Mark Kermode
Biography
Mark Kermode is an English film critic, broadcaster, author and musician who began as a print journalist for Manchester's City Life before writing for Time Out and NME. Born in 1963, he started broadcasting on LBC in 1988 and later became a film critic for BBC Radio 1. He reviewed new releases with Simon Mayo on BBC Radio 5 Live's Kermode and Mayo's Film Review from 2001 to 2022; the program won Gold at the 2009 Sony Radio Academy Awards. He was chief film critic for The Observer from 2013 to 2023 and co-presents BBC Radio 4's Screenshot and the podcast Kermode & Mayo's Take. His documentaries include The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist (1998). He wrote BFI Modern Classics books on The Exorcist, Silent Running and The Shawshank Redemption, presented Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema, and plays double bass in the skiffle band the Dodge Brothers.
63years old
Turns 64 on July 2in 233 days
- Born Barnet
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
- Also credited as Mark James Patrick Kermode and Mark James Patrick Fairey
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 20 years1998 to 2018
Every film, newest first
- 2018BenjaminIMDb rating 6.5
- 2018Friedkin UncutIMDb rating 7.1
- 1998The Fear of God: 25 Years of The ExorcistIMDb rating 7.8
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A change of course
At the University of Manchester, Kermode earned a PhD in English in 1991, and his thesis was written on horror fiction.
Beyond film
In the early 1990s, Kermode was the double bass player in the Railtown Bottlers, a skiffle/rockabilly group. For one series of the BBC show Danny Baker After All, which began in 1993, the band served as house band.
A first
Since January 2016, Kermode has hosted MK3D, a live show held every month at the British Film Institute on the South Bank. No other live show at the BFI has run as long.
Behind the camera
As a writer, Mark Kermode worked with William Friedkin, the filmmaker he admired, on The Devil and Father Amorth, a documentary. The Venice Film Festival hosted its first showing on 31 August 2017.
Mark Kermode movies on Netflix
Worked with
Mark Kermode shares two films with Ellen Burstyn, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Ellen Burstyn's page
William Friedkin's page
Willem Dafoe's page
Michael Shannon's page
Max von Sydow's page
Gina Gershon's page
All films by Simon Amstell
Francesco ZippelDirector, 1 film, 2018
All films by Francesco Zippel
Nick Freand JonesDirector, 1 film, 1998
All films by Nick Freand Jones
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.