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Billington was married to Katherine Kristoff (1956-1998) from 1988 to 1998. They had a son, Michael. Michael Billington died of cancer on 3 June 2005, at the age of 63.
Michael Billington may refer to: Michael Billington (actor) (1941–2005), British film and television actor Michael Billington (critic) (born 1939), British author and arts critic
Michael Keith Billington (born 16 November 1939) is a British author and arts critic. [1] He writes for The Guardian , and was the paper's chief drama critic from 1971 to 2019. [ 2 ] Billington is "Britain's longest-serving theatre critic" and the author of biographical and critical studies relating to British theatre and the arts.
In January 2008, Billington debated London School of Economics Asia expert James Putzel on Iranian television, as part of the English-language Press TV's "Four Corners" program. The topic of the discussion was the insurgency in the southern part of the Philippines , and whether it is a solely indigenous problem, or whether American interests ...
The director had been sent a script by actor Michael Billington which Wickes said, "needed a re-write, but I liked it because it was about a very human thing — dreaming the impossible dream. Tony Williams liked it too, so I went to see David Essex. I thought he might be interested because he was a keen biker himself." [5]
The episode introduces Colonel Paul Foster (Michael Billington), who was to become a regular character for the rest of the series. The series was created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill , and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grade 's Century 21 Productions for Grade's ITC Entertainment company.
The Guardian ' s Michael Billington gave the play four out of five stars, praising the first scene highly but writing that "the journey from the farmhouse reality of the first scene to the cosmic chaos of the last is too swift [...] Churchill's best effects are achieved through the sudden injection of shock words that set off seismic disturbances."
Michael Billington wrote in the same newspaper that Mrs Jarrett's speeches are "less effective as they go along" but praised the garden conversations, praising one exchange as "Churchill at her best, observing with wry compassion how people actually talk". [3]