James Foley, director of Fifty Shades sequels and Glengarry Glen Ross, dies aged 71

Director James Foley, whose credits included Glengarry Glen Ross and the Fifty Shades sequels, has died aged 71.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, his decease was confirmed by his typical who said helium died “peacefully successful his slumber earlier this week pursuing a years-long conflict with encephalon cancer”.

His vocation was marked by versatility, from euphony videos with Madonna to commercialized multiplex thrillers to talky TV dramas to erotic romances.

He made his directorial debut with the romanticist play Reckless successful 1984, which starred Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah. It was an acrimonious commencement to his big-screen vocation with the movie receiving antagonistic reviews and angering screenwriter Chris Columbus, who disowned it.

He received amended notices for his follow-up, transgression play At Close Range, which starred Sean Penn and Christopher Walken. In the aforesaid year, helium besides started moving with Madonna, who was joined to Penn astatine the time. Foley was the champion antheral astatine their wedding.

He directed the videos for Live to Tell, Papa Don’t Preach and True Blue arsenic good arsenic the 1987 screwball drama Who’s That Girl, which starred the vocalist alongside Griffin Dunne.

In the 1990s, helium directed an occurrence of Twin Peaks earlier films specified arsenic David Mamet adaptation Glengarry Glen Ross, John Grisham play The Chamber and Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon thriller Fear.

The 2000s saw him nonstop Confidence with Dustin Hoffman and Perfect Stranger with Halle Berry earlier the 2010s had him directing episodes of House of Cards and Billions, arsenic good arsenic taking connected the 2 Fifty Shades of Grey sequels.

“Seriously, if you formed the close friggin’ radical and they’re bully actors, it’s astonishing however small you person to bash but enactment retired of the way,” Foley said modestly of his vocation successful a 2003 interview.