A celebration of the life of Alan Brien (1925 - 2008)
Monday, 9 June 2008
Peter Green
Actors' agent and resident of Denville Hall who welcomed Alan to the fold with "after a new show opened we'd go to the newspapers looking for "what has Bernard Levin written, what does Ken Tynan say but what does Alan Brien think?"
Alan Brien, journalist and writer: born Sunderland, 12 March 1925
associate editor, Mini-Cinema 1950-52 associate editor, Courier 1952-53 film critic and columnist, Truth 1953-54 TV critic, The Observer 1954-55 film critic, Evening Standard 1954-56 drama critic, features editor, Spectator 1958-61 columnist, Daily Mail 1958-62 drama critic, Sunday Telegraph 1961-67 columnist, Sunday Dispatch 1962-63 political columnist, Sunday Pictorial 1963-64 columnist, New Statesman 1966-72 columnist, Punch 1972-84 diarist, Sunday Times 1967-75 film critic 1976-84
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