(2 August 1939 - 30 August 2015)
Film actor, writer, producer and director noted especially for horror subjects such as The Hills Have Eyes I & II, Scream and its three sequels, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Shocker, Vampire in Brooklyn etc, as well as lighter fare, Music of the Heart, with Meryl Streep and the thriller Red Eye with Rachel McAdams.
MICHAEL DARVELL
Michael Darvell
Michael Darvell trained as a librarian at Watford and in Surrey before joining Ealing Libraries where he became Music Librarian for the borough. He edited Masthead, the magazine of the University of North London School of Librarianship, The Surrealist, the staff magazine of Surrey County Library, and contributed to the Assistant Librarian and London Librarian professional journals. A freelance film reviewer since 1970, he has written for Film, Films Illustrated, Film Review, Movie Maker and Radio Times, as well as editing Montage, the London film societies magazine, for ten years. A change of career saw him joining What’s On in London as Features Editor and he eventually stepped into the shoes of the late F. Maurice Speed (founding father of Film Review annual) as the magazine’s Editor. From 2007 to 2015, he was co-editor of the Film Review annual with Mansel Stimpson. As well as writing about films, Michael has reviewed theatre for The Stage newspaper, and has written about music theatre and cabaret for the Classical Source and Musical Theatre Review websites. He is also a former restaurant critic for the ViewLondon website. Michael has been a member of the London Film Critics’ Circle since 2005.
