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Biography and cause of death of Malcolm Le Grice

Malcolm Le Grice (15 May 1940 – December 2024) was a British artist known for his avant-garde film work.

The British Film Institute claimed that he was “probably the most influential modernist filmmaker in British cinema”.

Malcolm Le Grice Biography

Le Grice was born in Plymouth, Devon, on 15 May 1940.

He studied painting at the Arts University Plymouth. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. He founded the London Film-Makers’ Co-op workshop in the late 1960s, at the same time introducing film to fine art students at Saint Martin’s School of Art and the Goldsmiths, University of London.

He balanced his practice as a filmmaking artist with campaigning for the art form in print, in higher education, and in committees at the British Film Institute and the Arts Council.

Le Grice started his career as a painter but began to make film and computer works in the mid 1960s, becomi