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Philip John Purser (28 August 1925 – 1 August 2022) was a British television critic and novelist.
Purser was born inLetchworth,Hertfordshire on 28 August 1925. His mother had been the first female student of an art school inSheffield, and later worked as a postcard artist in the style ofMabel Lucie Attwell. After service inWorld War I, his father eventually worked forTarmac inLiverpool from 1934 when the family settled in theWirral Peninsula. Purser had an older sister, Rozanne.[1]
A contributor to theNews Chronicle in the 1950s, he was television critic ofThe Sunday Telegraph from its launch in 1961 until he was sacked in 1987 byPeregrine Worsthorne, the then editor. Purser co-authored two editions ofHalliwell's Television Companion (1982, 1986, originallyHalliwell's Teleguide 1979) and wrote a TV filmThe One and Only Phyllis Dixey (Peek-A-Boo) on the wartime erotic entertainer forThames Television in 1978. A biography of Dixey (co-authored with Jenny Wilkes) was published in the same year.
Purser contributed obituaries toThe Guardian. He was married to the crime writer Ann Purser; the couple had two daughters and one son. Purser died from Alzheimer's disease on 1 August 2022, at the age of 96.[2]
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