London, UK: British screenwriter, film director, and novelist Terence Davies has died at 77. The filmmaker is known for his works, including Distant Voices, Still Lives.
The director died peacefully at home after a short illness, his manager confirmed in a statement. Benediction, now streaming on Netflix, is his recent work.
Davies is most famous for creating autobiographical movies like Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Long Day Closes, and the collage-style film Of Time and the City. Additionally, he’s known for adapting literature into films, like The House of Mirth (2000).
Davies was born in Kensington, Liverpool, on November 10, 1945. At the age of 22, he rejected his family religion and considered himself an atheist. He entered boarding school at the age of 11, and he remembered them as the four happiest years of his life.
In his early career, Davies worked as a clerk in a shipping office and a bookkeeper in an accounting company for 10 years. Then he enrolled at drama school in Coventry in 1973.
The director has won the Cannes International Critics Prize for Distant Voices, Still Lives. The film was released in 1998 and was written and directed by Davies.
Davies lived in Mistley, Essex, for a long time. He liked living alone and remained single throughout most of his adult years. In a 2022 interview, he mentioned that his last relationship with a woman was in the late 1970s, but it didn’t work out, and he no longer pursued relationships with men after a brief period of trying out the “gay scene”, finding it wasn’t the right fit for him.
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