Terence Davies was born in Kensington, Liverpool, on 10 November 1945, as the youngest of ten children of working-class Catholic parents. Though he was raised Catholic by his deeply religious mother, at the age of … See more

While at Coventry, Davies wrote the screenplay for what became his first autobiographical short, Children (1976), filmed under the auspices of the BFI Production Board. After that introduction to filmmaking… See more

Davies lived in Mistley, Essex. In an interview in 2022, he said that he preferred to live alone and had been single for much of his life except for a heterosexual relationship in the late 1970s when "there was still thi… See more