Director Roger Mitchell, director of the romantic movie 'Notting Hill', dies at 65
British film director Roger Mitchell passed away Wednesday at the age of 65, the family of this director, whose most prominent work was the movie "Notting Hill," announced Thursday.
"The family of director and author Roger Mitchell, father of Harry, Rosie, Maggie and Sparrow, announces with great sadness his passing on September 22, at the age of 65," the late's business manager said in a statement. No information was available about the cause of his death.
Roger Mitchell, whose father was a diplomat, was born on June 5, 1956 in South Africa, and moved during his childhood between Beirut, Damascus and Prague, and then returned to Britain.
After beginnings on stage and across the small screen, where he directed television series and films, Mitchell entered the cinema field in 1996 by adapting a movie from the play "My Night With Rig."
But it was the 1999 romantic comedy "Notting Hill" starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant that established its place in the seventh art.
This tape, written by Richard Curtis and which became one of the most famous films in this category, deals with the love story between a Hollywood star and a bookshop in London.
Also among his works is the 2002 film "Chinging Lens" starring Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson. and "My Kazen Rachel" in 2017, with Sam Claflin and Rachel Weisz.
In early September, he took over at the Telluride Film Festival to promote his new movie "The Duke", which is scheduled to be shown at the end of the year, and deals with the story of a taxi driver stealing a language board in London during the 1960s.
Mitchell was married to actress Kate Beverly, with whom he has two children, and then married actress Anna Maxwell Martin, with whom he also had two children before their separation.
