Philip Jenkinson (17 August 1935 – 11 March 2012)[1] was an English cinema specialist, journalist, BBC television presenter, and film collector.
During the 1970s, Jenkinson contributed a weekly column for the television listings magazine Radio Times and edited films for the BBC Two music show The Old Grey Whistle Test.
He had severe asthma as a child and consequently missed much school, so the milkman gave his mother a 9.5mm projector to keep him amused, and by that means he started watching films.
His mother disapproved, believing he'd pick up too many germs, but he would put his swimming trunks under the tap before returning home so that she would not discover the deception.
[3] Philip Jenkinson said in a 2003 interview: "One day when I was giving a lecture at St Martin's School of Art, a BBC producer, Mike Appleton, was waiting at the back to pick up his girlfriend and he caught the last 10 minutes.
He was later asked by Late Night Live producer Rowan Ayers to help him launch The Beatles Abbey Road album.
During the 1970s, Jenkinson also contributed a weekly column for the television listings magazine Radio Times and edited films for music show The Old Grey Whistle Test.
He received up to 50 letters a week asking him to show certain film clips and was satirised by Monty Python in their sketch "Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days"".