Terence Davies
Birthday: Born in 1945-11-10 in Liverpool, England, UK
Deathday: 2023-10-07
Terence Davies (10 November 1945 — 7 October 2023) was an English writer-director and former novelist. As a filmmaker, Davies is noted for his recurring themes of emotional (and sometimes physical) endurance, the influence of memory on everyday life and the potentially crippling effects of dogmatic religiosity on the emotional life of individuals and societies. Stylistically, Davies' works are notable for their symmetrical compositions, "symphonic" structure and measured pace.
TV Credits
Survivors
Character: Harper
Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as "The Death" – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet....
Lillie
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The Rise and Fall of a Professional Beauty. It was the affair that shook Victorian society to its core. He was the Prince of Wales, the future monarch; she was a professional beauty, who became a royal bedmate. Follow the fascinating life of the Dean of Jersey's daughter from her modest childhood to her emergence as one of the most celebrated beauties of her time. Lillie's liaison with the heir to the throne marked only the beginning of a remarkable, scandalous and daring series of adventures in...
Anna Karenina
Character:
Anna Karenina was a 1977 BBC television adaptation of Tolstoy's novel....
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Character: Self
A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation....
Reel Britannia
Character: Self - Producer - Writer
Comedian Nick Helm narrates this bold new documentary series exploring the dramatic history of British cinema. Discover how cinema held a mirror up to society from 1960 through to the 00s....
Movie Credits
But Why?
Character: Narrator (voice)
An elegy to time and life, condensing Terence Davies' profoundly humane poetics into little more than one minute, enveloping the viewer in an atmosphere of light and (Davies’ own) words....
Of Time and the City
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
British director Terence Davies reflects on his birthplace of Liverpool - his memories of growing up there and how it has changed in the years since - in the process meditating on the internal struggles and conflicts that have wracked him throughout his life and the history of England during the second half of the 20th century....
Passing Time
Character: Narrator (voice)
For the unique 2x25 project, the Film Fest Gent asked 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made a short film. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture. "Passing Time" began with Uruguayan composer Florencia Di Concilio's music and was completed with Terence Davies' reading of his own poem about his late sister, delivered over a single serene shot of the countryside near his home in Essex....
The South Bank Show: Terence Davies
Character: Interviewee
Television documentary about British film director Terence Davies and his film "The Long Day Closes."...
Doris Day: Virgin Territory
Character: Self
Doris Day has often been dismissed as an actress and overlooked as a singer, despite career highs such as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk. Covering her early years as a band singer, and her troubled private life, this documentary re-evaluates one of the screen's most enduring legends....