Charles Davenport Champlin was an American film critic and writer.
12 Facts About Charles Champlin
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Charles Champlin attended high school in Camden, New York, working as a columnist for the Camden Advance-Journal and editor Florence Stone.
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Charles Champlin's family has been active in the wine industry in upstate New York since 1855.
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Charles Champlin served in the infantry in Europe in World War II and was awarded the Purple Heart and battle stars.
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Charles Champlin graduated from Harvard University in 1948 and joined Life magazine.
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Charles Champlin joined the Los Angeles Times as entertainment editor and columnist in 1965, was its principal film critic from 1967 to 1980, and wrote book reviews and a regular column titled "Critic at Large".
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Charles Champlin co-founded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and has been a board member of the American Cinematheque.
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Charles Champlin has interviewed hundreds of film personalities, first on the Z Channel's On the Film Scene in Los Angeles, then with Champlin on Film on Bravo.
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Charles Champlin taught film criticism at Loyola Marymount University from 1969 to 1985, was adjunct professor of film at USC from 1985 to 1996, and has taught at UC Irvine and the AFI Conservatory.
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Charles Champlin has written many books, including his biographies Back There where the Past Was and A Life in Writing.
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In 1980 Charles Champlin was on the jury of the feature film competition at that year's Cannes Film Festival, serving alongside the likes of Kirk Douglas, Ken Adam and Leslie Caron.
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Charles Champlin died on November 16,2014, aged 88, suffering from Alzheimer's disease.