The American director, famous for the thriller Like a rabid dog With Sean Penn and the drama Moment of happiness With Al Pacino, succumbed to brain cancer.
Director James Foley, known in particular for having signed Fifty darker shades et Fifty clearer shadesdied of brain cancer, his agent announced this Thursday, May 8. He was 71 years old.
According to his agent, James Foley died “peacefully in his sleep this week”, at his home in Los Angeles, after fighting brain cancer “for several years”.
Born in 1953, James Foley had started his cinema career in the 1980s. He had notably marked the spirits with the thriller Like a rabid dogcarried by Sean Penn and Christopher Walken.
-Madonna, who had signed the soundtrack of Like a rabid dogthen hired him to make several of his clips (True Blue, Papa Don’t Preach). They had collaborated one last time on comedy Who’s That Girlof which Madonna was the star.
Two films with Al Pacino
In the 1990s, James Foley joined Al Pacino for two projects. The first, which has become cult, is an adaptation of the play Glengarry Glen Rosswith the credits Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris and Kevin Spacey.
James Foley then found Al Pacino for the drama Moment of happinesson Italian immigrants in the United States. He then worked with stars like Gene Hackman, Mark Wahlberg or Halle Berry in thrillers with mixed success.
Before reconnecting with success in the 2010s with Fifty darker shades et Fifty clearer shadesthe consequences of Fifty shades of Grayhe had worked on television, notably signing 12 episodes of House of Cards.
