Career
Tony Sloman is a cinema critic and historian, whose long career has encompassed many facets of film making. He has worked intermittently in the film and television industry since 1964, as an actor, director, editor, sound editor, production manager, producer and screenwriter. In the 1970s he directed two X-Rated British sex films - Not Tonight, Darling! (1971) and Foursome (1972).
He has written a regular internet film column, "Sunset and Wardour" for the "International Film Studio" and he also contributes film criticism for the British Broadcasting Corporation weekly listings magazine Radio Times.
He once finished second on the British Broadcasting Corporation quiz programme "Film Buff of the Year". He has also programmed several retrospectives for the National Film Theatre.
Sloman has interviewed such figures as Sir David Lean, Ann Miller and Stanley Donen for the Guardian Interview series. He has also written many obituaries of film figures for The Independent.