British screenwriter and film director Terence Davies dies after ‘short illness’

Terence Davies (Ian West/PA)

British screenwriter and film director Terence Davies has died aged 77 following a “short illness”, his manager has said.

Davies established himself on the cinematic map in the late 1970s and early 1980s with his trilogy of autobiographical films titled Children, Madonna And Child, Death And Transfiguration – and went on to make nine more feature films.