Milton Shulman
 Milton Shulman     (author, critic, spook) | |
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| Born | 1 September 1913 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | 24 May 2004 (Age 90) London, U.K. |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Children | • Jason Shulman • Alexandra Shulman • Nicola Shulman |
| Spouse | • Joyce Shulman • Drusilla Beyfus |
Canadian author, film and theatre critic based in the United Kingdom. In the early 1990s, Shulman supported OpJB and John Ainsworth-Davis as legitimate. | |
Milton Shulman was a Canadian author, film and theatre critic who was based in the United Kingdom from 1943.
In the early 1990s, Shulman supported OpJB and John Ainsworth-Davis as legitimate.
Early life
Shulman was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of a successful shopkeeper. His parents were born in Ukraine and were driven out of the Russian Empire by poverty and anti-Jewish pogroms. Shulman's father was only 26 when he died of the flu epidemic but had already acquired three millinery shops as well as a men's haberdashery.
Shulman was educated at Harbord Collegiate, then spent four years at the University of Toronto. Although he wished to pursue a writing career, he was articled to a law firm, attending lectures at Osgoode Hall Law School for a further three years before being called to the Ontario bar just before World War II broke out in 1939.
War service
After the phoney war period, Shulman signed up for the Canadian army, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Canadian Armoured Corps and posted to England in June 1943. Stationed in London as a captain he was assigned to the secret operational intelligence unit MI 14b, dealing with the order of battle of the Wehrmacht's formations.
He joined Canadian Army HQ three months before D-Day as a major and by the war's end he was an intelligence officer with the First Canadian Army. While still in uniform, he interviewed many of the captured German generals in the following months and years including Gerd von Rundstedt and Kurt Meyer. As a result of these interviews, he wrote the Second World War military history Defeat in the West, published in London by Secker & Warburg in April 1947, and by Dutton in New York in January 1948.
London career
Shulman joined the staff of the London Evening Standard in 1948 and, for over forty years, wrote about theatre, film, television and politics with sharp humour and irreverence.[1] He was theatre critic for the Standard from 1953 until November 1991, and remained a weekly columnist until February 1996. He had initially become the Standard 's film critic in 1948 and later became film critic for Vogue. For 18 years he was a regular participant in BBC Radio 4's talk show Stop The Week.
He died in London, aged 90.[2]
OpJB
- Full article: Op JB
- Full article: Op JB
Shulman reportedly advised John Ainsworth Davis on Op JB and put an account of this collaboration in his autobiography, Marilyn, Hitler & Me.[3]
References
- ↑ Stevens, Christopher (2010). Born Brilliant The Life of Kenneth Williams. John Murray. p. 368. ISBN 978-1-84854-195-5.
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/sep/10/art1
- ↑ http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=99962
