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Rex Harrison

Rex Harrison

Highest Rated:
100% The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Lowest Rated:
32% Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Birthday:
Mar 5, 1908
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
Debonair and distinguished British star of stage and screen for more than 50 years, Sir Rex Harrison is best remembered for playing charming, slyly mischievous characters. Born Reginald Carey in 1908, he made his theatrical debut at age 16 with the Liverpool Repertory Theater, remaining with that…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 32% - 100%
Number of Movies: 45
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 Cleopatra 50th Anniversary
  • Actor
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2007 Essential Classic Musicals
  • Actor
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2006 Kingfisher
  • Actor
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1995 The Rake's Progress
  • Actor
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1986 Heartbreak House
  • Shotover
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1986 Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
  • Grand Duke Cyril Romanov
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1983 Time to Die
  • Von Osten
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1982 The Kingfisher
  • Sir Cecil Warburton
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1979 Ashanti
  • Brian Walker
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1979 The Fifth Musketeer (Behind the Iron Mask) (The 5th Musketeer)
  • Colbert
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1978 Shalimar (Deadly Thief) (Raiders of the Sacred Stone)
  • Actor
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1977 Crossed Swords (The Prince and the Pauper)
  • Norfolk
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1969 Staircase
  • Charlie
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1967 A Flea In Her Ear
  • Victor Chandebisse/Poche
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1967 The Honey Pot
  • Cecil Fox
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1967 32% Doctor Dolittle
  • Dr. John Dolittle
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1965 100% The Agony and the Ecstasy
  • Pope Julius II
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1965 Yellow Rolls Royce
  • Actor
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1964 95% My Fair Lady
  • Prof. Henry Higgins
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1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce
  • Marquess of Frinton
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1963 38% Cleopatra
  • Julius Caesar
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1962 The Happy Thieves
  • Jim Bourne
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1960 Midnight Lace
  • Tony Preston
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1958 The Reluctant Debutante
  • Jimmy Broadbent
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1955 The Constant Husband (Marriage a la Mode)
  • Charles Hathaway
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1954 King Richard and the Crusaders
  • Saladin
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1953 Main Street to Broadway
  • Guest
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1952 The Four Poster
  • John Edwards
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1951 Long Dark Hall
  • Arthur Groome
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1948 Escape
  • Matt Denant
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1948 93% Unfaithfully Yours
  • Sir Alfred De Carter
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1947 100% The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
  • Ghost of Capt. Daniel Gregg
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1946 88% Anna and the King of Siam
  • The King of Siam
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1946 Journey Together
  • Guest
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1945 I Live in Grosvenor Square
  • Maj. David Bruce
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1945 71% Blithe Spirit
  • Charles Condomine
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1941 100% Major Barbara
  • Adolphus Cusins
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1940 92% Night Train to Munich (Gestapo)
  • Gus Bennett
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1938 Over the Moon
  • Dr. Freddie Jarvis
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1938 Citadel
  • Actor
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1938 80% The Citadel
  • Dr. Lawford
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1938 Sidewalks of London
  • Harley Prentiss
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1937 Storm in a Teacup
  • Frank Burdon
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1936 Men Are Not Gods
  • Tommy Stapleton
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1933 All at Sea
  • Aubrey Bellingham
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"It was during this time of personal turmoil that Harrison was offered the role of his career: Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady."
- submitted by Tracey c (3 years ago)
After publishing a successful auto-biography, Rex, in 1975 and getting knighted by the queen in 1989, Rex Harrison died of pancreatic cancer on June 2, 1990, just three weeks after his final stage appearance in W. Somerset Maugham's play The Circle.
- submitted by Tracey c (3 years ago)

Quotes from Rex Harrison's Characters

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    1. Prof. Henry Higgins: [singing] Women are irrational, that's all there is to that! Their heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags. They're nothing but exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags!
    From My Fair Lady. Submitted by Movie M (7 months ago)

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