Sean Whalen
Maltin on Movies
Leonard Maltin
4.3 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
From instant—and enduring—recognition for a TV commercial to the present day, Sean Whalen has forged his own path as an actor. You can see him in the new release Traumatika, or you can surf any channel and come upon him in movies and TV shows: he has more than 200 credits on IMDB! He has written and directed two feature films for himself, and become a genuine star in the newest medium, TikTok, where he has more than 400,00 followers. Leonard and Jessie applaud his upbeat, can-do outlook, even when sharing stories of being cut from movies like Men in Black at the last minute.
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| 0:33.6 | Hi everybody. I'm Leonard Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton. |
| 0:38.3 | You're listening to Malton on movies. |
| 0:40.3 | And our guest today has been in a lot of them, and a lot of television episodes to boot. |
| 0:45.3 | My favorite thing about reading someone like, reading your bio and, of course, the IMDB page, is that it's a guess. |
| 0:53.3 | Before you open it, you go, all right, |
| 0:55.3 | we're gonna go 100 titles, 200 titles? |
| 0:57.8 | Where are we gonna guess? |
| 0:59.5 | Because that's the thing about being a working actor. |
| 1:03.4 | Right. |
| 1:04.4 | That there's one here, one here, one here, one here. |
| 1:07.0 | And it's, it is like looking through television history. |
| 1:11.3 | Right. |
| 1:16.5 | Seeing all these shows, my mom and I watched most of them. He didn't get to watch much TV, uh, obviously films. I would assume. But my mom and I watched all of it. |
| 1:22.1 | Nice. So it's, you know, it's a trip. And we've seen, I showed him some of your |
| 1:26.4 | TikToks because he's hip like that. |
| 1:30.3 | Okay. |
| 1:31.1 | And I love, I want to hang on with the cool kids. |
| 1:33.5 | You do. |
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