RICHARD CROUSE: long bio

Richard Crouse figures he’s the luckiest person he knows. “Ever since childhood I’ve had a great interest in pop culture -- music and movies chief among my obsessions -- and a desire to write and perform on television.” Richard is among those lucky few that can say that he is living out his childhood dream.

His first job, at 16, was a nighttime DJ at CKBW radio in his native Nova Scotia, the youngest DJ in the Maritimes. “My position was ‘jr. announcer’, a job that actor Donald Sutherland had held at the same radio station many years before.”

In 1980 Richard moved to Toronto looked for work as a writer. “I wrote for free for anybody who would publish me, but eventually I worked my way up to writing for magazines and newspapers.” Aside form his syndicated weekly column in the Metro newspaper Richard’s work has been featured in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, as well as many literary and music magazines. He wrote his first book when he was in his teens; a history of his favorite band The Rolling Stones. “I still have a copy, written on an old typewriter, with pictures clipped from magazines pasted in as illustrations.”

Since then Richard has written six more books, all reviewed positively by the critics, including Rock & Roll Toronto and Who Wrote the Book of Love (Doubleday). Richard has also written a Celine Dion biography (Ballantine, New York), followed by Big Bang, Baby (a rock trivia encyclopedia for Dundurn) and the best-selling The 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, which was released by ECW Press in September 2003. Dundurn Press released Reel Winners in 2005. Richard’s latest book is Son of the 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen.

Richard now finds himself in front of the camera, currently as the host of Richard Crouse’s Movie Show seen nationally on the Independent Film Channel and for ten years as co-host of the Galaxi and Impression Award winning television show Reel to Real (1998 - 2008), Canada’s longest running movie review program. Richard joined the show at the end of its 6th season and made regular trips to the Cannes Film Festival, provided in-depth coverage of the Toronto Film Festival and did more than 4000 interviews in his ten year stint at the show. Since 2005 Richard has been the regular film critic for Canada’s number one morning show, Canada AM.

Although Richard has been living out his childhood dream, he’s not content to idly sit back and enjoy the ride. Always looking forward to the next challenge, Richard has the drive to accomplish whatever he sets out to do. When asked what he’d like to find at the end of the rainbow, Richard simply replies with a smile, “Another rainbow.” Based on his track record, he’ll have no trouble finding it.

RICHARD CROUSE: short bio

Richard Crouse is the regular film critic for CTV's Canada AM and the 24 hour news source CTV’s News Channel. He was the host of Reel to Real, Canada’s longest running television show about movies, from 1998 to 2008 and is a frequent guest on many national Canadian radio and television shows. His syndicated Saturday afternoon radio show, At the Movies, originates on News Talk 1010 in Toronto. He is also the author of six books on pop culture history including Who Wrote the Book of Love, the best-selling The 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen and its sequel The Son of the 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen and writes a weekly column for Metro newspaper.

RICHARD CROUSE: medium bio

Richard Crouse is the regular film critic for CTV's Canada AM and the 24 hour news source CTV’s News Channel. He was the host of Reel to Real, Canada’s longest running television show about movies, from 1998 to 2008, the host of Richard Crouse's Movie Show on the Independent Film Channel, a regular pundit for Star TV's Best! Movies! Ever! and the host of The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen on Rogers Television. He is also a frequent guest on many national Canadian radio and television shows. His syndicated Saturday afternoon radio show, At the Movies, featuring film reviews, interviews and news, originates on News Talk 1010 in Toronto. He is also the author of six books on pop culture history including Who Wrote the Book of Love, the best-selling The 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen and its sequel The Son of the 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen; he writes a weekly column for Metro newspaper and his work has also been featured in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, as well as many literary and music magazines.