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Events in Film & TV

  • 1989-04-30 Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show

Birthdays in Film & TV

  • 1880-08-26 Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet/movie critic (Alcoola)
  • 1907-03-08 Charles Boost, Dutch film critic, born in Breda, Netherlands (d. 1990)
  • 1913-11-11 Peter Black, TV critic
  • 1918-10-07 Guido Aristarco, film critic
  • 1919-06-19 Pauline Kael, movie critic (NY Times, For Keeps)
  • 1922-05-22 Judith Crist, American film critic (TV Guide, Today), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2012)
  • 1924-04-17 Donald Richie, American-born author and (Japanese) film critic, born in Lima, Ohio (d. 2013)
  • 1924-07-27 Vincent Canby, American movie critic (NY Times), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2000)
  • 1925-08-28 John Gillett, British film critic and researcher, born in London (d. 1995)
  • 1926-07-17 Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
  • 1928-10-31 Andrew Sarris, American movie critic (Village Voice), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2012)
  • 1933-08-21 Barry Norman, British film critic (Film Greats), born in London (d. 2017)
  • 1938-10-02 Rex Reed, American movie critic and actor (Myra Breckinridge), born in Fort Worth, Texas
  • 1939-09-29 Molly Haskell, American film critic
  • 1942-06-18 Roger Ebert, film critic (Pulitzer Prize 1975), born in Urbana Illnois (d. 2013)
  • 1943-07-07 Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
  • 1945-05-05 Kurtis "Kurt" Loder, American film critic, TV personality and columnist (Rolling Stone, New York, Time), born in Ocean City, New Jersey
  • 1946-01-26 Gene Siskel, movie critic (Siskel & Ebert)
  • 1948-10-03 Michael Medved, American film critic
  • 1948-11-03 Tom Shales, TV critic (Washington Post)
  • 1950-12-18 Leonard Maltin, American movie critic (Entertainment Tonight), born in NYC, New York
  • 1958-10-19 John Bloom, [Joe Bob Briggs], drive-in movie critic
  • 1959-10-17 Richard Roeper, American columnist and film critic, born in Chicago, Illinois
  • 1963-07-02 Mark Kermode, British film critic
  • 1982-04-29 Kamran Jawaid, Pakistani film critic

Weddings in Film & TV

  • 1992-07-18 Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith

Deaths in Film & TV

  • 1990-01-01 Charles Boost, Dutch film critic, dies at 82
  • 1993-07-30 Jay Scott, [Jeffrey Scott Beaven], US/Canada movie critic, dies at 43
  • 1995-01-13 Maxwell Henley Harris, Austrian poet/publisher (Critics), dies at 73
  • 1995-01-25 Peter Black, TV critic, dies at 82
  • 1995-06-03 Dilys Powell, film Critic, dies at 93
  • 1995-12-08 John Gillett, British film critic and researcher, dies at 70
  • 1996-09-11 Guido Aristarco, film critic, dies at 77
  • 1999-02-20 Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
  • 2000-09-15 Vincent Canby, American movie critic (NY Times), dies at 76
  • 2001-09-03 Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
  • 2007-06-29 Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
  • 2010-03-25 Pål Bang-Hansen, Norwegian film critic and television personality (b. 1937)
  • 2012-06-20 Andrew Sarris, American movie critic (Village Voice), dies at 83
  • 2012-08-07 Judith Crist, American film critic (TV Guide, Today), dies at 90
  • 2013-02-19 Donald Richie, American-born author and (Japanese) film critic, dies at 88
  • 2013-04-04 Roger Ebert, American film critic (Pulitzer Prize 1975), dies of cancer at 70