British film producer Simon Channing Williams dies

LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) – Film producer Simon Channing Williams, the longtime bearing accomplice of Mike Leigh, has died of cancer. He was 63.

Williams died Saturday at his home in Cornwall, England, amidst by his family.

Channing Williams began his career at the BBC, area he formed with admiral Leigh, Stephen Frears, James MacTaggart, Mike Newell and Michael Apted, amid others.

He went on to aftermath 11 films with Leigh, founding Thin Man Films in 1988. Titles included "Topsy-Turvy," an Oscar winner for best architecture and apparel design, Palme d'Or winner "Secrets and Lies" and the Oscar-nominated "Vera Drake."

Leigh's 2008 "Happy-Go-Lucky" apparent the duo's final production.

Channing Williams additionally produced films alfresco his accord with Leigh, amid them Clive Rees' "When the Whales Came" and Tim Sullivan's "Jack & Sarah."

In 2000, he formed independent assembly company Potboiler Prods. with Gail Egan. Together they produced seven feature films, including Douglas McGrath's "Nicholas Nickleby" and Fernando Meirelles' "The Constant Gardener."

Potboiler acquired the rights to John le Carre's two best contempo novels, "The Mission Song" and "A Best Wanted Man." Egan apprenticed to abide Potboiler films and to aftermath movies based on le Carre's novels.

Channing Williams is survived by his wife, Annie, bristles accouchement and bristles grandchildren.

(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)