British filmmaker also directed David Bowie in "The Man Who Fell to Earth" and Mick Jagger in "Performance"
LONDON – Nicolas Roeg, the prominent British film director known for making provocative films and working with rock stars Mick Jagger and David Bowie over a six-decade career, has died. He was 90.
The 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. « He just had his 90th birthday in August. »
He didn’t provide details about his father’s death during a brief telephone call.
Roeg worked with Jagger in « Performance » and Bowie in « The Man Who Fell to Earth. » Bowie played an alien who crashes on Earth looking for a way to save his own planet.
Roeg’s « Don’t Look Now » in 1973 is regarded as one of his most outstanding successes. It is also remembered for the realistic sex scene between stars Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland.
