Roger Manvell

After graduating from university, Roger Manvell spent ten years as a schoolteacher and lecturer until 1940, when he joined the Films Division of the wartime Ministry of Information. After the war, he joined the British Film Institute as its Research Officer. He lectured on cinema topics all over Britain and also in the Middle East and across Europe. Famous as an author or editor of film books in the 1950s, he also wrote some television plays and scripts for a children's TV series. He regularly made appearances on British radio as a film critic and lecturer.