Rex Harrison
Highest Rated: 100% The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Lowest Rated: 29% Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Birthday: Mar 05, 1908
Birthplace: Huyton, Lancashire, England, UK
Stagestruck from boyhood, suave British actor Rex Harrison joined the Liverpool Repertory Theatre at the age of 16, beginning a 66-year career that would culminate with his final performance on Broadway, May 11, 1990, three weeks prior to his death. Best known for his Tony- and Oscar-winning portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins in Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's "My Fair Lady," he made his West End debut in "Getting George Married" (1930) and his Broadway debut in "Sweet Aloes" (1936), but it was a two year run on the London stage in Sir Terrence Rattigan's "French Without Tears" that made him a star. Appearances in other sophisticated comedies, S N Behrman's "No Time for Comedy" and Noel Coward's "Design for Living" (both 1939), established him as what Coward himself called "the best light comedian in the world--after me."
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 100% | Cleopatra 50th Anniversary | Unknown (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Time to Die | Van Osten (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Kingfisher | Cecil (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 26% | Ashanti | Brian Walker (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | The Fifth Musketeer | Colbert (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 32% | Shalimar | Sir John Locksley (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 40% | 35% | Staircase | Charles Dyer (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | A Flea in Her Ear |
Victor Chandebisse/ |
- | 1968 |
| 29% | 57% | Doctor Dolittle | Doctor John Dolittle (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 57% | 60% | The Honey Pot | Cecil Sheridan Fox (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 86% | 78% | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Pope Julius II (Character) | - | 1965 |
| 95% | 90% | My Fair Lady | Professor Henry Higgins (Character) | $447.6K | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | The Yellow Rolls-Royce | Lord Charles Frinton (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 62% | 69% | Cleopatra | Julius Caesar (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | The Happy Thieves | Jimmy Bourne (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 83% | 76% | Midnight Lace | Anthony Preston (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 50% | 74% | The Reluctant Debutante | Jimmy Broadbent (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Constant Husband | William Egerton (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 19% | King Richard and the Crusaders | Emir Hderim Sultan Saladin (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Four Poster | John Edwards (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Long Dark Hall | Arthur Groome (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Escape | Unknown (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 93% | 87% | Unfaithfully Yours | Sir Alfred De Carter (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 100% | 88% | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Capt. Daniel Gregg (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Foxes of Harrow | Stephen Fox (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 88% | 68% | Anna and the King of Siam | King Mongkut (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Notorious Gentleman | Vivian Kenway (Character) | - | 1945 |
| 77% | 75% | Blithe Spirit | Charles Condomine (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Live in Grosvenor Square | Major David Bruce (Character) | - | 1945 |
| 93% | 55% | Major Barbara | Adolphus Cusins (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Over the Moon | Dr. Freddie Jarvis (Character) | - | 1940 |
| 89% | 73% | Night Train to Munich | Gus Bennett (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ten Days in Paris | Bob Stevens (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | School for Husbands | Leonard Drummond (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | Sidewalks of London | Harley Prentiss (Character) | - | 1938 |
| 89% | 72% | The Citadel | Dr. Rennie Lawford (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | Storm in a Teacup | Frank Burdon (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Men Are Not Gods | Tommy Stapleton (Character) | - | 1936 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna | Unknown (Character) | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dow Hour of Great Mysteries | Unknown (Character) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Startime | Unknown (Character) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The United States Steel Hour | Raymond Dabney (Character) | 1953 |
QUOTES FROM Rex Harrison CHARACTERS
Dr. John Dolittle says: I think as a matter of principle, one should always avoid eating one's friends.
Prof. Henry Higgins says: [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!
Ghost of Capt. Daniel Gregg says: “And now, you'll never be tired again. Come my dear.”
Ghost of Capt. Daniel Gregg says: And now, you'll never be tired again. Come my dear.
Eliza Doolittle says: I washed my hands and face before I come I did.
Prof. Henry Higgins says: [elated] ...Eliza? ... Where the devil are my slippers?
Prof. Henry Higgins says: But I'm used to hear say, "Good morning" everyday. Her joys, her woes, her highs, her lows. A second nature to me now. Like breathing out and breathing in. I'm very grateful she's a woman! And so easy to forget. Rather like a habit one can always break! And yet, I've grown accustomed to the trace of something in the air. Accustomed to her... face.
Prof. Henry Higgins says: But I'm used to hear say, 'Good morning' everyday. Her joys, her woes, her highs, her lows. A second nature to me now. Like breathing out and breathing in. I'm very grateful she's a woman! And so easy to forget. Rather like a habit one can always break! And yet, I've grown accustomed to the trace of something in the air. Accustomed to her... face.
Eliza Doolittle says: Well, you have my voice on your gramophone. When you feel lonely without me you can turn it on. It has no feelings to hurt.
Prof. Henry Higgins says: ...I can't turn your soul on.
Prof. Henry Higgins says: Damn Mrs. Pearce! Damn the coffee! And damn you!
Mrs. Pearce says: But where shall I put her?
Prof. Henry Higgins says: Well.. Put her in the dustbin.