Nino Frank

Nino Frank
Born(1904-06-27)27 June 1904
Barletta, Puglia, Kingdom of Italy
Died17 August 1989(1989-08-17) (aged 80)
Paris, France
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • poet
  • short story writer
  • translator
  • literary critic
  • essayist
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Nino Frank (27 June 1904 − 17 August 1988) was an Italian-born French film critic and writer who was most active in the 1930s and 1940s. Frank is best known for being the first film critic to use the term "film noir" to refer to 1940s US crime drama films such as The Maltese Falcon.

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