The screenwriter and director was best known for his autobiographical films Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes.
British screenwriter and film director Terence Davies died on Saturday at the age of 77.
According to the critically acclaimed filmmaker’s official Instagram account, he died peacefully at home after a short illness.
Davies was best known for autobiographical films such as Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes as well as his adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, starring Gillian Anderson.
Born in 1945, Davies grew up as the youngest of 10 children in a working class Catholic family in Liverpool, England.
