London, Mike Hodges, the director of films including Flash Gordon and Get Garter, has died aged 90.

Hodges’ film credits include Croupier, The Terminal Man and 2003’s I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, his final feature film.

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.

His first job in the entertainment industry was working as a teleprompter operator for TV, which led him to producing and directing news and documentary series, BBC news reported.

His first major feature film, released in cinemas in 1971, was an adaptation of Ted Lewis’s novel Get Carter.

The movie starred Sir Michael Caine as a London gangster who seeks his own form of justice after his brother is killed in Newcastle.

Get Carter was a huge success, and prompted Hodges and Caine to reunite the following year for another film, Pulp.

One of the biggest films of his career, the space opera Flash Gordon, followed in 1980.

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 Brian Blessed and Timothy Dalton.

His other credits include the 1987 Mickey Rourke thriller A Prayer for the Dying and 1989’s Black Rainbow, starring Rosanna Arquette.

Source: Oman News Agency