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Terence Davies

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British film director and screenwriter (1945-2023)

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Terence Davies was an English filmmaker. He is best known as the writer and director of autobiographical films, including Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), The Long Day Closes (1992) and the collage film Of Time and the City (2008), as well as the literary adaptations The Neon Bible (1995), The House of Mirth...

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Filmography 22

The Deep Blue Sea2011 · ★ 5.9
A Quiet Passion2016 · ★ 6.0
Benediction2021 · ★ 6.2
The House of Mirth2000 · ★ 6.3
The Long Day Closes1992 · ★ 7.2
Distant Voices, Still Lives1988 · ★ 6.9
Sunset Song2015 · ★ 6.2
Of Time and the City2008
Children1976
The Neon Bible1995
Madonna and Child1980
Death and Transfiguration1983
The Terence Davies Trilogy1983
Passing Time2023
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson2017
Home! Home!2024
Doris Day: Virgin Territory2007
Boogie1980
But Why?2021
The Post Office Girl
Investigating The Ladykillers2020
The Gates of Heaven2025

46 credits on file

Television 6

Film '721971
The Story of Film: An Odyssey2011
Survivors1975
Legends2006
Anna Karenina1977
Reel Britannia2022

Awards 2

2021Best Screenplay Award (San Sebastián Film Festival)
2007British Film Institute Fellowship

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Terence Davies was an English filmmaker. He is best known as the writer and director of autobiographical films, including Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), The Long Day Closes (1992) and the collage film Of Time and the City (2008), as well as the literary adaptations The Neon Bible (1995), The House of Mirth (2000), The Deep Blue Sea (2011) and Sunset Song (2015). His final two feature films were centered on the lives of influential literary figures, Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016) and Siegfried Sassoon in Benediction (2021). Davies was considered by numerous critics as one of the great British directors of his period.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1945 to 2023 · aged 77
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19 languages

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