Mike Hodges, the British director of Get Carter, The Flash Gordon and The Dealer, died Saturday in Dorset, England. He was 90 years old.
Mike Kaplan, longtime friend of Hodges and producer of “I’ll Sleep After I’m Dead,” announced Tuesday, Diversity reported. The cause of death has not been disclosed.
Hodges had a protracted profession as the creator of British gangster crime dramas, including 1971’s Get Carter; “Mulch” a yr later; and “The Dealer” in 1998; and “I’ll Sleep After I Die” in 2003.
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Hodges’ tackle 1980’s “Flash Gordon” has change into iconic, as has 1985’s parody genre “Curtain from Outer Space”.
“Mike Hodges, director of FLASH GORDON, has passed away. I finally saw this movie during the pandemic and it made me so joyful. I’ve watched it several times since then. I don’t love the rest. Rest in peace, sir,” author of The Secret Life of Pets. Brian Lynch tweeted on Tuesday.
Born in Bristol on 29 July 1932, Hodges was an accountant who served for 2 years on a Royal Navy minesweeper around fishing ports in the north of England.
There, as he explained in a letter to the Guardianwhere he “witnessed terrible poverty and deprivation that I didn’t find out about before,” which influenced “Get Carter,” starring Michael Caine.
“I went into the Navy as a newly qualified chartered accountant and a smug young Tory and an offended, radical young man got here out,” he wrote.
Hodges also published the novel Watching the Wheels Come Off in 2010.
He’s survived by his wife, Carol Laws; his sons, Ben and Jake Hodges; and five grandchildren, Marlon, Honey, Orson, Michael and Gabriel.
The Post contacted a representative for Hodges for comment.