Derek Malcolm

Derek Elliston Michael Malcolm (May 12, 1932 – July 15, 2023) was an English film critic and historian. He worked for several decades as a film critic for The Guardian, having previously been an amateur National Hunt jockey, where he had 13 victories, then an actor, and the paper's first horse racing correspondent. After leaving The Guardian in 2000, he published his final series of articles, The Century of Films, in which he discussed films he admired from his favorite directors from around the world. He became chief film critic for the Evening Standard.