Paul Beckley

{{Short description|American film critic}}

Paul V. Beckley (February 17, 1910 in Tulsa - November 29, 2008) was an American film critic, best known for his work with the New York Herald Tribune{{cite book|title=D. H. Lawrence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ECsubemMGekC&pg=PA169|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-8952-0|page=169}}{{cite book|last1=Baecque|first1=Antoine de|last2=Toubiana|first2=Serge|title=François Truffaut|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2H0AiDn4XIC&pg=PA159|year=2000|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-22524-4|page=159}}{{cite book|last=Fishgall|first=Gary|title=Gregory Peck: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJId3XPaeR0C&pg=PA355|year=2002|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-684-85290-4|page=355}} from 1941 to 1965.{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400EFDB113AF931A35751C1A96E9C8B63|title=Paid Notice: Deaths BECKLEY, PAUL V.|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2 December 2008|accessdate=30 August 2015}} Before joining the Tribune in New York City he worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Journal. In 1965 it was reported that he had joined the Radio-Television Daily,{{cite book|title=The Film Daily|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DA8PAQAAIAAJ|year=1965|publisher=Wid's Films and Film Folk Incorporated|page=106}} and he became a senior writer for the 6 o'clock CBS news.

He is buried at Pinelawn Memorial Park.