* 1950 – Richard Ouzounian, Canadian / American theatre director and critic

She played a child psychiatrist in the film noir Shadow on the Wall ( 1950 ) with Ann Sothern and Zachary Scott ; her performance was called " beautiful and convincing " by New York Times critic A. H. Weiler.

* 1885 – Carl Clinton Van Doren, American biographer and critic ( d. 1950 )

Needing to earn a living, in 1950 he accepted the post of music critic for a communist newspaper in Paris.

From 1950 to 1955, he was the book critic for Galaxy Science Fiction.

* Ali-Akbar Fayyaz, founder of the School of Letters and Humanities, professor in the Department of Persian Language and Literature between 1950 and 1972, a renowned historian of early Islam and literary critic

Leonard Maltin ( born December 18, 1950 ) is an American film critic and historian, author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives.

* Robert J. C. Young ( born 1950 ), British post-colonial theorist, cultural critic and historian

In 1950, Kennan left the Department of State, except for two brief ambassadorial stints in Moscow and Yugoslavia and became a leading realist critic of U. S. foreign policy.

In 1950, Sanders drew his greatest popular and commercial success as the acerbic, cold-blooded theatre critic Addison DeWitt, in All About Eve, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

One exception was her statement to a Time magazine critic that The Instant, a painting that appeared in her 1950 show at the Catherine Viviano gallery, was “ a sort of showing of what ’ s inside — things half mechanical, half alive .”

* Dave Marsh ( born 1950 ), American music critic

* Der Nister ( 1884 – 1950 ), pen name of Pinchas Kaganovich ( Kahanovich ), a Yiddish author, philosopher, translator, and critic

Carl Clinton Van Doren ( September 10, 1885 – July 18, 1950 ) was a U. S. critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer.

* Richard Ouzounian – ( born 1950 ) Armenian by adoption ; playwright, director, critic, artistic director

By the time his second book appeared, The Fall of Magicians ( New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947 ), Kees had already been painting for more than a year and had befriended a number of Abstract Expressionism artists, including Willem De Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, as well as the critic Clement Greenberg — whose column Kees took over at The Nation from 1948 to 1950.

Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1950 in the tradition of modernist literature in the English language, but the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in question, and the biases of the critic setting the dates.

* John M. Culkin, 1950, media scholar and critic, educator, writer, and consultant.

* William A. Henry III ( 1950 – 1994 ), United States author and cultural critic

Alfons Hug ( b. 1950 in Hochdorf, Southern Germany ) is a curator, critic and exhibition organizer.

Michael Sprinker ( 8 February 1950 in Elgin, Illinois – 12 August 1999 ) was a literary critic known for his writings on Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, among others, as well as for his editorial work at Verso, Cambridge University Press, the New Left Review and The Minnesota Review.

Cesare Pavese (; 9 September 1908 – 27 August 1950 ) was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator.

Edward Hirsch ( born January 20, 1950 ) is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry.

Arnaldo ( Arnie ) Pagliarini Lerma ( born November 18, 1950 ) is an American writer and activist, a former Scientologist, and critic of Scientology, who has appeared in television, media and radio interviews.

* Nicholas Cook ( born 1950 ), musicologist

Davitt Moroney ( born 23 December 1950 ) is a British-born and educated musicologist, harpsichordist and organist.

Ernani Henrique Chaves Aguiar ( born 30 August 1950, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ) is a Brazilian composer, choral conductor, and musicologist.

From London's West End, Keel ended up at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, making his film musical debut as Frank Butler in the movie version of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun ( 1950 ).

His only singing role was as Cosmo Constantine in the original 1950 Broadway stage version of Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam, opposite Ethel Merman ( although he is heard singing a song in the 1933 film Little Women, displaying a pleasant voice ).

Among those worked for INS were future broadcasters William Shirer, Edwin Newman and Irving R. Levine, who in 1950 covered the outbreak of war in Korea for INS.

In 1950, Ernest Lehman, a former publicity writer for Irving Hoffman of The Hollywood Reporter, wrote a story for Cosmopolitan titled " Tell Me About It Tomorrow ".

At least two movie versions of The Glass Menagerie have been produced, the first directed by Irving Rapper in 1950, starring Gertrude Lawrence, Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Ann Tyrrell and Arthur Kennedy, and the second by Paul Newman in 1987, starring Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, and James Naughton.

With George Balanchine, he choreographed Jones Beach at the City Center Theater in 1950, and directed and choreographed Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam, starring Ethel Merman.

* Lines to a Pomeranian Puppy Valued at $ 3500 ( 1950 ), musical adaptation of Untermeyer poem by Irving Ravin

* Irving Saypol ( Acting ): October 1949-April 13, 1950

Irving Leroy Ress ( left ), Charles Coburn ( right ), ca 1950.

* 1950 Ball clock ( likely designed by Irving Harper )

* Music of Irving Berlin, 1950, Columbia Masterworks MM / ML-4314

Coming to the United States in 1950 on a Fulbright fellowship ( as expanded to include Egypt via the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 ), El-Dabh studied composition with John Donald Robb and Ernst Krenek at the University of New Mexico ; with Francis Judd Cooke at the New England Conservatory of Music ; with Aaron Copland, Irving Fine, and Luigi Dallapiccola at the Berkshire Music Center ; and with Irving Fine at Brandeis University.

Joe E. Brown and Irving Leroy Ress ( right ) c. 1950

Mager was on the faculty of the New England Conservatory, and was a teacher to some of the most influential trumpeters of the mid-twentieth century, including Adolph Herseth ( who became principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ), Roger Voisin ( who replaced Mager as principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1950, Bernard Adelstein ( who became principal trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra ), Irving Sarin ( who became principal trumpet of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and respected teacher in his own right ), and Renold Schilke ( who joined the trumpet section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and later became an important trumpet maker ).