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Death Wish director dies at 77: BBC

Monday, Jan 21, 2013, 21:52 IST | Place: London | Agency: Reuters

Last summer Winner, best known in Britain in recent years for his newspaper columns, revealed that liver specialists had given him 18 months to live.

Film director Michael Winner at a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of the killing of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in London on April 17, 2009.
Film director Michael Winner at a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of the killing of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in London on April 17, 2009. - Getty Images

British filmmaker Michael Winner, who directed Charles Bronson in the 1974 thriller Death Wish, has died aged 77, the BBC reported.

Last summer Winner, best known in Britain in recent years for his newspaper columns, revealed that liver specialists had given him 18 months to live. His personal assistant said she had no comment to make on the report.

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White)