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Champlin, Charles
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Charles Davenport Champlin was born in Bath, New York on March 23, 1926. During World War II, he joined the Army and saw combat in Germany, where he was injured by a German mortar shell. He received a degree in English from Harvard University in 1948. He worked for Life magazine and for Time magazine before becoming the entertainment editor of The Los Angeles Times in 1965. He was the lead movie critic for The Los Angeles Times from 1967 until 1980 and reviewed books thereafter. He also wrote a column entitled Critic at Large.
He wrote several books during his lifetime including Back There Where the Past Was: A Small-Town Boyhood, Hollywood's Revolutionary Decade: Charles Champlin Reviews the Movies of the 1970s, A Life in Writing: The Story of an American Journalist, and My Friend, You Are Legally Blind: A Writer Struggles with Macular Degeneration. He died on November 16, 2014 at the age of 88.
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