Mitchum

Jerry Roberts was film critic for 11 years for Copley Los Angeles Newspapers (Daily Breeze, Santa Monica Evening Outlook) and a film columnist for the former San Diego-based Copley News Service and the former Redmond, WA, based-Cinemania.com. He was a film-industry writer for two decades for Daily Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and the former DGA Magazine. He is the author of 19 books, including Mitchum: In His Own Words (2000), The Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors (2009), and The Complete History of American Film Criticism (2010). He has been vice president, secretary, and programming chair of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.