Charles Champlin

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Charles Davenport Champlin (born March 23, 1926 in Hammondsport , New York - † November 16, 2014 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American journalist, film critic, television commentator, author and editor.

Career

Champlin graduated from Harvard University in 1948 and was a reporter for Time and Life magazine for 17 years . He worked in New York, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and London. From 1965 to 1991 he initially worked as a film critic and columnist, and most recently as an arts editor for the Los Angeles Times . He was an associate professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and for many years hosted a program on American television (Bravo Cable Network) on " Champlin on Film " and a series on " The great directors " on classic films . Champlin was President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and Trustee of the Los Angeles Film Teachers Association and the Los Angeles Student Film Festival. The Charles Champlin Collection covers the years 1965–1992 (most of them 1968–1988). The collection mainly contains excerpts and records of Champlin's articles on personalities and institutions in the entertainment industry, correspondence, materials from international film festivals, photos, etc.

On August 3, 2007, Charles Champlin was honored with a star (# 2344) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. He died on November 16, 2014 at the age of 88 in Los Angeles of complications from Alzheimer's disease .

Works (selection)

  • The Movies Grow Up: 1940-1980 . 1982, ISBN 0-8040-0363-7
  • George Lucas: The Creative Impulse. Lucasfilm's First Twenty Years . 1992, ISBN 0-8109-3564-3
  • John Frankenheimer. A Conversation With Charles Champlin . 1995 ISBN 1-880756-09-9
  • Hollywood's Revolutionary Decade Charles Champlin Reviews the Movies of the 1970s . 1998, ISBN 1-880284-26-X
  • Back There Where the Past Was. A small-town boyhood . 1999, ISBN 0-8156-0612-5 (preface by Ray Bradbury)
  • My Friend You Are Legally Blind A Writer's Struggle with Macular Degeneration Charles Champlin . 2001, ISBN 1-880284-48-0
  • A Life in Writing. The Story of an American Journalist . 2006, ISBN 0-8156-0847-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dennis McLellan: Charles Champlin dies at 88. In: Los Angeles Times of November 17, 2014 (English, accessed November 18, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Champlin, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Champlin, Charles Davenport (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, film critic, television commentator, author, and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Hammondsport , New York (State) , USA
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 2014
Place of death Los Angeles , California