Rex Harrison
Highest Rated: 100% The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Lowest Rated: 27% Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Birthday: Mar 5, 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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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 | 42% | The Fifth Musketeer | Colbert (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Ashanti | Brian Walker (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 32% | Shalimar | Sir John Locksley (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 40% | 33% | Staircase | Charles Dyer (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | A Flea in Her Ear |
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- | 1968 |
| 57% | 60% | The Honey Pot | Cecil Sheridan Fox (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 27% | 57% | Doctor Dolittle | Doctor John Dolittle (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 86% | 78% | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Pope Julius II (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | The Yellow Rolls-Royce | Lord Charles Frinton (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 95% | 90% | My Fair Lady | Professor Henry Higgins (Character) | $447.6K | 1964 |
| 60% | 69% | Cleopatra | Julius Caesar (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | The Happy Thieves | Jimmy Bourne (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 83% | 74% | 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 |
| 94% | 86% | Unfaithfully Yours | Sir Alfred De Carter (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Escape | Unknown (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 |
| 77% | 75% | Blithe Spirit | Charles Condomine (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Notorious Gentleman | Vivian Kenway (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 |
| 89% | 73% | Night Train to Munich | Gus Bennett (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Over the Moon | Dr. Freddie Jarvis (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 |
| 89% | 74% | The Citadel | Dr. Rennie Lawford (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | Sidewalks of London | Harley Prentiss (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 |