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- After graduating from university, Roger Manvell spent ten years as a schoolteacher and lecturer until 1940, when he joined the Films Division of the wartime Ministry of Information. After the war, he joined the British Film Institute as its Research Officer. He lectured on cinema topics all over Britain and also in the Middle East and across Europe. Famous as an author or editor of film books in the 1950s, he also wrote some television plays and scripts for a children's TV series. He regularly made appearances on British radio as a film critic and lecturer.
- IMDb mini biography by: anonymous
- Author and broadcaster, and from 1947 Director of the British Film Academy.
- Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1954
- Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1955
- Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1968.
- One of the most famous British film critics of his generation, the author of many books on the cinema and a frequent broadcaster on film topics.
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