List of the best Rex Harrison movies: Unfaithfully Yours(1948), Blithe Spirit(1945), The Honey Pot(1967), Notorious Gentleman(1945), The Happy Thieves(1962), The Yellow Rolls-Royce(1964), The Long Dark Hall(1951), A Flea in Her Ear(1968), The Four Poster(1952), King Richard and the Crusaders(1954), The Foxes of Harrow(1947), The Constant Husband(1955) ... ...
Romance
USA
1948
105 Minutes
Sir Alfred De Carter
Rex Harrison Linda Darnell Rudy Vallee Barbara Lawrence Kurt Kreuger Lionel Stander Edgar Kennedy Alan Bridge Julius Tannen Torben Meyer
orchestra conductor brother-in-law wife detective secretary amusing charming family home concert stage love marriage infidelity jealousy classical music love revenge 1930s
While conducting a symphony orchestra, Sir Alfred De Carter imagines three different ways of dealing with his wife's suspected infidelity, then tries acting out his fantasies, but things do... See full summary »
Fantasy
UK
1945
96 Minutes
Rex Harrison Constance Cummings Kay Hammond Margaret Rutherford Hugh Wakefield Joyce Carey Jaqueline Clarke
writer psychic wife ghost airy amusing lighthearted family home love triangle ghosts writing pursuit quest 1940s
A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1967
131 Minutes
Cecil Sheridan Fox
Rex Harrison Susan Hayward Cliff Robertson Capucine Edie Adams Maggie Smith Adolfo Celi Herschel Bernardi
millionaire wealthy woman princess actress actor nurse amusing intricate venice, italy household murder investigation schemes wealth practical jokes mystery 1960s
In Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy ex-girlfriends into thinking he's dying and leaving his fortune to one of them.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1945
109 Minutes
Vivian Kenway
Rex Harrison Lilli Palmer Godfrey Tearle Griffith Jones Margaret Johnston Guy Middleton Jean Kent
playboy student secretary colonel best friend wife cool crafty engaging college england oxford university self-discovery seduction world war ii relationships bad behavior redemption discovery pursuit
Vivian Kenway (Sir Rex Harrison), a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1962
88 Minutes
Jimmy Bourne
Rex Harrison Rita Hayworth Joseph Wiseman Alida Valli Gregoire Aslan Virgilio Texeira Peter Illing Britt Ekland
In the final days of the Korean War, an enemy airman is captured by three American soldiers who cannot bring themselves to follow the order to execute their prisoner.
Comedy
UK
1964
122 Minutes
Lord Charles Frinton
Rex Harrison Shirley MacLaine Ingrid Bergman Jeanne Moreau Edmund Purdom George C. Scott Omar Sharif Art Carney Alain Delon Roland Culver Wally Cox
marquess wife gangster girlfriend widow resistance fighter intricate emotional amusing offbeat london italy yugoslavia car marriage infidelity forbidden love crime nazi occupation cars
Anthology movie about three owners of a yellow Rolls-Royce. A British diplomat buys the car for his French wife. A mobster's girlfriend has an affair in Italy. An American woman drives a Yugoslavian partisan to Ljubljana on the eve of the Nazi invasion.
Drama
UK
1951
86 Minutes
Arthur Groome
Rex Harrison Reginald Beck Lilli Palmer Denis O'Dea Tania Held Henrietta Barry Raymond Huntley Patricia Wayne Anthony Dawson Meriel Forbes Brenda De Banzie
murder suspect wife mistress murderer lawyer judge tense courtroom london apartment family home police station trial murder false accusations marriage infidelity mystery 1950s
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the only suspect when someone else murders her.
Comedy
USA
1968
94 Minutes
Victor Chandebisse, Poche
Rex Harrison Rosemary Harris Louis Jourdan Rachel Roberts John Williams Gregoire Aslan Edward Hardwicke Georges Descrières Isla Blair
A Frenchwoman (Rosemary Harris), suspecting her lawyer husband (Sir Rex Harrison) of having an affair, plots to catch him in the act.
Comedy
USA
1952
103 Minutes
John Edwards
husband wife writer cheeky cool moving new york city bedroom household marriage ambition writing parenthood infidelity war love rise quest 1930s
Adapted from the prize-winning Broadway play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple enacts their marriage, from its day in 1897, until he dies, some time after ... See full summary »
Drama, History
USA
1954
114 Minutes
Emir Hderim Sultan Saladin
Rex Harrison Virginia Mayo Laurence Harvey George Sanders Robert Douglas
king knight lighthearted jerusalem royalty loyalty medieval times swordplay assassination adventure 12th century
While leading the Third Crusade, King Richard the Lionheart (George Sanders) battles treachery in his own camp as well as the Saracens and their charismatic leader Emir Hderim Sultan Saladin (Sir Rex Harrison).
Drama
1947
117 Minutes
Stephen Fox
gambler aristocrat rival servant son melodramatic intense moving ireland new orleans ship plantation field graveyard ambition class conflict marriage accidental death drinking financial crisis
An Irish gambler (Rex Harrison) rises socially, marries an aristocrat (Maureen O'Hara) and builds a grand estate in 1820s New Orelans.
Comedy
1955
84 Minutes
William Egerton
Rex Harrison Margaret Leighton Kay Kendall Cecil Parker Nicole Maurey George Cole Raymond Huntley Michael Hordern Robert Coote Eric Pohlmann
man wife specialist doctor charming emotional airy amusing hilarious wales hotel room doctor's office london amnesia fake identity marriage humor love forbidden love quest
An amnesiac (Rex Harrison) wakes up one morning in Wales and learns, through a psychiatrist, he has seven wives.
Musical
USA
1964
170 Minutes
Professor Henry Higgins
Audrey Hepburn Rex Harrison Stanley Holloway Wilfrid Hyde-White Gladys Cooper Jeremy Brett Theodore Bikel Isobel Elsom Mona Washbourne John Alderson John McLiam
professor pretty woman peasant suitor amusing charming winsome london aspirations wager class distinctions high society love discovery quest transformation 1900s
Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1940
93 Minutes
Gus Bennett
Margaret Lockwood Rex Harrison Paul Henreid Basil Radford Naunton Wayne James Harcourt Felix Aylmer F. Wyndham Goldie Roland Culver Eliot Makeham Raymond Huntley
scientist daughter undercover agent czech nazi thrilling cheeky gutsy train concentration camp naval base germany prague england world war ii espionage scientific experiments nazism technology journey
After Germany invades Czechoslovakia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Dr. Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt), inventor of a new type of armor-plating.
Drama, History
USA
1965
136 Minutes
Charlton Heston Rex Harrison Diane Cilento Harry Andrews Adolfo Celi Venantino Venantini John Stacy Fausto Tozzi Maxine Audley Tomas Milian
artist pope countess passionate powerful rome mountain sistine chapel michelangelo painting renaissance religion historical events rivalry transformation 16th century
The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.
Drama
USA
1946
128 Minutes
King Mongkut
Irene Dunne Rex Harrison Linda Darnell Lee J. Cobb Gale Sondergaard Mikhail Rasumny Dennis Hoey Tito Renaldo
king teacher wife son daughter engaging spirited thailand bangkok royal palace school culture clash friendship jealousy social change westernization discovery transformation 1860s
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1960
108 Minutes
Doris Day Rex Harrison John Gavin Myrna Loy Roddy McDowall Herbert Marshall Natasha Parry John Williams Hermione Baddeley Richard Ney Rhys Williams
husband wife architect mysterious man stalker suspenseful chilling london apartment honeymoon telephone calls stalking accident doubt on the run mystery pursuit 1960s
In London, a recently wed American woman's sanity comes into question after she claims to be the victim of a threatening stalker.
Comedy
UK
1941
135 Minutes
Wendy Hiller Rex Harrison Robert Morley Robert Newton Emlyn Williams Sybil Thorndike Deborah Kerr David Tree Stanley Holloway
industrialist daughter boyfriend preacher witty engaging england factory social change wealth disillusionment family poverty social standing discovery quest growing up 1940s
A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary.
Comedy
UK
1937
87 Minutes
Frank Burdon
Vivien Leigh Ian Dalrymple Rex Harrison Cecil Parker Sara Allgood Ursula Jeans Gus McNaughton Arthur Wontner Edgar K. Bruce Robert Hale Eliot Makeham
journalist politician daughter woman dog cheery charming scotland small town court journalism unlikely romance reputation scandal trial pets rivalry love 1930s
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.
Romance
UK
1940
78 Minutes
Dr. Freddie Jarvis
Merle Oberon Rex Harrison Ursula Jeans Robert Douglas Louis Borel Zena Dare Peter Haddon David Tree Mackenzie Ward Carl Jaffe Elisabeth Welch
Young Jane Benson (Merle Oberon) just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis (Sir Rex Harrison), she suggests ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1969
100 Minutes
Richard Burton Rex Harrison Cathleen Nesbitt Beatrix Lehmann Royston Starr Jake Kavanagh Dermot Kelly
homosexual hairdresser mother hustler business partner boyfriend amusing sad witty touching london barbershop apartment nightclub relationships mother/son relationship aging homosexuality love love
Charles Dyer (Sir Rex Harrison) and Harry Leeds (Richard Burton) are a couple that have been living together for nearly twenty years. Both earn a living as hairdressers in the West End of ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1938
112 Minutes
Dr. Rennie Lawford
Robert Donat Rosalind Russell Rex Harrison Ralph Richardson Emlyn Williams Penelope Dudley Ward Francis L. Sullivan Mary Clare Cecil Parker Nora Swinburne Edward Chapman
doctor wife miner gutsy engaging inspiring moving wales london mining town hypocrisy tuberculosis medicine aspirations wretched excess underdog 1930s
Andrew Manson (Robert Donat), 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 ... See full summary »
Drama, History
Switzerland|UK|USA
1963
243 Minutes
Julius Caesar
Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton Rex Harrison Pamela Brown George Cole Hume Cronyn Cesare Danova Kenneth Haigh Andrew Keir Martin Landau Roddy McDowall
julius caesar mark antony cleopatra soldier military officer passionate powerful spectacular ancient egypt royal court jealousy love triangle politics assassination quest love ancient egypt
Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.
Romance
1945
106 Minutes
Major David Bruce
Anna Neagle Dean Jagger Rex Harrison Robert Morley Nancy Price Irene Vanbrugh Jane Darwell Elliot Arluck
army officer love interest soldier american man british man amusing lighthearted london united kingdom war love rivalry patriotism love rivalry 1940s
An Army sergeant (Dean Jagger) falls in love with a British major's (Rex Harrison) titled fiancee (Anna Neagle) in World War II London.
Comedy
1938
84 Minutes
Harley Prentiss
Charles Laughton Vivien Leigh Rex Harrison Tyrone Guthrie Larry Adler Gus McNaughton Bart Cormack Edward Lexy Mairie O'Neill Basil Gill
street performer orphan songwriter partner dancer cheeky emotional intense london street party theater stage fame ambition drinking prison career singing rise
A street performer (Charles Laughton) develops a poor girl's (Vivien Leigh) talent, and a songwriter (Rex Harrison) boosts her to music-hall fame.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1936
82 Minutes
Tommy Stapleton
Miriam Hopkins Gertrude Lawrence Sebastian Shaw Rex Harrison A.E. Matthews Val Gielgud Lawrence Grossmith Laura Smithson
secretary actor actress critic boyfriend intricate emotional tense london theater trafalgar square leicester square hyde park tower bridge theater criticism love triangle william shakespeare betrayal rivalry
Ann Williams (Miriam Hopkins), secretary to eccentric drama critic T.H. Skeates (A.E. Matthews), is persuaded to alter a ruinous review of Shakespearean actor Edmond Davey (Sebastian Shaw) ... See full summary »