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Rex Harrison
Actor 1908 - 1990

Rex Harrison

Huyton, Lancashire, England, UK

Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990) was an English actor.

Filmography

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28 titles
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

1986

Story of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the only surviving daughter of the Czar and Czarina of Russia.

A Time to Die

A Time to Die

Joe Tornatore, Matt Cimber 1982 1h 31m 4.0

A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian who committed the atrocities. He is aided by a CIA operative, who has another agenda. One of the targeted men is being groomed by the US to become the West German chancellor and is to be protected.

Ashanti

Ashanti

Richard Fleischer 1979 1h 58m 3.5

Dr. Anansa Linderby (Beverly Johnson) is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.

Crossed Swords

Crossed Swords

Richard Fleischer 1977 1h 53m

Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Ernest Borgnine, George C. Scott, Rex Harrison, David Hemmings and Charlton Heston costar in this dazzling adventure film adapted from Mark Twain's classic, The Prince and the Pauper.

The Honey Pot

The Honey Pot

Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1967 2h 5m 7.4

In Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy exes into thinking he's dying and leaving his fortune to one of them.

Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle

Richard Fleischer 1967 2h 31m 6.0
The Agony and the Ecstasy

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Carol Reed 1965 2h 18m 6.0

The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Anthony Asquith 1964 2h 2m 7.0

A classic car changes the lives of three sets of owners.

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

George Cukor 1964 2h 53m 7.8

In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.

Cleopatra

Cleopatra

Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1963 4h 11m 6.7
The Happy Thieves

The Happy Thieves

George Marshall 1961 1h 28m

We confess! They did it! But it's how they did it that makes it so delightful!

Midnight Lace

Midnight Lace

David Miller 1960 1h 48m 6.3
The Constant Husband

The Constant Husband

Sidney Gilliat 1955 1h 28m 6.0

An Englishman wakes in a hotel bedroom suffering from amnesia and sets out to find his identity. He tracks down his wife but soon learns that the job she saw him leave for every morning did not exist.

King Richard and the Crusaders

King Richard and the Crusaders

David Butler 1954 1h 54m 4.0

Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.

The Four Poster

The Four Poster

Irving Reis 1952 1h 43m

In turn-of-the-century New York, the marriage of John and Abby Edwards unfolds over the years.

The Long Dark Hall

The Long Dark Hall

Anthony Bushell, Reginald Beck 1951 1h 26m 6.0

A devoted family man is involved with a beautiful showgirl and becomes the only suspect when someone else murders her.

Unfaithfully Yours

Unfaithfully Yours

Preston Sturges 1948 1h 45m 8.0

Sir Alfred De Carter suspects his wife of infidelity. While conducting a symphony orchestra, he imagines three different ways of dealing with the situation.

Escape

Escape

Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1948 1h 18m

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes and goes on the lam, aided by a local girl.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1947 1h 45m 9.1

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) is a romantic fantasy film starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. It is based on a 1945 novel written by Josephine Leslie under the pseudonym of R. A. Dick.

The Foxes of Harrow

The Foxes of Harrow

John M. Stahl 1947 1h 57m 6.0

An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.

Anna and the King of Siam

Anna and the King of Siam

John Cromwell 1946 2h 8m 6.0

In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.

The Rake's Progress

The Rake's Progress

Sidney Gilliat 1945 1h 40m

Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money.

I Live in Grosvenor Square

I Live in Grosvenor Square

Herbert Wilcox 1945 1h 54m 6.0

In 1943 England, an American Army Air Force gunner falls in love with a corporal in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who has long been expected to marry a British paratrooper Major, prompting him to go back to combat duty.

Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit

David Lean 1945 1h 36m 7.0

An English mystery novelist invites a medium over for dinner in the hopes of gathering enough material for his latest book, as well as exposing her as a charlatan. However, a series of incidents occur during the course of the evening, which result in a chain of supernatural events being set in motion which wreak havoc on his present marriage.

Major Barbara

Major Barbara

Gabriel Pascal 1941 2h 1m

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.

Night Train to Munich

Night Train to Munich

Carol Reed 1940 1h 36m 7.0

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.

The Citadel

The Citadel

King Vidor 1938 1h 50m 7.5

Young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor Andrew Manson arrives in Wales and takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London.

Storm in a Teacup

Storm in a Teacup

Ian Dalrymple, Victor Saville 1937 1h 27m 6.0

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

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