Leslie Halliwell

Leslie Halliwell

Leslie Robert James Halliwell (23 February, 192921 January, 1989) was a British motion picture historian and encyclopedist who shaped domestic tastes through his career as a buyer for television stations.

Life

Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, Halliwell was captivated by films from an early age. A boy from a modest background, he won a scholarship to Bolton School and after National Service he studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge before holding a number of jobs in film journalism and cinema management.Baker, A.P. (2004). "Halliwell, (Robert James) Leslie (1929-1989)". - "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". - Oxford University Press. Retrieved: 8 June 2005]

After working for a decade as a researcher and buyer for Southern Television and then Granada Television, in 1968 he took responsibility for purchasing films for the entire ITV network. In 1982, at the personal invitiation of Jeremy Isaacs, he became buyer of U.S. films for Channel 4. He retired in 1986.

Halliwell's tastes were conservative. He had a preference for the cinema of the 1930s and 1940s. In his "Film Guide", he gave ratings of 0 stars to 4 stars for films. However, he believed that films needed to be of a certain age before their historical influence could be appraised. His sharp eye for technical quality and artistic excellence, regardless of a film's age, was evident. John Walker, who took over the editorship after his death, has broader tastes.Fact|date=February 2008

Halliwell's professional knowledge of the entire gamut of cinema is still seen in his encyclopedias "The Filmgoers' Companion", now published as "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies" (first published 1965), "Halliwell's Film Guide" (first published 1977) and "Halliwell's Television Companion" (first published 1979 as "Halliwell's Teleguide").

After his retirement, he wrote for the "Daily Mail". He also published a number of historical and critical works about the cinema.

He married Ruth Porter in 1959 and they had one son. Halliwell died of stomach cancer in the Princess Alice hospice in Esher, Surrey.

Halliwell's ten favourite films

This list of Leslie Halliwell's favourite films was originally published in the fifth edition of the film guide. [ [http://www.lesliehalliwell.com/topten.html Top Tens] . - LeslieHalliwell.com]
*"Citizen Kane" (1941)
*"Trouble in Paradise" (1932)
*"The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935)
*"Le Million" (1931)
*"A Matter of Life and Death" (1946)
*"Lost Horizon" (1937)
*"Sons of the Desert" (1933)
*"The Philadelphia Story" (1940)
*"The Maltese Falcon" (1941)
*"The Lady Vanishes" (1938)

Cultural references

*"Halliwell's Film Guide" is mentioned in Irvine Welsh's short story "Snuff", about an isolated man whose life is centered around watching every film from the book.

References

Bibliography

Works by

*1965. - "The Filmgoers' Companion". - ISBN 0002557983
*1965. - "Mountain of Dreams: the Golden Years of Paramount". - ISBN 0246108258
*1973. - "The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes". - ISBN 0583128890
*1975. - "The Clapperboard Book of the Cinema". - ISBN 0246108142 - (with Graham Murray and Granada Television)
*1977. - "Halliwell's Film Guide". - ISBN 0007144121
*1979. - "Halliwell's Television Companion". - ISBN 0586083790
*1982. - "Halliwell's Hundred". - ISBN 0246113308
*1985. - "Seats in All Parts: Half a Lifetime at the Movies". - ISBN 0246124784
*1986. - "Halliwell's Harvest". - ISBN 0684185180
*1986. - "The Dead that Walk". - ISBN 0804423008
*1987. - "Double Take and Fade Away". - ISBN 0246128356
*1987. - "Return to ShangriLa". - ISBN 0586070818

External links

* [http://www.lesliehalliwell.com Website celebrating Halliwell and his Film Guide]
* [http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:CaEn2V73u0EJ:www.thisisbolton.co.uk/lancashire/bolton/famousboltonians/cyrilbholmes.html+%22Leslie+Halliwell%22+cancer&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9&ie=UTF-8 "Famous Boltonians"]


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