- Was once an accountant.
- Listed Great Expectations (1946), The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Night of the Hunter (1955), The Searchers (1956), Singin' in the Rain (1951), Victim (1961), and Young at Heart (1954) as the 10 Greatest Films of All Time in the 2012 Sight & Sound Directors' Poll.
- He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture.
- Full retrospective at the 8th New Horizons Film Festival (2008).
- 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 this attitude of: 'Well, find the right person and you'll be happy'"; he was subsequently uninterested in relationships with men, saying "I did go on to the gay scene for a couple of months and I thought, it's just not for me".
- After he left school, at 16, Davies worked for ten years as a shipping office clerk and as an unqualified accountant before leaving Liverpool to attend Coventry Drama School. While he was there he wrote the screenplay for what became his first autobiographical short, Children (1976), filmed under the auspices of the BFI Production Board.
- Davies produced two works for radio, A Walk to the Paradise Garden, an original radio play broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2001, and a two-part adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2007.
- Davies was widely hailed by critics as one of the greatest British directors of his generation.
- He was a British screenwriter, film director, and novelist.
- Davies, who was gay, frequently explored gay themes in his films.
- His last film, Benediction (2021), tells the story of the British war poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon.
- His feature film, The Deep Blue Sea, based on the play by Terence Rattigan, was commissioned by the Rattigan Trust. The film was met with widespread acclaim, and Rachel Weisz won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and topped the Village Voice Film Critics' Poll for best lead female performance.
- His movie "Distant Voices, Still Lives" won the Grand Prix /Grote Prijs of the Belgian Film Critics Association (Unie van de filmkritiek).
- After filming the short movie 'Children' (1976), Davies attended the National Film School, completing Madonna and Child (1980), a continuation of the story of his alter ego, Robert Tucker, covering his years as a clerk in Liverpool. He completed the trilogy with Death and Transfiguration (1983), in which he speculates about the circumstances of his death. Those works went on to be screened together at film festivals throughout Europe and North America as The Terence Davies Trilogy, winning numerous awards.
- Though he was raised Catholic by his deeply religious mother, at the age of 22 he rejected religion and considered himself an atheist.
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