British film director Nicolas Roeg dies at age 90; known for provocative works.
Nicolas Roeg, a director of provocative and otherworldly films who gave Mick Jagger and David Bowie enduring screen roles, has died. He was 90.
The British director of « Don’t Look Now » and many other films died Friday night, his son, Nicolas Roeg Jr., told Britain’s Press Association.
« He was a genuine dad, » Roeg Jr. said Saturday. « He just had his 90th birthday in August. »
He didn’t provide details about his father’s death during a brief telephone call with the association.
During the 1970s, Roeg sent Jenny Agutter and his son Luc Roeg on the Australian Outback odyssey « Walkabout; » gave Jagger a big-screen role in the thriller « Performance, » which was co-directed with Donald Cammell; and plunged Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland into psychological horror in the Venice-set « Don’t Look Now. »
« Don’t Look Now » became famous for its realistic depiction of sex. Roeg said later that rumors the sex had been real were « very flattering » because that meant people felt the film was authentic.
