English film critics

The list English film critics includes Jonathan Ross, Joe Cornish, Richard Bacon, Lindsay Anderson and Mark Kermode. The list consists of 72 members.

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Jonathan Ross

English broadcaster, film critic, actor, and comedian (born 1960)

Overview: Jonathan Stephen Ross OBE (born 17 November 1960) is an English broadcaster, film critic, comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He presented the BBC One chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross during ...

Date of birth: 17 November 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: British

Occupation: Talk Show Host

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

Partner: Jane Goldman (Married)

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British male television writers 467T

Best Entertainment Performance BAFTA Award (television) winners 32T

21st-century British screenwriters 188T
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Joe Cornish

English comedian and filmmaker

Overview: Joseph Murray Cornish (born 20 December 1968) is an English comedian and filmmaker. With his long-time comedy partner, Adam Buxton, he forms the comedy duo Adam and Joe. In 2011, Cornish released his ...

Date of birth: 20 December 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: British

Occupation: Comedian

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

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English male non-fiction writers 1,748T

English male screenwriters 563T

Male screenwriters 2,358T
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Lindsay Anderson

British film director

Overview: Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading-light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New ...

Date of birth: 17 April 1923

Date of death: 30 August 1994

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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Film directors from Bangalore 75T

Directors of Palme d'Or winners 99T

LGBT writers from England 339T
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Penelope Gilliatt

British writer

Overview: Penelope Gilliatt (born Penelope Ann Douglass Conner; 25 March 1932 – 9 May 1993) was an English novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film critic. As one of the main film critics for The ...

Date of birth: 25 March 1932

Date of death: 9 May 1993

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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20th-century British screenwriters 395T

20th-century American screenwriters 1,746T

20th-century English women writers 690T
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Richard Bacon

English television and radio presenter

Overview: Richard Paul Bacon (born 30 November 1975) is an English television and radio presenter. He was a host of the children's show Blue Peter—his first high-profile media role. He has since worked as a reporter ...

Date of birth: 30 November 1975

Age: 49

Nationality: British

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

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People with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder 130T

People educated at Worksop College 34T

People from Mansfield 122T
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Bryher

British writer

Overview: Bryher (2 September 1894 – 28 January 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, of the Ellerman ship-owning family.

Date of birth: 2 September 1894

Date of death: 28 January 1983

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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British women memoirists 141T

20th-century English women writers 690T

Daughters of baronets 142T
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Barry Norman

British film critic

Overview: Barry Leslie Norman CBE (21 August 1933 – 30 June 2017) was a British film critic, television presenter and journalist. He presented the BBC's cinema review programme, Film..., from 1972 to 1998.

Date of birth: 21 August 1933

Date of death: 30 June 2017

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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2017 deaths 9,371T

Liberal Democrat (UK) people 21T

The Observer people 90T
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Mark Kermode

British film critic

Overview: Mark James Patrick Kermode (né Fairey; born 2 July 1963) is an English film critic and musician. He is the chief film critic for The Observer, contributes to the magazine Sight & Sound, presents the BBC ...

Date of birth: 2 July 1963

Age: 61

Nationality: British

Occupation: Bassist

Gender: Male

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British men podcasters 52T

21st-century British male musicians 983T

Male double-bassists 693T
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Paul Ross

English television and radio presenter, journalist and media personality (born 1956)

Overview: Paul Ross (born 31 December 1956) is an English television and radio presenter, journalist and media personality.

Date of birth: 31 December 1956

Age: 68

Nationality: British

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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Ross family 4T

English male non-fiction writers 1,894T

British social commentators 175T
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Derek Malcolm

English film critic and historian (1932–2023)

Overview: Derek Elliston Michael Malcolm (12 May 1932 – 15 July 2023) was an English film critic and historian.

Date of birth: 12 May 1932

Date of death: 16 July 2023

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

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English male journalists 1,076T

British Film Institute 35T

People educated at Eton College 4,961T
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Philip Jenkinson

BRitish film critic

Overview: Philip Jenkinson (17 August 1935 – 11 March 2012) was an English cinema specialist, journalist, BBC television presenter, and film collector. His collection was known as Filmfinders.

Date of birth: 17 August 1935

Date of death: 11 March 2012

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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2012 deaths 8,756T

People from Sale, Greater Manchester 59T

British film critics 61T
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Kim Newman

English novelist

Overview: Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes ...

Date of birth: 31 July 1959

Age: 65

Nationality: British

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

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British alternate history writers 23T

Psychological fiction writers 26T

21st-century British short story writers 139T
13.

Sheridan Morley

English author and broadcaster 1941–2007

Overview: Sheridan Morley (5 December 1941, in Ascot, Berkshire − 16 February 2007, in London) was an English author, biographer, critic and broadcaster. He was the official biographer of Sir John Gielgud and wrote ...

Date of birth: 5 December 1941

Date of death: 16 February 2007

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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The Spectator people 45T

English radio people 14T

Punch (magazine) people 24T
14.

James Marriott

English film critic, writer and editor

Overview: James Patrick Blackden Marriott (6 September 1972 – 28 July 2012) was an English film critic and writer of fiction and non-fiction.

Date of birth: 6 September 1972

Date of death: 28 July 2012

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

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21st-century English male writers 702T

English male non-fiction writers 1,972T

21st-century British short story writers 178T
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Bolu Babalola

British writer (born 1991)

Overview: Boluwatito Temilola Babalola (born 24 February 1991) is a British author, television writer, and journalist. Her debut novel Love in Colour was published in 2020 and became a Sunday Times Bestseller. She ...

Date of birth: 24 February 1991

Age: 34

Nationality: British

Occupation: Columnist

Gender: Female

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British women television writers 166T

Black British women writers 115T

Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients 194T
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V.F. Perkins

English, Critic

Overview: Victor Francis Perkins (22 December 1936 – 15 July 2016) was a British film critic, best known for his work on film aesthetics and interpretation. He was born in Devon, and began teaching at Warwick U ...

Date of birth: 22 December 1936

Date of death: 15 July 2016

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Critic

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2016 deaths 10,427T

1936 births 11,232T
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David Quinlan (film critic)

Overview: David Quinlan is an English film critic, journalist, film historian and author.

Nationality: British

Occupation: Critic

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British film historians 33T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

Writers from London 1,578T
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Nerina Shute

English writer and journalist

Overview: Nerina Shute (17 July 1908 – 20 October 2004) was an English writer and journalist, described by the Sunday Times as "the amazingly colourful, brilliant and bisexual film critic".

Date of birth: 17 July 1908

Date of death: 20 October 2004

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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20th-century English women writers 690T

English women non-fiction writers 402T

20th-century British women writers 1,321T
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Matthew Sweet (writer)

British writer

Overview: Matthew Sweet (born 2 December 1969) is an English journalist, broadcaster, author, and cultural historian. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he has been interviewed on many documentaries about ...

Date of birth: 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: British

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

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English male journalists 1,076T

Writers from Kingston upon Hull 32T

BBC Radio 3 presenters 64T
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Penelope Houston (film critic)

British film critic

Overview: Penelope Houston (9 September 1927 – 26 October 2015) was an English film critic and journal editor. She edited Sight & Sound for almost 35 years.

Date of birth: 9 September 1927

Date of death: 28 October 2015

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Critic

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Women magazine editors 530T

Women film critics 98T

2015 deaths 9,624T