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Endpoint: Bruce Williamson (Film Critic)



created on: 29/09/2020
by: Lo55o (12521)
 
 

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Bruce Williamson (born ca. 1927 in Cadillac, Michigan - died Oct. 6, 1998 in New York, USA (aged 71)) was a longtime film critic and contributing editor at Playboy magazine

A native of Cadillac, Mich., Williamson served a postwar stint in the Army in New York and settled there to attend Columbia U on the GI Bill. He later turned to acting and appeared in a number of Off Broadway productions and several live TV shows that emanated from Manhattan.

After stints as chief usher for CBS’ “Ed Sullivan Show” and rewriting “confessions” for teen magazines, he joined Julius Monk’s cabaret group, Upstairs at Downstairs, for which he wrote a variety of witty pieces through the years.

In the early 1960s, Williamson became a film critic, first for Time magazine then for Life magazine before moving over to Playboy in 1968.

Mr. Williamson began writing film criticism for Time magazine in the 1960s, worked briefly for Life magazine and then joined Playboy in 1968. He was the magazine's film critic until his retirement in June.

In addition to his monthly reviews, Williamson also contributed movie-related pieces, such as “Off Camera,” in which he would spotlight emerging screen talent. He also penned many of Playboy’s annual “Sex in Cinema” columns and is credited with coining the phrase “porno chic.”

Williamson’s favorite assignments, however, were the Playboy interviews he conducted during the 1970s with movie icon Bette Davis (an idol of his) and director Robert Altman, whom he interviewed during the filming of “Nashville.”

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Williamson wrote a movie column for New Woman magazine and just a month ago began contributing what was to have been a regular movie column for Diversions, a monthly Hearst publication.

Williamson was a longtime member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics.

He died Oct. 6 1998 of bladder cancer at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.
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Submitted by : Lo55o (12521)
on : 29/09/2020