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  • Leachman set for Hollywood honour - 12 April 2009
    -Oscar winner Cloris Leachman is to be honoured by Hollywood's top businessmen at a gala next week (17Apr09).- -The Young Frankenstein star, 82, will be handed a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce at its 88th Annual Installation & Awards Lu

Cloris Leachman - what members say


  • The Last Picture Show
  • The Last Picture Show review by from the middle of Dorset
    Rated - 4.0 stars Well acted and nostalgic teen drama 1 February 2005
    ...ised in my opinion, but that doesn't mean it isn't a significant achievement. Cloris Leachman and Ben Johnson won Oscars for their performances, but I think Timothy Bottoms ...   Read customer review
  • High Anxiety
  • High Anxiety review by Greenfingersjake from Milton Keynes
    Rated - 3.0 stars High Anxiety 21 June 2010
    ...t as his Hichcockian icy blonde love interest, Victoria Brisbane. It is perhaps Cloris Leachman, though, who is at her most deviantly funny as Nurse Diesel a kind of cross bet...   Read customer review

Cloris Leachman - filmography


  • The Croods (2013)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Ryan Reynolds,  Emma Stone
    Director: Chris Sanders
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world's first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled with ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 256 members
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  • Gambit - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Cameron Diaz,  Alan Rickman
    Director: Michael Hoffman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz star in this remake of the 1966 romantic comedy caper. Penned by the Coen brothers, the film follows London art curator Harry Deane (Firth) as he sets out to get revenge on his wealthy ex-employer Lionel Shahbandar (Alan Rickman) for years of humiliation and contempt. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,029 member
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  • Gambit on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Cameron Diaz,  Alan Rickman
    Director: Michael Hoffman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz star in this remake of the 1966 romantic comedy caper. Penned by the Coen brothers, the film follows London art curator Harry Deane (Firth) as he sets out to get revenge on his wealthy ex-employer Lionel Shahbandar (Alan Rickman) for years of humiliation and contempt. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 2,176 members
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  • Expecting Mary (2010)
    Starring: Elliott Gould,  Linda Gray,  Lainie Kazan
    Director: Dan Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Expecting Mary is the story of a young girl, who's had all the trappings of an upscale life, but it's only when she finds herself in a small New Mexico town, in a downtrodden trailer park, that she learns the real meaning of love, sacrifice and family.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3 members
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  • American Cowslip (2009)
    Starring: Rip Torn,  Bruce Dern,  Diane Ladd
    Director: Mark David
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Trapped in small-town California USA, Ethan Inglebrink is searching for the perfect moment in a life that is running out of time. And the odds are against him. Ethan is an agoraphobic, drug addict obsessed with his garden. Ethan's neighbor, landlord and maniacal high school football coach Trevor O'..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 3 members
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  • Ponyo on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Cate Blanchett,  Yuria Nara,  Noah Cyrus
    Director: Hayao Miyazaki
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Animated adventure by the Japanese anime studio Studio Ghibli, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's story 'The Little Mermaid'. When a feisty baby goldfish/mermaid called Ponyo (voiced by Noah Lindsey Cyrus) runs away from her home in the sea, she ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 11,780 members
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  • Ponyo - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Cate Blanchett,  Yuria Nara,  Noah Cyrus
    Director: Hayao Miyazaki
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Animated adventure by the Japanese anime studio Studio Ghibli, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's story 'The Little Mermaid'. When a feisty baby goldfish/mermaid called Ponyo (voiced by Noah Lindsey Cyrus) runs away from her home in the sea, she ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 74% from 4,512 members
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  • The Women on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Annette Bening,  Meg Ryan,  Eva Mendes
    Director: Diane English
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 24,663 members
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  • The Women - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Lynn Whitfield,  Eva Mendes,  Ana Gasteyer
    Director: Diane English
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Comedy based on the 1939 film directed by George Cukor. Meg Ryan star as Mary Haines, a New York clothing designer who seems to have it all: a beautiful designer home, a rich financier husband, an adorable eleven-year-old daughter (India Ennenga) and glamorous friends in high places. But when Mary ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 496 members
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  • Beerfest on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Steve Lemme,  Paul Soter,  Jay Chandrasekhar
    Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Outrageous comedy about two American brothers, Todd (Erik Stolhanske) and Jan (Paul Soter) Wolfhouse, who are sent to Germany on a mission to spread their grandfather's ashes at Oktoberfest. There they stumble upon a super-secret, centuries-old underground beer games competition, Beerfest - the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 6,886 members
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  • Spanglish on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Victoria Luna,  Shelbie Bruce,  Cecilia Suarez
    Director: James L. Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Comedy from acclaimed multiple Oscar-winning writer/director/producer James L. Brooks. A beautiful native Mexican woman Flor (Paz Vega), the mother of an equally stunning 12-year-old, becomes the housekeeper for an affluent Los Angeles family (Adam Sandler, Tea Leoni and Anne Bancroft). Of all the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 27,752 members
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  • The Animal on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Rob Schneider,  Colleen Haskell,  Michael Caton
    Director: Luke Greenfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Marvin Mange (Rob Schneider) dreams of being a tough, heroic police officer but is too weak and wimpy to ever pass the entrance exam. However, when he is critically injured in a car accident, a mad scientist uses animal organs to rebuild his broken body, and, when he recovers, these organs give ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 5,260 members
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  • Hanging Up on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Diane Keaton,  Maree Cheatham,  Lisa Kudrow
    Director: Diane Keaton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Eve (Meg Ryan) is annoyed that her sisters Maddy (Lisa Kudrow) and Georgia (Diane Keaton) offer no help in caring for their sick father Lou (Walter Matthau). She might not get on well with the cranky old man, but at least she tries; her sisters meanwhile, they just seem caught up in their own lives,..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,181 member
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  • Danielle Steel's Fine Things on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Judith Hoag,  Noley Thornton,  D.W. Moffett
    Director: Tom Moore
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A young executive, Bernie Fine, is desperately looking for love. Although devoted to his work, he still feels unfulfilled until he meets his perfect match, a divorcee. He marries her and at the same time takes on her young daughter. All is well until the daughter's natural father arrives on the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 476 members
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  • Prancer on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Michael Constantine,  Abe Vigoda,  Sam Elliott
    Director: John Hancock
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    One week before Christmas, nine-year-old Jessie (Rebecca Harrell) discovers an injured reindeer in the woods near her home. She decides to nurse the animal back to health, despite the fact that her father is opposed to the idea. Over the next week, Jessie becomes convinced that her new friend is in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 307 members
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  • Laputa Castle In The Sky on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Fujio Tokita,  Kotoe Hatsui,  Hiroshi Ito
    Director: Hayao Miyazaki
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Hayao Miyazaki's fantasy adventure Castle in the Sky begins with a chase scene through a flying ship, where all the passengers are after the young girl, Sheeta (voice of Anna Paquin). Going overboard to avoid capture, Sheeta is rescued by her powerful crystal necklace which floats her down to ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 11,891 members
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  • History Of The World - Part 1 on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Gregory Hines,  Dom DeLuise,  Pamela Stephenson
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mel Brooks' historical parody is split into five sections: In 'The Stone Age', a caveman invents music after dropping a rock on his foot. However the development of the fine arts brings with it an unwelcome side-effect - the birth of the critic. 'The Roman Empire' sees Jesus and his disciples being ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,577 member
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  • SOS Titanic on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Jerry Houser,  Ian Holm,  Victor Langley
    Director: William Hale
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Made-for-TV drama documenting the doomed liner's maiden voyage in 1912. Viewed from the perspective of three groups of passengers in First, Second, and Third Class, and highlighting the role that class distinction played in events, the film charts the fortunes of millionaire John Jacob Astor (David ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 24 members
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  • Crazy Mama (1975)
    Starring: Cloris Leachman,  Stuart Whitman
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Jonathan Demme directs this joyous unrelentlessly kitchy celebration of 50's America: opportunity, rock'n'roll, and the road. He follows three generations of women and the men they pick up, for a crime spree from California to the old family homestead in Arkansas.
    2 stars out of 5 31% from 9 members
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  • Daisy Miller on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Cybill Shepherd,  Eileen Brennan,  Nicholas Jones
    Director: Peter Bogdanovich
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    'Daisy Miller' tells the story of a woman who is liberal for her time with regards to the opposite sex and whose behaviour scandalises the Victorian high society of the nineteenth century. Cybill Sheperd stars as the recklessly flirtatious and headstrong Daisy, an expatriate American living abroad ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 119 members
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  • Young Frankenstein on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Marty Feldman,  Gene Wilder,  Gene Hackman
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this spoof of Mary Shelley's gothic tale, the grandson of Victor Frankenstein, a neurosurgeon, has spent his life living down the legend of his grandfather, even changing the pronunciation of his name. When he discovers his grandfather's diary, he begins to feel differently, and returns to the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 7,422 members
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  • Dillinger on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Richard Dreyfuss,  Michelle Phillips,  Geoffrey Lewis
    Director: John Milius
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Warren Oates stars as John Dillinger in this account of the latter half of the notorious gangster's career up to his death in a police ambush outside the Biograph Theatre. Contains some of the most violent gunfights put on film.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 369 members
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  • The Last Picture Show on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Cybill Shepherd,  Eileen Brennan,  Randy Quaid
    Director: Peter Bogdanovich
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Produced by Hollywood iconoclast BBS Productions, film critic-turned-director Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 film pays homage to Hollywood's classical age as it chronicles generational rites of passage in Anarene, a fictional one-horse Texas town. In 1951, high school seniors Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 4,831 members
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Cloris Leachman facts

5 most recent films

The Croods - 4.0 stars
Gambit - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Gambit - 2.5 stars
The Fields - 2.0 stars
Raising Hope - 4.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Raising Hope - 4.5 stars
Laputa - Castle In The Sky - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Croods - 4.0 stars
Laputa Castle In The Sky - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Crazy Mama - 2.0 stars
SOS Titanic - 2.5 stars
American Cowslip - 3.0 stars
Expecting Mary - 3.5 stars
The Fields - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Paul Newman - 5 times - show films
Robert Redford - 5 times - show films
Strother Martin - 5 times - show films
Katharine Ross - 5 times - show films
Meg Ryan - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

George Roy Hill - 5 times - show films
Hayao Miyazaki - 4 times - show films
Michael Hoffman - 3 times - show films
Jay Chandrasekhar - 3 times - show films
Mel Brooks - 3 times - show films