Acclaimed British director Howard Davies has died at age 71LONDON- Olivier Award-winning British theater director Howard Davies, who had hits in London and Broadway directing Kathleen Turner in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Lindsay Duncan in "Private Lives," and Kevin Spacey in both "A Moon for the Misbegotten" and "The Iceman Cometh," has died. His family said in a statement Wednesday that Davies died Tuesday following a short battle with cancer. A National Theatre statement called him "one of the very greatest" directors of his generation. National Theatre director Rufus Norris said Davies had achieved "almost legendary status" in show business, particularly for his work on American, Russian and Irish plays. "He was a wonderful director, a wholly admirable man and a good friend," said National Theatre director Richard Eyre.

Source: The China Post October 27, 2016 18:02 UTC