Marvin Kitman, TV Critic On-Air and in Print, Has Died

Columnist Marvin Kitman attends the Museum of Television & Radio Celebrates Its New Building to Open in the Fall on April 11, 1991 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

Marvin Kitman, who routinely savaged broadcast TV as a critic, died June 29 at age 93. He was suffering from cancer. 

Born in Pittsburgh in 1929, he grew up in Brooklyn. He spent time in the US. Army, and was a reporter at a newspaper at Fort Dix in New Jersey. He later wrote for The Saturday Evening Post.