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Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin

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.

On screen

  • Now, Irving Rapper
  • Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet
  • Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks
  • Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt
  • Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
  • The Life and Times of Farmer Al
  • Dick Tracy Special: Tracy Zooms In
  • Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre
  • Only in Theaters
  • To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View
  • Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey
  • Cinema Finds Its Voice
  • Cinema's First Colors
  • 8 Winds
  • The Méliès Mystery
  • Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!
  • Adventure Thru the Walt Disney Archives
  • Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music
  • Zsa Zsa Gabor, Königin des roten Teppichs
  • Carl Laemmle
  • Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace
  • Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers
  • Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
  • The Great Buster: A Celebration
  • Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
  • Cartoon Camera
  • This Is Bob Hope...
  • Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
  • John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
  • The Marx Brothers: Hollywood's Kings of Chaos
  • Fanarchy
  • Notfilm
  • Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
  • Women He's Undressed
  • That Guy Dick Miller
  • The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh
  • The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
  • The One and Only June Foray
  • Pablo
  • Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
  • These Amazing Shadows
  • Woody Allen: A Documentary
  • Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation
  • Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino
  • No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
  • Dick Tracy Special
  • The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
  • Vittorio D.
  • 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
  • Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
  • The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
  • Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
  • Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
  • Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
  • Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
  • Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story
  • The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
  • Heckler
  • Bloodsucking Cinema
  • Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920
  • Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
  • Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein
  • The Pixar Story
  • Searchers 2.0
  • The Sci-Fi Boys
  • American Scary
  • My Dad, Walt Disney
  • Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
  • Alice's Cartoon World: An Interview with Virginia Davis
  • From Kansas City to Hollywood
  • William Powell: A True Gentleman
  • A Conversation with Roy Disney
  • The Man Behind the Duck
  • Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin
  • The Voice Behind the Mouse
  • Mickey's Cartoon Comeback
  • A Conversation with Joe Grant
  • Marty Sklar, Walt, and EPCOT
  • Curtains for Roy Earle
  • Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'
  • Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
  • A Love Story: The Story of 'To Have and Have Not'
  • Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
  • Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes
  • Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers: The Story of 'Dark Passage'
  • Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years
  • Cinerama Adventure
  • John Ford Goes to War
  • Frank and Ollie... and Mickey
  • Studio Tour
  • Drive-In Movie Memories
  • Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'
  • A Conversation with Fess Parker
  • Songs of the Silly Symphonies
  • The Crockett Craze
  • Celebrating Dumbo
  • Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin
  • The Omen Legacy
  • Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
  • Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
  • The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature
  • The Fantasia Legacy: Fantasia Continued
  • Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
  • Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
  • Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
  • The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
  • Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
  • Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane
  • Junket Whore
  • Forgotten Silver
  • Once Upon a Dream: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty'
  • The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
  • Frank Capra's American Dream
  • The Secrets of 007
  • Walt Disney's 'The Jungle Book': The Making of a Musical Masterpiece
  • James Dean and Me
  • Leonard Maltin's Animation Favorites from the Film Board of Canada
  • Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
  • The Making of 'Rio Grande'
  • Cliffhangers: Adventures from the Thrill Factory
  • The Magical World of Chuck Jones
  • The Making of High Noon
  • Cartoon Madness: The Fantastic Max Fleischer Cartoons
  • Gremlins 2: The New Batch
  • Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons
  • W.C. Fields: Straight Up
  • Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
  • The Making of the Stooges
  • Animators At Play

Behind the camera

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

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