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| birth_place = [[Natchez, Mississippi]], United States
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| death_place = [[Cape Canaveral, Florida]], United States
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'''Howard Thompson''' (October 25, 1919 – March 10, 2002) was an American [[journalism|journalist]] and [[film critic]] whose career of forty-one years was spent at ''[[The New York Times]]''.

Henry Howard Thompson Jr. was born in [[Natchez, Mississippi|Natchez]], the [[county seat|seat]] of [[Mississippi]]'s [[Adams County, Mississippi|Adams County]]. He began his college studies at [[Louisiana State University]], but left to serve as a [[paratrooper]] in the [[United States Army]] during World War II. During this period, Thompson was captured and spent six months in a [[Germany|German]] [[prisoner of war]] camp. After demobilisation, he continued his studies at [[Columbia University]]. In 1947, he joined ''The New York Times'' as an office boy in the [[personnel]] department, and soon moved to the movie section as a clerk to [[Bosley Crowther]], the film critic at the ''Times''.  He later advanced to a reporter who frequently interviewed film personalities and finally became a critic in the late 1950s. The byline on reviews during his early years was commonly indicated as "H.H.T." or "HHT".<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A02E4DA173AE23BBC4852DFB3668389649EDE H.H.T. "At Loew's Theatres" (''The New York Times'', May 10, 1952)]</ref> He also served as chairman of the [[New York Film Critics]].<ref>((cite news |last=Martin |first=Douglas |title=Howard Thompson, 82, Writer Of Mini-Reviews for The Times |date=March 13, 2002 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E1D71539F930A25750C0A9649C8B63 |work=[[The New York Times]]))</ref>

Thompson gained a reputation for his pithy comments about films for the television listings. ''[[The Village Voice]]'' called him "the [[Virgil]] of TV guides," and his capsule reviews were labeled "Tiny Thompsons".<ref>[http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/2006/07/the_best_writers_at_the_new_york_times.html Shafer, Jack. "The Best Writers at the New York Times" (''Slate'', July 25, 2006)]</ref> He retired from full-time work in 1988 but continued to write the "Critic's Choice" column and the movie listings.

Thompson suffered a stroke in 1996. He died of pneumonia at the age of 82 in the [[Florida]] city of [[Cape Canaveral, Florida|Cape Canaveral]] where he was living in retirement.<ref>((cite news |title=Henry Howard Thompson, Jr. Obituary |date=15 March 2002 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/15/classified/paid-notice-deaths-thompson-henry-howard-jr.html |work=[[The New York Times]]))</ref>

==Bibliography==
*((cite book |title=The New York Times Guide to Movies on TV |first=Howard |last=Thompson |year=1970 |publisher=[[Times Books]] |asin=B000BI2LYY))

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