New photo Hollywood director Nicolas Roeg behind blockbusters The Man Who Fell to Earth

Nicolas Roeg, born in London, passed away last night, his family confirmed on Saturday

Acclaimed British director Nicolas Roeg has died aged 90.

Mr Roeg, who was born in London, passed away on Friday night, his family confirmed.

Tributes have now poured in for the director, who worked on films including The Man Who Fell to Earth, Walkabout, Don't Look Now, and The Witches.

His son, Nicolas Roeg Jr, told the BBC: 'He was a genuine dad. 

'He just had his 90th birthday in August.'

One fan said: 'I am heartbroken to read that the great Nicolas Roeg passed away last night.

'So many great films in his lineup that I find absolutely fascinating. 

'You're one of a kind, sir. May you rest easy.'

Another hailed the director a 'true cinematic master,' the Mirror reported.  

Mr Roeg was born in St John's Hospital, London in August 1928.

He did National Service after the Second World War before getting a job making cups of tea and operating the clapper board at Marylebone Studios in 1947.

Mr Roeg worked his way up to camera operator on films such as The Trials Of Oscar Wilde and The Sundowners in 1960, and worked as a cinematographer on Lawrence of Arabia.

It was through his work as a cinematographer that he managed to gather critical attention, including on Francois Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 in 1965.

Mr Roeg then moved into direction in 1968, working with the writer Donald Cammell on Performance, which saw Mick Jagger play an eccentric and reclusive pop star who gives refuge to gangster-on-the-run James Fox.

Tributes have now poured in for the director (pictured on the set of Cold Heaven in 1992), who worked on films including The Man Who Fell to Earth, Walkabout, Don't Look Now, and The Witches

The film was delayed for two years, but was eventually released in 1970, by which time Mr Roeg was working on his first solo direction - Walkabout.

His biggest success came with Don't Look Now in 1973, which achieved notoriety with a controversial sex scene between stars Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland.

Its intimacy not only caused problems with censors, but sparked rumours Sutherland and Christie had actually been having sex.

But the supernatural tale based on a Daphne du Maurier short story is now widely recognised as a key work of horror cinema, with film director Danny Boyle citing Roeg as a key influence to his own work.

Mr Roeg also directed the 1990 film The Witches, which starred Jasen Fisher and Anjelica Huston

The late David Bowie starred in Roeg's 1976 cult classic The Man Who Fell To Earth as an alien who crashes on Earth seeking a way to save his home planet from extinction.

It was Bowie's first major film role and is one of Roeg's most celebrated works.

His 1980 psychological thriller Bad Timing - starring Art Garfunkel, Harvey Keitel and Roeg's second wife Theresa Russell - caused considerable controversy, with an executive of its own British distributor The Rank Organisation famously branding it 'a sick film made by sick people for sick people.'

Mr Roeg directed the 1990 screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches, working with Muppet-maestro Jim Henson.

He also worked on Doctor Zhivago in the mid 1960s alongside David Lean, but was fired and didn't receive a credit

The director's last feature film was Puffball in 2007, a supernatural drama starring Kelly Reilly and Miranda Richardson.

Mr Roeg also directed a number of TV series in the late 1980s and early 90s, including a televised adaption of Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness in 1994.

In 1999, the British Film Institute acknowledged Roeg's importance in the industry by naming Don't Look Now and Performance as the 8th and 48th greatest British films of all time in its Top 100 poll.

Mr Roeg was awarded with a British Film Institute Fellowship in 1994 and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2011.

He has four children, Waldo, Nico, Sholto and Luc, with actress Susan Stephen, whom he divorced in 1977.

He also has two children with his second wife, American actress Theresa Russell.

The director married Harriet Harper in 2005.

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