, Malaya (now Malaysia) – 14 December 2005) was a British film critic.

After war service, he studied English and French at Aberdeen University

University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen, an ancient university founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a British university. It is the third oldest university in Scotland, and the fifth oldest in the United Kingdom and wider English-speaking world...

 and later at the Sorbonne

University of Paris

The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...

. Interested in the theatre too, he wrote for the magazine Encore

Encore Theatre Magazine

Encore Theatre Magazine is an online magazine relating to contemporary theatre published in the United Kingdom. A monthly internet publication begun in July 2006, it is based on a now-defunct magazine of the same title , which had a brief but influential life from 1954 to 1965: Articles...

, which existed for a decade (1954 to 1965).

He wrote for Sight & Sound

Sight & Sound

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute .Sight & Sound was first published in 1932 and in 1934 management of the magazine was handed to the nascent BFI, which still publishes the magazine today...

, the Monthly Film Bulletin

Monthly Film Bulletin

The Monthly Film Bulletin was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 to April 1991. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those with a narrow arthouse release. The MFB was edited in the mid-1950s by David Robinson, in the late...

, The Observer

The Observer

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and The Times

The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

during his career. During the 1960s he was associate editor of S&S and editor of the MFB. His book length studies of film directors include monographs on Joseph Losey

Joseph Losey

Joseph Walton Losey was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood...

 (1967) and Rouben Mamoulian

Rouben Mamoulian

Rouben Mamoulian was an Armenian-American film and theatre director.-Biography:Born in Tbilisi, Georgia to an Armenian family, Rouben relocated to England and started directing plays in London in 1922...

 (1969) in the Thames & Hudson

Thames & Hudson

Thames & Hudson is a publisher of illustrated books on art, architecture, design, and visual culture. With its headquarters in London, England it has a sister company in New York and subsidiaries in Melbourne, Singapore and Hong Kong...

 Cinema One series, the former comprising a series of extended interviews with the director. He also wrote a short study on the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jr. was a Danish film director. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema.-Life:Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen, Denmark...

 (1971) and edited and translated an anthology of interviews and writings on Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....

 (1972).

In addition, Tom Milne oversaw the translation and subtitling of French films for television screenings and was the founding editor of the Time Out Film Guide, first published in 1989.