Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin is an American film critic, historian, and author who was born in New York City and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey. He started writing about movies as a child, edited Film Fan Monthly as a teenager, and in 1969 edited TV Movies, the book that became Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide and ran in updated editions until 2014. From 1982 to 2012 he reviewed films for Entertainment Tonight, and since 1998 he has taught at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He has written about animation and film history, hosted specials, and supplied commentary for films. The podcast Maltin on Movies began in 2014, and in 2021 he published Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood, a memoir. He led the Los Angeles Film Critics Association as president, and in 2022 the TCM Film Festival gave him the Robert Osborne Award.