The way we were. © Critics' Circle Archives
We’ve recently discovered some old photographs in the archives…
A Circle dinner held at Claridges in 1949 – Hermione Gingold and Mary Ellis are on the top table and the film actress Rosamund John is in the forefront on the left by the table card 14. © Critics’ Circle
Glynis Johns and Robert Donat at the S R Littlewood dinner in 1947 . © Critics’ Circle
Ralph Richardson and Meriel Forbes at a the same dinner. © Critics’ Circle
Meriel Forbes and Ralph Richardson. © Critics’ Circle
Robert Donat with S R Littlewood and the Earl Of Bessborough. © Critics’ Circle
Sybil Thorndyke with another guest at a dinner held at the Savoy in September 1947 to mark the Golden Jubilee of S R Littlewood, Editor of the Stage and a founder of the Circle. © Critics’ Circle
Donald Wolfit and his wife Rosalind Iden at a Circle dinner in the 1950s. © Critics’ Circle
Our first three Film Awards – they began in 1980 – were held at the National Film Theatre on the South Bank.
1981 Bernardo Bertolucci presents an award at the NFT for Man of Iron. (Bolewslaw Sulik receiving and critic Tom Hutchinson, left) © Critics’ Circle
Andi and Pam Engel (Artificial Eye), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Best Screenwriter for Heat and Dust), critic Tom Hutchinson, Ken Wlaschin, and critic Peter Cargin in 1982. © Critics’ Circle
1980 – First film awards. Nicolas Roeg, Hanna Schygula, Lynne Frederick, Barry Spikings, Barbara Stone, Tim Hampton and Wilfred Beaver. © Critics Circle