Flash Gordon and Get Carter director Mike Hodges dies aged 90
The director reportedly died at his home in Dorset on Saturday. No cause of death has yet been announced.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's World At One programme, Blessed said of Hodges: " is the only film, apart from Henry V with Kenneth Branagh, that I raced to the studio to start filming. Born in Bristol in 1932, Hodges worked as a chartered accountant and spent two years serving on a Royal Navy minesweeper around fishing ports in the north of England.
Get Carter was a huge success, and prompted Hodges and Caine to reunite the following year for another film, Pulp.The movie saw warring factions of the planet Mongo unite against the oppression of Ming the Merciless. It starred Sam J Jones and Melody Anderson alongside Blessed and Timothy Dalton.
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