Victor Lewis-Smith was a British film, television and radio producer, a television and restaurant critic, a satirist and newspaper columnist.
14 Facts About Victor Lewis-Smith
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Victor Lewis-Smith was an alumnus of the University of York and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Westminster in November 2008.
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Victor Lewis-Smith worked for Radio Medway before going on to study music at the University of York, where he presented the "bizarre student TV show" Intimate Freshness under the name "Damien Filth".
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Victor Lewis-Smith owned a film, television and radio production company called Associated Rediffusion Productions Limited, having in 1990 acquired the rights to the name and logo of the original company, Associated-Rediffusion.
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Victor Lewis-Smith contributed to a number of productions for British television:.
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In December 2018, Victor Lewis-Smith made three more documentaries in the style of The Undiscovered Peter Cook for Sky Arts, this time concerning Peter Sellers, Kenneth Williams and Tony Hancock.
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Victor Lewis-Smith was executive producer of a series of controversial documentaries presented by Keith Allen for Channel 4.
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Victor Lewis-Smith was executive producer of a series of 44 television programmes called 21st-Century Bach - The Complete Organ Works.
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From 2010, Victor Lewis-Smith was the executive producer of In Confidence, a series of one-to-one interviews, featuring leading figures from the arts.
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Victor Lewis-Smith released two cassettes of his comedy, Tested on Humans for Irritancy and Nuisance Calls.
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Victor Lewis-Smith wrote weekly columns during the same period for the short-lived Sunday Correspondent and The Mail on Sunday, as well as Esquire magazine.
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In 1992, Victor Lewis-Smith began a long association with the London Evening Standard, contributing daily television reviews along with other writers, as well as occasional restaurant reviews and travel articles.
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Victor Lewis-Smith wrote a weekly page for the Daily Mirror for some years until 2003.
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Victor Lewis-Smith's books included Buy-Gones and Inside the Magic Rectangle, a collection of his early Evening Standard TV reviews, and TV Reviews, a collection of his Evening Standard TV reviews since 2000.