| LC control no. | n 79055208 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Halliwell, Leslie |
| Variant(s) | Halliwell, Robert James Leslie, 1929-1989 |
| Birth date | 1929-02-23 |
| Death date | 1989-01-21 |
| Place of birth | Bolton (Greater Manchester, England) |
| Place of death | Esher (England) |
| Profession or occupation | Film critics |
| Found in | Author's The filmgoer's companion, c1965. Author's Halliwell's Hundred, 1982: t.p. (Leslie Halliwell) fore. (b. 1929) His Halliwell's film guide, c1989: t.p. (Leslie Halliwell) data sheet (d. Jan. 1989) Wikipedia, June 6, 2017 (Leslie Halliwell; Robert James Leslie Halliwell (23 February 1929--21 January 1989) was a British film critic and encyclopaedist (and television impresario) who in 1965 compiled The Filmgoer's Companion, the first one-volume encyclopaedia devoted to all aspects of the cinema; he followed it a dozen years later with Halliwell's Film Guide, another monumental work of effort and devotion; in the era before the internet, Halliwell's books were regarded as the number one source for movie information, and his name became synonymous with film knowledge and research; he was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England and died in Esher, Surrey, England) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Halliwell> |
| Associated language | eng |
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