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  2. Terence Davies (10 November 1945 – 7 October 2023) was a British screenwriter, film director, and novelist.

  3. Oct 9, 2023 · Mr. Davies, who was gay and never married, leaves no known survivors and had lived alone since 1980. He had tried the gay dating scene, he said, and dismissed it for, among other reasons, what he...

  4. Oct 7, 2023 · Terence Davies obituary: farewell to a British master of poetic cinema. The director of Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, Davies was one of the great British filmmakers, known for his poignant dramas infused with memory and melodies.

  5. Oct 7, 2023 · Davies, known for films such as Benediction and A Quiet Passion, died after a short illness, his manager confirms.

  6. Oct 8, 2023 · His career started at Coventry Drama School, where he made a short film titled “Children” before moving on to the National Film School. From the beginning, Davies was using film to express his own feelings, examining childhood and the Catholic guilt over his homosexuality in the short film.

  7. Oct 8, 2023 · Starred Rachel Weisz as a woman torn between her dependable husband and feckless lover. Model and actress Agyness Deyn starred in “Sunset Song,” a hymn to rural Scotland released in 2015, and Davies depicted the life of poet Emily Dickinson — played by Cynthia Nixon — in the 2016 film “A Quiet Passion.”

  8. Oct 8, 2023 · Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz played Hester Collyer in a 2011 adaption of 1952 play The Deep Blue Sea, about a forbidden love and the fear of loneliness. And in 2016, Sex And The City star Cynthia Nixon played 19th century poet Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion, written and directed by Davies.

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