Terence Davies

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

He was born into an English working-class family in Liverpool, England. After years of low-level jobs he began studies at Coventry School of Drama in 1971 and later at the National Film School. He wrote a screenplay for his first short film, Children. This would be the first of three short movies that are known as The Terence Davies Trilogy.

He is best known as the writer and director of movies based on his own life, including Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), The Long Day Closes (1992) and Of Time and the City (2008). He has made movies based on novels, such as The House of Mirth (2000) and The Neon Bible (1995). His movies A Quiet Passion (2016) and Benediction (2021) are based on the lives of poets Emily Dickinson and Siegfried Sassoon.
Davies lived in Mistley, Essex. In a 2022 interview, he said that he preferred to live alone and was single for much of his life, except for a heterosexual relationship in the late 1970s, "[when] there was still this attitude of: 'Well, find the right person and you'll be happy'"; he was subsequently uninterested in relationships with men, saying "I did go on to the gay scene for a couple of months and I thought, it's just not for me". 

Davies died at his home on 7 October 2023, at the age of 77, following a short illness.
Movies
 Year Title Notes 1976  Children  short 1980  Madonna and Child  short 1983  Death and Transfiguration  short 1988  Distant Voices, Still Lives  1992  The Long Day Closes  1995  The Neon Bible  2000  The House of Mirth  2008  Of Time and the City  documentary 2011  The Deep Blue Sea  2015  Sunset Song  2016   A Quiet Passion  2021  Benediction 

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Category:English LGBT writers
Category:Writers from Liverpool