Victor Lewis Smith was a British film, television and radio producer, television and restaurant critic, satirist and newspaper columnist.
Smith was the executive producer of the ITV1 Annual National Food & Drink Awards. He was an alumnus of the University of York and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Westminster in November 2008.
On January 1, 2021, the Sky Documentaries Channel aired “Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie”, presented by David Letterman.
Smith’s books included Buy-Gones and Inside the Magic Rectangle, a collection of his early Evening Standard TV reviews, and TV Reviews, a collection of his Evening Standard TV reviews since 2000.
He died on December 10, 2022, at the age of 65.