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LIFE Born in Bolton , Lancashire , Halliwell was captivated by the Film s from an early age. A Scholarship boy from a modest background, he studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge before holding a number of jobs in film Journalism and Cinema management. After working for a decade as a researcher and buyer for Southern Television and then Granada Television , in 1968 he took responsibility for purchasing for the entire ITV network. In 1982 , at the personal invitiation of Jeremy Isaacs , he became buyer of U.S. films for Channel 4 . He retired in 1986 . Halliwell's personal tastes were conservative. He had a preference for the cinema of the 1930s and 1940s and no great appetite for foreign-language films.In his "Film Guide",he gave ratings of 0 stars to 4 stars for films; however, with films from 1970 onwards, he gave none a rating of 4 stars, reflecting his general dislike of modern cinema. John Walker, who took over the editorship after his death,,has changed these ingrained opinions and is more liberal with film ratings. Halliwell's professional knowledge of the entire gamut of cinema is still seen in his Encyclopedia s '' The Filmgoers' Companion '' (first published 1965 ), '' Halliwell's Film Guide '' (first published 1977 ) and '' Halliwell's Television Companion '' (first published 1979 as ''Halliwell's Teleguide''). After his retirement, he wrote for the '' Daily Mail ''. He also published a number of historical and critical works about the cinema. He married Ruth Porter in 1959 and they had one son. Halliwell died of Cancer in a Hospice in Esher , Surrey . BIBLIOGRAPHY
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