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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

Terence Davies, award-winning film-maker, dies at 77

Terence Davies, photographed at his Essex cottage, in 2022
Terence Davies, photographed at his Essex cottage, in 2022 Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

Terence Davies, the film-maker regularly hailed by critics as among Britain’s greatest, has died aged 77.

The Liverpool-born director, perhaps best known for his semi-autobiographical study of working-class family life Distant Voices, Still Lives, starring Pete Postlethwaite, was working on a new project at the time of his illness and only two years ago released Benediction, starring Jack Lowden in the role of the war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

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