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.

Philip Neville French OBE (28 August 1933 – 27 October 2015) was a British movie critic and former radio producer. French began his career in journalism in the late 1950s, before becoming a BBC Radio producer, and later a movie critic.

Oct 29, 2015 · Philip French must be one of the few journalists who was still writing on the same specialist subject for the same paper half a century a century after they started, despite changing fashions...

Oct 29, 2015 · He wrote for The Observer for more than 50 years, starting as part-time deputy film critic in 1962 and becoming full-time chief critic and deputy film editor 16 years later.

Former BBC radio producer, he has been the film critic of The Observer (British Sunday newspaper) from 1978. He is the father of the writer and critic Sean French.

Oct 27, 2015 · Philip French, the Observer's film critic for 50 years has died at the age of 82, the newspaper has confirmed. His family said he had suffered a heart attack on Tuesday, after...

Oct 27, 2015 · The Observer’s former film critic Philip French has died at the age of 82. French, who worked at the paper for over half a decade, is thought to have suffered a fatal heart attack on Tuesday ...

Oct 27, 2015 · Nick Bradshaw on the Observer's chief film critic for 35 years, an indefatigable keeper of the flame and esteemed Sight & Sound contributor. Philip French, one of the titans of British film criticism, has died of a heart attack at the age of 82.

Oct 27, 2015 · Film critic Philip French, who wrote for the Observer for 52 years, died from a heart attack on Tuesday morning at 82.

Oct 27, 2015 · British film critic Philip French, who wrote reviews for the Observer for 52 years, died from a heart attack on Tuesday morning. He was 82.