantasia Legacy: Fantasia Continued
2000
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
2000
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
2000
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
2000
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
2000
The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
1999
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
Keepers of the Frame
1999
Junket Whore
1998
Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane
1998
The Secrets of 007
1997
Walt Disney's 'The Jungle Book': The Making of a Musical Masterpiece
1997
Forgotten Silver
1997
Once Upon a Dream: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty'
1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
1997
James Dean and Me
1995
Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
1994
Leonard Maltin's Animation Favorites from the Film Board of Canada
1994
Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star
1993
The Making of 'Rio Grande'
1993
Cliffhangers: Adventures from the Thrill Factory
1993
Cartoon Madness: The Fantastic Max Fleischer Cartoons
1992
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992
The Making of High Noon
1992
The Making of 'The Quiet Man'
1992
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
The Lost Stooges
1990
Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons
1989
W.C. Fields: Straight Up
1986
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
1985
The Making of the Stooges
1984
The Invention of Cinema: Cinema's First Colors
Behind the Tunes: Short Fuse Shootout: The Small Tale of Yosemite Sam
Behind the Tunes: Forever Befuddled
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
BoJack Horseman
2014
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010
Maltin on Movies
2010
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
2009
The Annie Awards
2005
Good Day Live
2001
The View
1997
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Arli$$
1996
Freakazoid!
1995
Mystery Science Theater 3000
1989
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Entertainment Tonight
1981
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Omnibus
1967
Davy Crockett
1954