Mordaunt Hall

Mordaunt Hall
Born
Frederick William Mordaunt Hall

(1878-11-01)November 1, 1878
Guildford, Surrey, England
DiedJuly 2, 1973(1973-07-02) (aged 94)
New York City, US
Occupation(s)Writer, critic

Mordaunt Hall (1 November 1878 – 2 July 1973)[1] was the first regularly assigned motion picture critic for The New York Times, working from October 1924 to September 1934.[2]

His writing style was described in his Times obituary as "chatty, irreverent, and not particularly analytical. […] The interest of other critics in analyzing cinematographic techniques was not for him."[2]

  1. ^ Social Security Death Index.
  2. ^ a b "Mordaunt Hall, Wrote of Screen", New York Times, July 4, 1973, p. 18.