Terence Davies
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 78 |
| Date of birth | November 10,1945 |
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
| Born | Kensington |
| Liverpool | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Awards | Golden Leopard |
| European Film Award for Best Film | |
| European Film Award for Best Director | |
| London Film Critics' Circle Award for Film of the Year | |
| British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film | |
| New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Non-Fiction Film | |
| Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay | |
| Grand Prix | |
| USC Scripter Award | |
| London Film Critics' Circle Award for Director of the Year | |
| Official site | terencedavies.com |
| Education | National Film and Television School (NFTS) |
| Books | Doris Day: Virgin Territory |
| Hallelujah now | |
| Travels in Celluloid | |
| A modest pageant | |
| Decorative Art 1960 | |
| Nominations | BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film |
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| ID | 419188 |
Terence Davies Life story
Terence Davies is an English screenwriter, film director, and novelist. He is best known as the writer and director of autobiographical films, including Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Long Day Closes and the collage film, Of Time and the City, as well as literature adaptations, such as The House of Mirth.
Terence Davies: Screenwriter and film director dies aged 77
Screenwriter and director Terence Davies , known for Films including Distant Voices, Still Lives , has died at the Age Of 77.
He established himself with a trilogy of Films - Children , Madonna and Child, and Death and Transfiguration - in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Born and raised in Liverpool, his work often has an autobiographical element.
He died peacefully At Home after short illness, his manager confirmed in a statement.
His most recent work, Netflix drama Benediction, starring Slow Horses actor Jack Lowden and Doctor Who 's Peter Capaldi , explored The Life of war poet Siegfried Sassoon .
Davies worked as a clerk in a shipping office and a book-keeper in an accountancy firm for 10 Years before enrolling at drama school in Coventry in 1973.
He won the Cannes International Critics Prize for Distant Voices, Still Lives - a film based on his memories of life in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool.
His other Films include a 2000 adaptation of Edith Wharton 's The House of Mirth, in which Sex Education star Gillian Anderson played socialite Lily Bart , and a 2011 adaption of Terence Rattigan 's play The Deep Blue Sea, starring Rachel Weisz .
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