User:Antony Earnshaw

Tony Earnshaw (born 1966 in Rastrick, Yorkshire, England) is a journalist and author specialising in film.

The long-time film critic for The Yorkshire Post he has written extensively on film for that newspaper since 1986. He has also written for dozens of other publications in the UK, the US, Australia and Europe. They include Sight & Sound, Cinema Retro, Impact, Starburst, Film Review, Scarlet Street, Hammer Horror, Fangoria, Little Shoppe of Horrors, Diabolique, Profile, Satellite Times, Absolute Leeds, .cent, We Belong Dead and Star Wars: The Official Magazine.

Earnshaw has written the books An Actor and a Rare One - Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, Beating the Devil - The Making of Night of the Demon, Made in Yorkshire (with Jim Moran), The Christmas Ghost Stories of Lawrence Gordon Clark (as editor), Studies in the Horror Film: Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot (as editor) and Under Milk Wood Revisited: The Wales of Dylan Thomas (with Mark Davis). He has edited several limited edition monographs, most recently on Eric Portman, Lawrence Gordon Clark, Peter Cushing and Stanley Baker.

Earnshaw was artistic director of Bradford International Film Festival from 2000 to 2011. He also created the Fantastic Films Weekend, held at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, and directed ten editions. For the British Film Institute he has programmed film seasons on Richard Burton and Steve McQueen at the National Film Theatre.

His first book An Actor and a Rare One - Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes (2001, Scarecrow Press) was the recipient of the Special Sherlock Award from Sherlock magazine in 2002.