Career
Until 2010 he was senior editor of the Arts and Leisure weekly section of The New York Times as well as a film critic. Among the newspapers for which Van Gelder has worked are the New York Daily Mirror, the New York Journal-American and the World-Journal-Tribune. He began working at the Times in May 1967.
Lawrence Van Gelder died of leiomyosarcoma on March 11, 2016, aged 83.
