LONDON — British filmmaker Mike Hodges, who directed gangland thriller "Get Carter" and sci-fi cult classic "Flash Gordon," has died. He was 90.
Hodges died at his home in the county of Dorset in southwest England on Saturday, his friend and former producer Mike Kaplan told British media on Wednesday. No cause of death was given.
Born in the English port city of Bristol in 1932, Hodges trained as an accountant and did two years of compulsory military service aboard a Royal Navy minesweeper, visiting poor coastal communities around England.
