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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

Cloris Leachman - filmography


  • Ponyo on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Cate Blanchett,  Yuria Nara,  Noah Cyrus
    Director: Hayao Miyazaki
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Acclaimed anime master Hayao Miyazaki (SPIRITED AWAY) returns for his ninth animated feature with PONYO, which deals with a friendship between a five-year-old boy and a goldfish princess who yearns to be human. The daughter of the king of the ocean, Ponyo is no ordinary goldfish -- she has all the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 10,302 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.
    5 stars out of 5 100% from 1 member
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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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  • 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 23,790 members
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  • The Women - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Annette Bening,  Meg Ryan,  Eva Mendes
    Director: Diane English
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Packed with an all-star cast, Diane English's (MURPHY BROWN) contemporary version of THE WOMEN showcases the talents of Annette Bening, Meg Ryan, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen, and Debra Messing. Like the 1939 original, the film deals with the relationships among a close-knit group of female ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 401 members
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  • Ponyo - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Cate Blanchett,  Yuria Nara,  Noah Cyrus
    Director: Hayao Miyazaki
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Acclaimed anime master Hayao Miyazaki (SPIRITED AWAY) returns for his ninth animated feature with PONYO, which deals with a friendship between a five-year-old boy and a goldfish princess who yearns to be human. The daughter of the king of the ocean, Ponyo is no ordinary goldfish -- she has all the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 3,885 members
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  • Beerfest on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Erik Stolhanske,  Paul Soter,  Jay Chandrasekhar
    Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    The Broken Lizard comedy group returns to the big screen in a comedy that proves revenge, like beer, is best served cold. When American brothers Todd and Jan Wolfhouse (Erik Stolhanske and Paul Soter) are sent to Germany on a mission to spread their grandfather's ashes at Oktoberfest, they stumble ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 6,084 members
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  • Beerfest - HD (2006)
    Starring: Erik Stolhanske,  Paul Soter,  Jay Chandrasekhar
    Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    With a title that insures against accusations of false advertising, BEERFEST is a raunchy and genial amalgamation of ANIMAL HOUSE, STRANGE BREW, FIGHT CLUB, and every cliched sports film ever made. Written by and starring comedy troupe Broken Lizard (SUPER TROOPERS, CLUB DREAD) and directed by ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 156 members
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  • Spanglish on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Adam Sandler,  Tea Leoni,  Paz Vega
    Director: James L. Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    With SPANGLISH, writer/director/producer James L. Brooks (AS GOOD AS IT GETS) unfurls yet another accomplished, tender, romantic comedy. Celebrated chef John Clasky (Adam Sandler) is the patriarch of the Clasky household, but the mood swings of his hypersensitive wife, Deborah (Tea Leoni), are what ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 27,334 members
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  • The Animal on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Rob Schneider,  Edward Asner,  Cloris Leachman
    Director: Luke Greenfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Marvin Mange (Rob Schneider) has only one dream in life--to become a police officer, like his father. Unfortunately, Marvin's natural clumsiness and lack of self-esteem have made him the laughing stock of his police coworkers. All of that changes after a freak car accident, and a mad scientist's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 4,865 members
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  • Hanging Up on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Meg Ryan,  Diane Keaton,  Lisa Kudrow
    Director: Diane Keaton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Daddy's favorite daughter is over-extended in this Diane Keaton-directed comedy about loving, laughing, and learning to let go. Meg Ryan plays party-planner Eve, a streched-too-thin mother, wife, sister, and dutiful daughter. Eve's harried life has become even more complicated by her reliance on ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 1,006 member
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  • Prancer on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Sam Elliott,  Cloris Leachman,  Abe Vigoda
    Director: John Hancock
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A motherless young girl living with her father on a failing farm finds herself inspired by her belief in Santa Claus and his flying reindeer. When she discovers that a real reindeer has fallen into ill health, she nurses it back to its prime, believing it is the actual Prancer, so she can return it ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 295 members
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  • Laputa Castle In The Sky on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Keiko Yokozawa,  Mayumi Tanaka,  Fujio Tokita
    Director: Hayao Miyazaki
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The magic touch of master animator Hayao Miyazaki is visible from start to finish in Laputa: Castle In the Sky, an imaginative tale full of mystery and adventure. The high-flying journey begins when Pazu, an engineer's apprentice, finds a young girl, Sheeta, floating down from the sky, wearing a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 12,316 members
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  • History Of The World - Part 1 on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Pamela Stephenson,  Dom DeLuise,  Madeline Kahn
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this spoof of great moments in history from the dawn of humanity through the French Revolution, director Mel Brooks delivers a twisted history lesson through his signature satirical, madcap humour. Funny, vulgar, and narrated by the great Orson Welles, 'History Of The World - Part I', tells the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,471 member
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  • High Anxiety on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Madeline Kahn,  Cloris Leachman,  Harvey Korman
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this perceptive, sidesplitting homage to Hichcock films, director, star, and writer Mel Brooks plays the average American guy, psychiatrist Richard Thorndyke (as in Roger Thorndike, Cary Grant's character in NORTH BY NORTHWEST), who's terrified of heights (think VERTIGO). He becomes the new ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 967 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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  • Young Frankenstein on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Gene Wilder,  Peter Boyle,  Marty Feldman
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An affectionate parody that pays homage to the FRANKENSTEIN films (from the novel FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley) directed by James Whale in the 1930s, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is both a zany comedy and cinematic tour de force. Written by director Mel Brooks and the star of the film, Gene Wilder, YOUNG ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 7,016 members
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  • Daisy Miller on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Cybill Shepherd,  Cloris Leachman,  Barry Brown
    Director: Peter Bogdanovich
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Cybill Shepherd stars as Daisy Miller, a beautiful, young American being introduced into European society in the 1800s, whose headstrong ways end in tragedy. Frederick Winterbourne (Barry Brown) is immediately drawn to the fetching Daisy, though her youthful high spirits and American frankness ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 104 members
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  • Dillinger on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Warren Oates,  Ben Johnson,  Michelle Phillips
    Director: John Milius
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The first feature film from man's man director Milius is a violent, hard-hitting account of Public Enemy #1, John Dillinger. The last half of his criminal career is dramatically retold until his notorious finale outside the Biograph Theatre.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 340 members
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  • The Last Picture Show on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Cybill Shepherd,  Jeff Bridges,  Timothy Bottoms
    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 70% from 4,484 members
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Cloris Leachman facts

5 most recent films

Ponyo - 3.5 stars
Expecting Mary - 5.0 stars
Raising Hope - 4.5 stars
American Cowslip - 3.0 stars
The Women - 2.5 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
Laputa Castle In The Sky - 4.0 stars
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Crazy Mama - 2.0 stars
American Cowslip - 3.0 stars
Expecting Mary - 5.0 stars
Daisy Miller - 2.5 stars
Hanging Up - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Strother Martin - 5 times - show films
Paul Newman - 5 times - show films
Katharine Ross - 5 times - show films
Robert Redford - 5 times - show films
Madeline Kahn - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

George Roy Hill - 5 times - show films
Hayao Miyazaki - 4 times - show films
Jay Chandrasekhar - 3 times - show films
Mel Brooks - 3 times - show films
Robert L. Rosen - 3 times - show films