Charles Champlin

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Charles Champlin (born 1926 in Hammondsport, New York) is an American film critic and writer.

Champlin was the principal film critic for The Los Angeles Times from 1965 - 1980. He has written many cinema-related books, including George Lucas: The Creative Impulse (1997) and Hollywood's Revolutionary Decade (1998), a collection of some of his film reviews from the 1970s.

He has been suffering from macular degeneration since the late-1990s, and in 2001 wrote My Friend, You Are Legally Blind, a memoir about his struggle with the blinding disease.