Leonard Maltin

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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.

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Known For

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Leonard Maltin

BoJack Horseman

Leonard Maltin (voice)

The Pixar Story

Self

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Leonard Maltin

Freakazoid!

Himself (voice)

Woody Allen: A Documentary

Self

Forgotten Silver

Self

The View

Self

Full Filmography

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

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