Born in Liverpool, Davies worked as a clerk in a shipping office and a bookkeeper in an accountancy firm for 10 years before enrolling at the Coventry Drama School in 1973.
British screenwriter and film director Terence Davies has died aged 77 following a short illness.
He established himself in the 1970s and 1980s with a trilogy of autobiographical films titled Children, Madonna And Child, and Death And Transformation.
Nine feature films would follow – and most recently, Doctor Who’s Peter Capaldi and the late actor Julian Sands starred in his Netflix drama Benediction, based on the life of English poet Siegfried Sassoon.
His manager, John Taylor, said Davies died peacefully at home in his sleep.
A statement added the Latin words Umbra Sumus from poet Horace, and an extract from British writer Christina Rossetti’s poem titled When I Am Dead, My Dearest – both of which had significance to Davies.
Born in Liverpool, Davies worked as a clerk in a shipping office and a bookkeeper in an accountancy firm for 10 years before enrolling at the Coventry Drama School in 1973.
In 1988, he won the Cannes International Critics Prize for Distant Voices, Still Lives – a film drawn from his own family memories of a working-class life in the 1940s and 1950s.
