Philip French

Philip French
French in 2013
Born
Philip Neville French

(1933-08-28)28 August 1933
Liverpool, England
Died27 October 2015(2015-10-27) (aged 82)
London, England
EducationBristol Grammar School
Alma materExeter College, Oxford
Indiana University Bloomington
OccupationFilm critic
Years active1957–2013
SpouseKersti Molin
Children3

Philip Neville French OBE (28 August 1933 – 27 October 2015) was an English film critic and radio producer. French began his career in journalism in the late 1950s, before eventually becoming a BBC Radio producer, and later a film critic. He began writing for The Observer in 1963, and continued to write criticism regularly there until his retirement in 2013.[1]

French was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in December 2012. Upon his death on 27 October 2015, French was referred to by his Observer successor Mark Kermode as "an inspiration to an entire generation of film critics".[1]

  1. ^ a b Shoard, Catherine (27 October 2015). "Philip French, much-loved Observer film critic, dies at the age of 82". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2015.

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