 Nino Frank

Nino Frank (born 27 June 1904 in Barletta, Italy − Paris, 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," although research indicates that the term was used in French film reviews and newspaper articles in 1938 and 1939.