Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Philip Neville French OBE (28 August 1933 – 27 October 2015) was an English film critic and former radio producer. French began his career in journalism in the late 1950s, before eventually becoming a BBC Radio producer, and later a film critic. He began writing for The Observer in 1963, and continued to write criticism regularly there until his retirement in 2013.French was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in December 2012. Today, he is sometimes derided for having originally panned films which later went on to become classics, such as A Fistful of Dollars (1964) – but he was nevertheless an influential figure. Upon his death on 27 October 2015, French was referred to by his Observer successor Mark Kermode as "an inspiration to an entire generation of film critics"."@en }
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- Q7183570 abstract "Philip Neville French OBE (28 August 1933 – 27 October 2015) was an English film critic and former radio producer. French began his career in journalism in the late 1950s, before eventually becoming a BBC Radio producer, and later a film critic. He began writing for The Observer in 1963, and continued to write criticism regularly there until his retirement in 2013.French was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in December 2012. Today, he is sometimes derided for having originally panned films which later went on to become classics, such as A Fistful of Dollars (1964) – but he was nevertheless an influential figure. Upon his death on 27 October 2015, French was referred to by his Observer successor Mark Kermode as "an inspiration to an entire generation of film critics".".