British director Mike Hodges, best known for directing 'Get Carter,' 'Flash Gordon,' 'Croupier' and more, has died.
Hodges' longtime friend, Mike Kaplan, confirmed his death to ET calling the late director"a great friend and a great filmmaker."
"For a part of his career, he was under-appreciated, and he is not anymore," the film producer shared. " was a huge success all over the world. He had a great sense of humor. All of his movies were entrenched with humor and personality." Born in Bristol, England in 1932, Hodges first became an accountant before doing his required military service by serving on a British minesweeper. He began his career in show business as a teleprompter operator for British television., Hodges rose quickly to become a producer and director, entering the international film scene with 1971's , a British gangster movie starring Michael Caine. The film has often been called the English equivalent of .
The latter would be Hodges' last feature film, but not his final time behind the camera. Hodges went on to make the video documentary, which addressed popularity of serial killer movies over the last several decades.King Trashin 2010. He is survived by his wife, Carol Laws, his sons Ben and Jake Hodges, and five grandchildren, Marlon, Honey, Orson, Michael and Gabriel.
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