Terence Davies, award-winning filmmaker, dies at 77

The revered director and lyrical chronicler of working-class life in Distant Voices, Still Lives, died peacefully at home after a short illness

Peter Bradshaw appreciation

A life in pictures

Terence Davies, the film-maker regularly hailed by critics as among Britain's greatest, has died aged 77.

The Liverpool-born director, perhaps best known for his semi-autobiographical study of working-class family life Distant Voices, Still Lives, starring Pete Postlethwaite, was working on a new project at the time of his illness and only two years ago released Benediction, starring Jack Lowden in the role of the war poet Siegfried Sassoon.