Leslie Robert James Halliwell (February 23, 1929 – January 21, 1989) was a British motion picture historian and encyclopedist who shaped domestic tastes through his career as a buyer for television stations. February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as... A historian is someone who writes history, and history is a written accounting of the past. ... The term encyclopedist is usually used for a group of French philosophers who collaborated in the 18th century in the production of the Encyclopédie, under the direction of Denis Diderot. ... A buyer, sometimes called a merchandiser, is a person who purchases finished goods, typically for resale, for a firm, government, or organization. ... A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. ...

Life

Born in Bolton, Lancashire, 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. Statistics Population: 139,403 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SD715095 Administration Metropolitan borough: Bolton Metropolitan county: Greater Manchester Region: North West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Greater Manchester Historic county: Lancashire Services Police force: Greater Manchester Ambulance service: North West Post office and telephone... Lancashire is a county in North West England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... A scholarship is an award of access to an institution or a financial aid award for an individual (a scholar) for the purposes of furthering their education. ... Bolton School is a public school (independent school) situated in the town of Bolton, Greater Manchester in the North-West of England. ... National Service in the 20th century referred primarily to conscription for military service. ... English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, South Africa, and the Middle East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics... Full name Collegium sive aula D. Catharinæ in Universitate Cantabrigiensi Motto   For the wheel! (unofficial) Named after St Catharine of Alexandria Previous names Katharine Hall (1473-1860) Established 1473 Sister College(s) Worcester College Master (From 1st January, 2007) Prof. ... Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting news regarding current events, trends, issues and people. ...

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. Southern Television was one of the original ITV companies, serving the south-central and south-east of England from August 30, 1958 until 12:45 AM on January 1, 1982. ... Granada Television was the British ITV (commercial television) contractor for the North of England weekday franchise from 1954 (broadcasting began on May 3, 1956) until 1968, and for the Northwest England all-week franchise from 1968. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... ITV (Independent Television) is the name popularly given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. In England, Wales and southern Scotland, the network has been rebranded to ITV1 by ITV plc, the owners of... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sir Jeremy Isaacs (b. ... United States is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ... Channel 4 is a public-service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Halliwell's personal 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, but no film since 1967's Bonnie and Clyde received four stars. John Walker, who took over the editorship after his death, had broader tastes. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ...

Halliwell's professional knowledge of the entire gamut of cinema is still seen in his encyclopedias The Filmgoers' Companion (first published 1965), Halliwell's Film Guide (first published 1977) and Halliwell's Television Companion (first published 1979 as Halliwell's Teleguide). Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon, 1902 An encyclopedia, encyclopaedia or (traditionally) encyclopædia,[1] is a comprehensive written compendium that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

After his retirement, he wrote for the Daily Mail. He also published a number of historical and critical works about the cinema. The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, a tabloid, first published in 1896. ...

He married Ruth Porter in 1959 and they had one son. Halliwell died of stomach cancer in the Princess Alice hospice in Esher, Surrey. 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Stomach cancer (also called gastric cancer) can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs, particularly the esophagus, small intestine. ... Palliative care is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. ... Esher is a town in the Surrey borough of Elmbridge in South East England near the River Mole. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ...

Bibliography

• Halliwell, L. (from 1965) The Filmgoers' Companion ISBN 0-00-255798-3
• - (1965) Mountain of Dreams: the Golden Years of Paramount ISBN 0-246-10825-8
• - (1973) The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes ISBN 0-583-12889-0
• - (from 1977) Halliwell's Film Guide ISBN 0-00-714412-1
• - (from 1979) Halliwell's Television Companion ISBN 0-586-08379-0
• - (1982) Halliwell's Hundred ISBN 0-246-11330-8
• - (1985) Seats in All Parts: Half a Lifetime at the Movies ISBN 0-246-12478-4
• - (1986) Halliwell's Harvest' ISBN 0-684-18518-0
• - (1986) The Dead that Walk ISBN 0-8044-2300-8
• - (1987) Double Take and Fade Away ISBN 0-246-12835-6
• - (1987) Return to Shangri-La ISBN 0-586-07081-8
• Halliwell, L. & Murray, G. (1975) The Clapperboard Book of the Cinema ISBN 0-246-10814-2

External links

• Website celebrating Halliwell and his Film Guide: www.lesliehalliwell.com
• Baker, A.P. (2004) ‘Halliwell, (Robert James) Leslie (1929-1989)’, rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39934, accessed 8 June 2005>
• Famous Boltonians