Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

Austin Trevor debuted the role of Poirot on screen in the 1931 British film Alibi.

* Atlantic ( film ), a black and white British film

It is referenced in the 2006 film Amazing Grace, which highlights Newton's influence on the leading British abolitionist William Wilberforce.

* Adrian Hodges, British television and film writer

* In the 1981 British fantasy film Time Bandits, Agamemnon is played by Sean Connery.

* Associated Talking Pictures, a British film studio of the 1930s later renamed as Ealing Studios

In the 2003 film Hitler: The Rise of Evil, British actor Robert Glenister plays Drexler, although Drexler is portrayed without his trademark spectacles and moustache.

* Associated British Corporation, a former British film and television company

However, in a 2005 poll by British film magazine Empire, Braveheart was # 1 on their list of " The Top 10 Worst Best Pictures ".

Today, the film is seen by the British Film Institute as one of Chaplin's " great features ", while David Robinson says it shows the star at " his unrivalled peak as a creator of visual comedy.

The British film industry produced a number of highly successful film series, however, including the Doctor series, the St. Trinian's films and the increasingly bawdy Carry On films.

Another example is the place of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) in American and British gay culture, although a widely viewed and historically important film in greater American culture.

Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film.

The film's title was inspired by the line, " Bring me my chariot of fire ," from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn " Jerusalem "; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.

* The Cardinal ( 1936 film ), a British historical drama

The idea of an " aerial torpedo " was shown in the British 1909 film The Airship Destroyer, where flying torpedoes controlled wirelessly are used to bring down airships bombing London.

He went on to play Guilford Dudley in the British film Lady Jane, co-starring Helena Bonham Carter.

* Conspirator, a 1949 British film

Brown himself received six Academy Award nominations and in 1949 won the British Academy Award for the film version of William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust.

The film was produced by independent British producer Jeremy Thomas.

In 1961 Dave Brubeck appeared in a few scenes of the British Jazz / Beat film All Night Long, which starred Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough.

" In film as in society at large, America ’ s influence has now reached levels and depths previously unimaginable ," said critic Geoff Brown, referring to the Americanisation of British film culture in the 1990s.

Conversely, BBC critic Mark Kermode believes that " the movie industries of Britain and America are inextricably intertwined ", citing numerous examples of how Hollywood provides work to British production staff and studios, whilst Britain enables Hollywood to base their prestigious productions at UK studios.

* 1943 – Terry Eagleton, British literary critic and philosopher

* John A. Walker ( born 1938 ), British art critic and historian

Lindsay Gordon Anderson ( 17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994 ) was an Indian-born, British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave.

Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.

* 6-Kathleen Raine, 95, British poet and literary critic.

* 20-Ian MacDonald, 54, British music critic.

A chance encounter in a Los Angeles bookstore with the British expatriate writer Christopher Isherwood gave Bradbury the opportunity to put The Martian Chronicles into the hands of a respected critic.

A recent critic, who is a legal as well as a literary scholar, argues that Old Mortality not only reflects the evolution of Scottish nationalism but also invokes a foundational moment in British sovereignty, namely, the Act of Habeas corpus ( also known as the Great Writ ), passed by the English Parliament in 1679.

B. Priestley denounced the play and Leigh's performance ; and the critic Kenneth Tynan commented that Leigh was badly miscast because British actors were " too well-bred to emote effectively on stage ".

* Samuel Johnson, British writer, lexicographer, poet, and literary critic

* November 16 – Michael Billington, British drama critic

* August 28 – Leigh Hunt, British critic and essayist ( b. 1784 )

** C. S. Lewis, Irish-born British critic, novelist ( The Chronicles of Narnia ) and Christian apologist ( b. 1898 )

** Robert Barnard, British writer, critic and lecturer

* July 14 – F. R. Leavis, British literary critic ( d. 1978 )

* April 19 – William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer ( b. 1856 )

** Maurice Bowra, British critic ( b. 1898 )

* April 14 – F. R. Leavis, British literary critic ( b. 1895 )

* April 12 – William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

** Leigh Hunt, British critic and essayist ( d. 1859 )

British film critic Peter Lloyd, for example, described Edwards, in 1971, as " the finest director working in the American commercial cinema at the present time.

A strong critic of Heidegger's philosophy was the British logical positivist A. J. Ayer.