12 Facts About Milton Shulman

Milton Shulman was a Canadian author, film and theatre critic who was based in the United Kingdom from 1943.

Milton Shulman's parents were born in Ukraine and were driven out of the Russian Empire by poverty and anti-Jewish pogroms.

Milton Shulman's father was only 26 when he died of the flu epidemic but had already acquired three millinery shops as well as a men's haberdashery.

Milton Shulman was educated at Harbord Collegiate, then spent four years at the University of Toronto.

Milton Shulman joined Canadian Army HQ three months before D-Day as a major and by the war's end he was an intelligence officer with the First Canadian Army.

Milton Shulman joined the staff of the London Evening Standard in 1948 and, for over forty years, wrote about theatre, film, television and politics with sharp humour and irreverence.

Milton Shulman was theatre critic for the Standard from 1953 until November 1991, and remained a weekly columnist until February 1996.

Milton Shulman initially become the Standards film critic in 1948 and later became film critic for Vogue.

Milton Shulman received the IPA Award as Critic of the Year 1966.

Milton Shulman married his first wife Joyce in Toronto in 1943, two months before he embarked on a troopship for England, and never saw her again.

Milton Shulman was the most decorative aspect of the Daily Express, where her elegant figure, piquant face and ever-smiling personality were in constant demand by feature writers and columnists.

Milton Shulman described his family as less a journalistic dynasty than "an epidemic".