British screenwriter and movie director Terence Davies has died aged 77 following a brief sickness.
He established himself on the cinematic map within the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties with a trilogy of autobiographical movies titled Children, Madonna And Child, and Death And Transformation.
Nine function movies would observe – and most just lately, Doctor Who’s Peter Capaldi and the late actor Julian Sands starred in his Netflix drama Benediction, primarily based on the lifetime of English poet Siegfried Bassoon.
His supervisor John Taylor mentioned Davies died peacefully at residence in his sleep.
An announcement added the Latin phrases Umbra Sumus from poet Horace, and an extract from British author Christina Rossetti’s poem titled When I Am Dead, My Dearest – each of which had significance to Davies.
Born in Liverpool, Davies labored as a clerk in a delivery workplace and a bookkeeper in an accountancy agency for 10 years earlier than enrolling on the Coventry Drama School in 1973.
In 1988, he gained the Cannes International Critics Prize for Distant Voices, Still Lives – a movie drawn from his family reminiscences of a working-class life within the Nineteen Forties and Fifties.
Over the years, a number of well-known faces have appeared in Davies’ works.
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Sex Education star Gillian Anderson performed socialite Lily Bart in his 2000 adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The House Of Mirth.
Oscar winner Rachel Weisz performed Hester Collyer in a 2011 adaption of 1952 play The Deep Blue Sea, a few forbidden love and the concern of loneliness.
And in 2016, Sex And The City star Cynthia Nixon performed nineteenth century poet Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion, written and directed by Davies.
Source: information.sky.com”