What is Philip French?
{{infobox person |name = Philip French |image = |caption = |honorific_suffix = [[Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|OBE]] |birth_name = Philip Neville French |birth_date = {{birth date|1933|8|28|df=yes}} |birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[England]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2015|10|27|1933|8|28|df=yes}} |death_place = |death_cause = [[Myocardial infarction|Heart attack]] |occupation = Film critic |years_active = 1957–2013 |spouse = Kersti French |children = 3 |education = [[Bristol Grammar School]] |alma_mater = [[Exeter College, Oxford]]<br>[[Indiana University Bloomington]] }} '''Philip Neville French''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (28 August 1933 – 27 October 2015) was a [[British people|British]] [[movie critic]] and former [[radio]] [[Radio producer|producer]]. French began his career in journalism in the late 1950s, before becoming a [[BBC Radio]] producer, and later a movie critic. He began writing for ''[[The Observer]]'' in 1963, and continued to write criticism regularly there until his [[retirement]] in 2013.<ref name=GuardObit>{{cite news|last1=Shoard|first1=Catherine|title=Philip French, much-loved Observer film critic, dies at the age of 82|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/27/philip-french-much-loved-observer-film-critic-dies-at-the-age-of-82|access-date=27 October 2015|work=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited|date=27 October 2015}}</ref> French was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] in December 2012.<ref name = GuardObit/> He died of a [[heart attack]] at the age of 82.<ref name=GuardObit/> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:French, Philip}} [[Category:1933 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford]] [[Category:British critics]] [[Category:Deaths from myocardial infarction]] [[Category:English journalists]] [[Category:Movie critics]] [[Category:Writers from Liverpool]] {{bio-stub}}