Mordaunt Hall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mordaunt Hall

American film critic

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1878

Place of Birth: Guildford, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 02-Jul-1973

Profession: journalist, film critic

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Mordaunt Hall (1 November 1878 – 2 July 1973) was the first regularly assigned motion picture critic for The New York Times, working from October 1924 to September 1934.His writing style was described in his Times obituary as "chatty, irreverent, and not particularly analytical.
[…] The interest of other critics in analyzing cinematographic techniques was not for him."