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Leonard Maltin
Born: 1950-12-18 in New York City, New York, USA
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.
Rated Filmography (112)
Sorted by Score10.0
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2013
10.0
The Man Behind the Duck
2004
10.0
Cartoon Madness: The Fantastic Max Fleischer Cartoons
1992
9.0
W.C. Fields: Straight Up
1986
9.0
The Making of the Stooges
1984
9.0
Frank and Ollie... and Mickey
2002
9.0
The Voice Behind the Mouse
2004
9.0
Mickey's Cartoon Comeback
2004
9.0
A Conversation with Joe Grant
2004
9.0
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
2000
9.0
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
2000
8.8
James Dean and Me
1995
8.7
Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons
1989
8.5
A Conversation with Roy Disney
2004
8.5
Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino
2010
8.4
Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers
2019
8.3
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
8.0
Once Upon a Dream: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty'
1997
8.0
Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!
2020
8.0
Drive-In Movie Memories
2001
8.0
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992
8.0
Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'
2001
8.0
A Conversation with Fess Parker
2001
8.0
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
2024
8.0
Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey
2022
8.0
Celebrating Dumbo
2001
8.0
A Love Story: The Story of 'To Have and Have Not'
2003
8.0
The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature
2000
8.0
Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes
2003
8.0
Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers: The Story of 'Dark Passage'
2003
8.0
Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks
2025
8.0
Walt Disney's 'The Jungle Book': The Making of a Musical Masterpiece
1997
7.9
The Secrets of 007
1997
7.8
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007
7.7
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
2000
7.7
Cinerama Adventure
2002
7.7
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
7.6
Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music
2019
7.6
The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
1999
7.5
The Pixar Story
2007
7.5
American Scary
2006
7.5
William Powell: A True Gentleman
2005
7.5
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
7.5
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
2009
7.5
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
7.4
These Amazing Shadows
2011
7.4
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003
7.4
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009
7.3
The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
1997
7.3
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
2008
7.3
The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh
2014
7.3
Adventure Thru the Walt Disney Archives
2020
7.2
Forgotten Silver
1997
7.2
The Marx Brothers: Hollywood's Kings of Chaos
2016
7.2
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
7.2
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
2009
7.2
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006
7.1
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
7.0
Cinema Finds Its Voice
2021
7.0
The Sci-Fi Boys
2006
7.0
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
2000
7.0
Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'
2003
7.0
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
2013
7.0
Marty Sklar, Walt, and EPCOT
2004
7.0
Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story
2008
7.0
The Omen Legacy
2001
7.0
Alias Nick and Nora
2005
7.0
That Guy Dick Miller
2014
6.9
Pablo
2012
6.9
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
2008
6.9
The Méliès Mystery
2021
6.9
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
6.8
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
2019
6.8
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
6.7
The Making of High Noon
1992
6.6
Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin
2001
6.5
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
6.5
The Crockett Craze
2001
6.5
Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin
2004
6.5
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years
2003
6.3
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace
2019
6.3
Vittorio D.
2009
6.3
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
6.3
Songs of the Silly Symphonies
2001
6.2
Searchers 2.0
2007
6.1
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre
2023
6.1
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
6.0
Dick Tracy Special: Tracy Zooms In
2023
6.0
Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane
1998
6.0
Alice's Cartoon World: An Interview with Virginia Davis
2005
6.0
From Kansas City to Hollywood
2005
6.0
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
2009
6.0
Fanarchy
2015
6.0
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
6.0
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Königin des roten Teppichs
2019
6.0
Studio Tour
2002
5.9
Heckler
2007
5.7
Bloodsucking Cinema
2007
5.6
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
2009
5.5
John Ford Goes to War
2002
5.5
Junket Whore
1998
5.4
Women He's Undressed
2015
5.3
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
2003
5.0
Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein
2007
5.0
Notfilm
2015
5.0
Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation
2011
5.0
The Making of 'Rio Grande'
1993
4.4
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
2018
4.2
Only in Theaters
2022
4.0
8 Winds
2021
4.0
Dick Tracy Special
2009
4.0
Carl Laemmle
2019