Powell, Dilys (1901-1995)

English writer, broadcaster, and film critic. She wrote for the Sunday Times and served as a governor of the British Film Institute from 1948 to 1952. She was appointed CBE in 1974.

Powell was educated at Somerville College, Oxford University, and worked for the Sunday Times from 1928 to 1931, and again from 1939, continuing to write weekly reviews until 1976. Her books include Descent from Parnassus (1934), An Affair of the Heart (1957), and The Villa Ariadne (1973). Her collected film reviews, The Golden Screen, was published in 1989.