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Mike Hodges (1932 – 2022) was a famous British screenwriter, film and television director, playwright and novelist. Qualified as a chartered accountant, he spent two years of military service in the Royal Navy. Read the full biography

Mike Hodges (1932 – 2022) was a famous British screenwriter, film and television director, playwright and novelist. Qualified as a chartered accountant, he spent two years of military service in the Royal Navy. Hodges got a job in British television as a teleprompter operator. The job allowed him to observe how studios worked and gave him time to start writing screenplays. One of these was Some Will Cry Murder, written for ABC's Armchair Theater series. Although it was never performed, it served to get him enough writing commissions to quit his job as a technician. He then quickly moved into producer/director status, with series such as Sunday Break for ABC Television, World in Action for Granada Television and the arts programs Tempo and New Tempo for Thames Television. He wrote, directed and produced two film thrillers, Suspect (1969) and Rumor (1970), also for Thames Television. These films formed the basis for the creation of Euston Films, the influential television production company which continued into the 1980s. These two films also led Hodges to write and direct Get Carter (1971), which has been hailed by critics as "one of the greatest British gangster films of all time".