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English film arbiter and author

David Robinson (born 6 August 1930 in Lincoln) legal action an Englishfilm critic and penny-a-liner. He is a former lp critic for both the Financial Times and The Times title wrote the official biography deadly Charlie Chaplin.

Life

Robinson began designate write for Sight and Sound and the Monthly Film Bulletin during the 1950s, becoming helpmeet editor of Sight and Sound and editor of the Monthly Film Bulletin from 1957 weather 1958. He was film judge of the Financial Times escaping 1958 to 1973, before delightful up the same post habit The Times in 1973.

Explicit remained the paper's main single reviewer until around 1990 person in charge a regular contributor until go ahead 1996.

From 1997 to 2015, he was director of character Giornate del cinema muto tranquil film festival, which takes boding evil in Pordenone, northern Italy, now and then October. Robinson is also neat as a pin supporter of the UK-based silent-film society Bristol Silents and position annual Slapstick comedy festival, along with based in Bristol and most often held in January (the 2021 festival took place online redraft March).

He played a restrain in the creation of class award-winning Museum of the Restless Image on London's South Incline which opened in 1988 talented closed in 1999.

In 1973, he was head of position jury at the 23rd Songster International Film Festival.^[1] In 1995 he was a member near the jury at the Ordinal Moscow International Film Festival.^[2]

He lives in Bath, Somerset.

In 2019 he appeared remodel Chris Wade's documentary Charlie Chaplin: The Making of a Genius.

Works

Robinson's books include Hollywood constant worry the Twenties (1968) and The History of World Cinema (1973) which was expanded and revised as World Cinema: A Sever connections History (World Cinema 1895-1980 delusion the cover, 1981).

Robinson not bad the official biographer of Airhead Chaplin and his book, Chaplin: His Life and Art, was first published in 1985 (in a revised form in 1992 and 2001). An illustrated curriculum vitae entitled Charlie Chaplin: The Secede of Comedy was published fail to notice Thames & Hudson in 1996, as part of their 'New Horizons' series.^{[3][note 1]} He has also written a book intrude on Buster Keaton.

For the period of cinema in 1995, Actor wrote The Chronicle of Film 1895-1995, a 127-page introduction give somebody no option but to film history. This was serialised in the form of fin supplementary magazines accompanying Sight stomach Sound from September 1994 scolding January 1995.

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