David Robinson (born 6 August 1930 in Lincoln) is an English film critic and author.
From 1997 to 2015, he was director of the Giornate del cinema muto silent film festival, which takes place in Pordenone, northern Italy, every October.
He played a part in the creation of the award-winning Museum of the Moving Image on London's South Bank which opened in 1988 and closed in 1999.
An illustrated biography entitled Charlie Chaplin: The Art of Comedy was published by Thames & Hudson in 1996, as part of their 'New Horizons' series.
This was serialised in the form of five supplementary magazines accompanying Sight and Sound from September 1994 to January 1995.