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Leonard Maltin

Acting

Born December 18, 1950 · New York City, New York, USA

Also known as Leonard Michael Maltin

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 Leonard Maltin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Inkpot Award · 2013
  • Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion · 2007
  • Temecula Valley International Film Festival · 2005
  • June Foray award · 2002

Filmography46 titles

BoJack Horseman

2014as Leonard Maltin (voice)

Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks

2025as Self

Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey

2022

This Is Bob Hope...

2017as Self

Drive-In Movie Memories

2001

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

2007as Self

The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story

1999as Himself

Freakazoid!

1995as Himself (voice)

Mystery Science Theater 3000

1988as Leonard Maltin

Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music

2019as Self

The Pixar Story

2007as Self

American Scary

2006as Himself

These Amazing Shadows

2011as Self

The Boys

2009as Self

Adventure Thru the Walt Disney Archives

2020as Self

The Great Buster

2018as Self

Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me

2009as Self

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

2013as Self

The Sci-Fi Boys

2006as Self

The Méliès Mystery

2021as Narrator

Pablo

2012as Self

Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film

2019as Self

Arli$$

1996as Leonard Maltin

The Dick Cavett Show

1968as Self - Guest

John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs

2017as Self

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

1990as Leonard Maltin

Eli Roth's History of Horror

2018as Self

Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace

2019as Himself

Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre

2023as Self

Searchers 2.0

2007as Film Critic

Fanarchy

2015as Self

Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane

1998as Self

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

2008as Self

Heckler

2007as Self

John Ford Goes to War

2002as Self - Interviewee

Women He's Undressed

2015as Self

Notfilm

2015as Self

Bloodsucking Cinema

2007as Self

Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein

2007as Self

The View

1997as Self

Only in Theaters

2022as Self

8 Winds

2021as Self

Carl Laemmle

2019as Himself

Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet

2025as Self

Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt

2024as Self

Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity

2015as Self