Terence Davies, a British screenwriter and director known for his work in the films Distant Voices, Still Lives, has passed away at the age of 77. His work frequently featured an autobiographical element and included a trilogy of movies, Children, Madonna and Child, and Death and Transfiguration, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Born and raised in Liverpool, Davies established himself as a respected filmmaker.
Davies died peacefully at home after a short illness, his manager confirmed in a statement. In his most recent work, Netflix drama Benediction, starring Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi, Davies explored the life of war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Actress Agyness Deyn was featured in his 2015 adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song. Cynthia Nixon, who played poet Emily Dickinson, starred in his 2016 release A Quiet Passion as well as directed.
Before enrolling at drama school in Coventry in 1973, Davies worked as a clerk in a shipping office and a book-keeper in an accountancy firm for ten years. In addition to the films mentioned above, his other credits include a 2000 adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and a 2011 adaption of Terence Rattigan’s play The Deep Blue Sea, starring Rachel Weisz.
Davies was rewarded for his excellent contributions to films by winning the Cannes International Critics Prize for Distant Voices, Still Lives in which he shared his memories of life in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool. He will be remembered as an influential artistic mind in the UK film industry and will be missed by many
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