James Foley, director of the ’50 saga Shades of Grey ‘and’ Glengarry Ross’ dies.
James Foley dies at 71director of films such as Glengarry Glen Ross (Success at any price) ,, Seduce a stranger or two of the three deliveries of the trilogy 50 gray shadows.
The director died at his house Los Angeles At the beginning of this week after a year he suffered a Cerebral canceras confirmed by his representative a Variety.
Foley, who in his almost four career decades has worked with the stars like Dustin Hoffman, Sean Penn, Madonna, Al Pacino, Halle Berry, Gene Hackman or Bruce WillisHe specialized in stories with dyes Noir‘Y Thriller tensos With an erotic touch.
Born in Brooklyn, New YorkHis first film was the romantic musical drama of 1984, Reckless rebelsWith Daryl Hannah and Aidan Quinn. Two years later he directed Face to face to faceA dark drama on a family of criminals with Sean Penn and Christopher Walken who included Madonna’s song Live it.
Madonna was married to Penn at that moment and Foley worked with her several times Direct video clip and his movie Who is that girl? (1987, a comedy that was an authentic flask and that the director called “a crucial vital experience” since he meant his first great failure.
Foley also directed a chapter of the first season of Twin peaksthe legendary series created by David Lynch And Mark Frost and in 1992 he previewed what would have been the most acclaimed title of all his filmography: Glengarry Glen Ross (Success at any price), A tense drama set in the business world he had in his cast with names such as El Pacino, and Harris, Jack Lemmon, Jonathan Pryce, Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin or Kevin Spacey. With this adaptation of David Mamet’s work, Pacino He won the Golden Globe And it reached the Oscar nomination for the best secondary actor.
Other Foley movies are the drama movie Two bits With Jerry Baron, Al Pacino and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, the Thriller Judicial Sealing chamber with Chris O’donnell, Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway, obsessive passion with Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon, TrustA robbery thriller in which he directed Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Andy García or Paul Giamatti and seducing a stranger Another thriller Managed in this case by Halle Berry and Bruce Willis.
Also Foley direct the two sequences of the erotic saga Fifty gray shadows (Fifty darker shadows and fifty shadows released) and Dozens of episodes From the Netflix series Card house. He also participated in other prominent titles of the small screen such as Hannibal, Ribelli pines or Billion.
