Robin Duval

Robin Arthur Philip Duval

CBE (born 1941) was Director of the British Board of Film Classification, (the "Film Censor"), from 1999 to 2004.^[1]

Duval was educated at

BBC radio and as a TV advertisement writer and producer at J. Walter Thompson. In 1968 he joined the Central Office of Information (COI), eventually becoming their Head of Television and Film Production. He then became Deputy Director of Programmes at the Independent Television Commission before succeeding James Ferman as Director of the BBFC in 1999.^[2]

His directorship was marked by his 2000 decision no longer to cut films for adults (unless they broke criminal law).[3] He also abolished the '12' age-based rating for cinema, replacing it with an advisory '12A' rating.^{[citation needed]}

On retirement from the BBFC, he was appointed

New Years Honours for services to the film industry. Duval was succeeded by David Cooke

.

In his personal life, Duval's interests include attending concerts, operas and football matches. He is married with four daughters.[4]

Since he retired from the BBFC he has become a novelist, writing political thrillers set against an international backdrop. Bear in the Woods was published in 2010, its follow-up Below the Thunder in 2013 and Not Single Spies in 2015. However his latest novel, Going to America, published in 2021, explores a quite different theme: the conflict between age and youth as an old and once famous actor takes his granddaughter on the trip of a lifetime to New Orleans.

References

^ Brooke, Michael. "Duval, Robin (1941-)". screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 7 May 2009.
^ http://www.bbfc.co.uk/newsreleases/2004/03/bbfc-director-robin-duval-to-retire/ ^{[dead link]}
^ BFI website http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/458208/index.html
^ Williams, Rhys (12 January 1999). "Britain's new censor in at the deep end". The Independent. London.

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[1] Brooke, Michael. "Duval, Robin (1941-)". screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 7 May 2009.

[2] ttp://www.bbfc.co.uk/newsreleases/2004/03/bbfc-director-robin-duval-to-retire/ ^{[dead link]}

[3] BFI website http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/458208/index.html

[4] Williams, Rhys (12 January 1999). "Britain's new censor in at the deep end". The Independent. London.

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