Cast: Rex Harrison

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Rex Harrison. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Gene Tierney · Rex Harrison · George Sanders · Edna Best

Synopsis At the beginning of the twentieth century, Mrs. Edwin Muir - Lucy - widowed for one year, decides to move out of her controlling in-law's home in London to the English seaside with her adolescent daughter Anna and their long...

7.7

6K votes

7.7

6K votes

My Fair Lady

1964 · Movie · 170 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Rex Harrison · Stanley Holloway · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis My Fair Lady (1964) follows the story of Eliza Doolittle, a poor Cockney flower seller, who encounters the arrogant phonetics professor Henry Higgins. Higgins makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can transform Eliza into a refined...

7.6

27K votes

7.6

27K votes

7.2

2K votes

Cleopatra

1963 · Movie · 243 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Rex Harrison · Roddy McDowall

Synopsis In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and, ultimately, an epic flop that nearly dragged 20th Century Fox...

7.2

9K votes

7.2

9K votes

The Citadel

1938 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Robert Donat · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Richardson · Rex Harrison

Synopsis Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh 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...

7.1

464 votes

7.1

464 votes

The Agony and the Ecstasy

1965 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Charlton Heston · Rex Harrison · Diane Cilento · Harry Andrews

Synopsis Pope Julius is eager to leave behind works by which he will be remembered. To this end he cajoles Michelangelo into painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When not on the battlefield uniting Italy, the Pope nags Michelangelo to...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Unfaithfully Yours

1948 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Rex Harrison · Linda Darnell · Kurt Kreuger · Barbara Lawrence

Synopsis Sir Alfred De Carter suspects his wife of infidelity. While conducting a symphony orchestra, he imagines three different ways of dealing with the situation. When the concert ends, he tries acting out his fantasies, but things do not go as...

7.0

473 votes

7.0

473 votes

Escape

1948 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Rex Harrison · Peggy Cummins · William Hartnell · Norman Wooland

Synopsis Matt Denant, ex-RAF flier, sentenced to three years in Dartmoor for striking and accidentally killing a detective who was attempting to arrest a lady of the evening to whom Denant had been casually speaking. Rankling under the injustice, Denant flees...

6.5

104 votes

6.5

104 votes

Blithe Spirit

1945 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Rex Harrison · Constance Cummings · Kay Hammond · Margaret Rutherford

Synopsis To get background for a new book, author Charles and his second wife Ruth light-heartedly arrange for local mystic Madame Arcati to give a séance. The unfortunate result is that Charles' first wife Elvira returns from beyond the grave to...

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6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Night Train to Munich

1940 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Rex Harrison · Margaret Lockwood · Paul Henreid · Basil Radford

Synopsis When the Germans march into Prague, armour-plating inventor Dr Bomasch flees to England. His daughter Anna escapes from arrest to join him, but the Gestapo manage to kidnap them both back to Berlin. As war looms, British secret service agent...

6.5

301 votes

6.5

301 votes

St. Martin's Lane

1938 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tim Whelan

Cast Charles Laughton · Vivien Leigh · Rex Harrison · Tyrone Guthrie

Synopsis Taken under the wing of a London street musician, a beautiful young woman develops her vocal talents and ultimately deserts her "busker" for a high-society songwriter.

6.5

160 votes

6.5

160 votes

Midnight Lace

1960 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Doris Day · Rex Harrison · John Gavin · Myrna Loy

Synopsis Kit and Anthony Preston never had a real honeymoon, and the midnight lace pajamas are for when they can finally get out of London. Anthony's business is very pressing these days. Then Kit is frightened one day in a London...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

The Reluctant Debutante

1958 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Rex Harrison · Kay Kendall · John Saxon · Sandra Dee

Synopsis Jimmy and Sheila Broadbent (Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall), welcome to London Jimmy's 17-year-old daughter, Jane (Sandra Dee). Jane is from Jimmy's first marriage to an American and has come to visit her father and the step-mother she has never...

6.4

292 votes

6.4

292 votes

Anna and the King of Siam

1946 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Irene Dunne · Rex Harrison · Linda Darnell · Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis ad feedbackIn 1862, young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam. On her arrival in Bangkok, culture clash is immediate. The king respects Anna for standing up to him, though this appalls his...

6.4

549 votes

6.4

549 votes

Staircase

1969 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast Richard Burton · Rex Harrison · Cathleen Nesbitt · Beatrix Lehmann

Synopsis Homosexual lovers face age and society''s disapproval together. For 30 years homosexuals Charlie Dyer (Rex Harrison) and Harry Leeds (Richard Burton) have lived together over a barber shop they run in London; Harry now suffers from a scalp condition so...

6.3

348 votes

6.3

348 votes

The Foxes of Harrow

1947 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Rex Harrison · Maureen O'Hara · Richard Haydn · Victor McLaglen

Synopsis Frank Yerby's Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. 20th Century-Fox boiled the novel down into 118 minutes' worth of essentials for this film version. In antebellum New Orleans, roguish Irish gambler...

6.3

142 votes

6.3

142 votes

The Prince and the Pauper

1977 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Oliver Reed · Charlton Heston · Mark Lester · Raquel Welch

Synopsis England, 19th Century. Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and decide to play a joke on the court by...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

Major Barbara

1941 · Movie · 131 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gabriel Pascal · David Lean · Harold French

Cast Wendy Hiller · Rex Harrison · Robert Morley · Robert Newton

Synopsis Filmed in London in 1941, during the Blitz, Major Barbara emerged from a troubled production to become a major success for George Bernard Shaw and producer-director Gabriel Pascal. Pygmalion’s Wendy Hiller returns, this time as one of Shaw’s most memorable...

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6.0

85 votes

6.0

85 votes

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

1964 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Rex Harrison · Shirley MacLaine · Jeanne Moreau

Synopsis Written by Terence Rattigan, The Yellow Rolls-Royce presented three stages in the life of the Rolls. We saw it first in a West End shop-window, where its impressive dignity and hypnotic appeal arrest the eye of Rex Harrison, an English...

6.0

590 votes

6.0

590 votes