Mike Hodges, Get Carter and Flash Gordon director, dies aged 90

Mike Hodges, Get Carter and Flash Gordon director, dies aged 90

British director was known for his often bleak and brutal gangster films, most famously his 1971 film Get Carter starring Michael Caine

Mike Hodges, film director.
Mike Hodges, film director, pictured in 2015. He has died aged 90. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

Mike Hodges, the British director known for films including Get Carter, Croupier, The Terminal Man and Flash Gordon, has died at the age of 90.

Mike Kaplan, a longtime friend and producer on Hodges’ final feature film I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, confirmed his death to the Guardian. Hodges died at his home in Dorset on Saturday. A cause of death was not given.

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