Michael Tommy Hodges (29 July 1932 – 17 December 2022) was an English film and television director, screenwriter, playwright and novelist. After varied work on television, he made his feature film directing debut with the crime thriller Get Carter (1971), which was a critical and commercial success and was voted one of the BFI Top 100 British films. His subsequent works included the comic thriller Pulp (1972), the sci-fi horror film The Terminal Man (1974), the superhero film Flash Gordon (1980), and the neo-noir Croupier (1998). The British Film Institute described him as an "outsider auteur" and "a rule-breaking master given to deconstructing genre," while Andrew Sarris called him "one of the most under-appreciated and virtually unknown masters of the medium in the last 30 years." (Via Wikipedia)