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Nicolas Roeg, who directed Don’t Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth, has died aged 90.

Roeg began his career at Marylebone Studios and became a camera operator rising to director of photography for David Lean on Dr Zhivago, from which he was sacked. His work on The Masque of the Red Death and Fahrenheit 451 displayed his talents, and he co-directed Performance with Mick Jagger, before his first solo directorial outing, Walkabout in 1971. Two years later, he filmed Daphne du Maurier’s Don’t Look Now which was followed in 1976 by The Man Who Fell to Earth, starring David Bowie. His later work included the 1990 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches and Fay Weldon’s Puffball, which was his last movie in 2007.