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Terence Davies: Screenwriter and film director dies aged 77
Screenwriter and director Terence Davies , known for Films including Distant Voices, Still Lives , has died at the Age Of 77.
He established himself with a trilogy of Films - Children , Madonna and Child, and Death and Transfiguration - in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Born and raised in Liverpool, his work often has an autobiographical element.
He died peacefully At Home after short illness, his manager confirmed in a statement.
His most recent work, Netflix drama Benediction, starring Slow Horses actor Jack Lowden and Doctor Who 's Peter Capaldi , explored The Life of war poet Siegfried Sassoon .
Davies worked as a clerk in a shipping office and a book-keeper in an accountancy firm for 10 Years before enrolling at drama school in Coventry in 1973.
He won the Cannes International Critics Prize for Distant Voices, Still Lives - a film based on his memories of life in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool.
His other Films include a 2000 adaptation of Edith Wharton 's The House of Mirth, in which Sex Education star Gillian Anderson played socialite Lily Bart , and a 2011 adaption of Terence Rattigan 's play The Deep Blue Sea, starring Rachel Weisz .
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