for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1984. Marquand subsequently directed the 1985 courtroom thriller Jagged Edge, starring Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close. Personal life and death In 1960, Marquand married screenwriter Josephine Elwyn-Jones, the daughter of Labour MP Elwyn Jones and author and illustrator Pearl Binder. They had two children, Hannah Rachel and James Elwyn, before they divorced in 1970. James Marquand is a film editor who has also worked as a director. In 1981, Marquand married fellow film director Carol Bell, with whom he had another two children, Sam Adair and Molly Joyce. Marquand was a fan of Liverpool Football Club. According to a 2014 Wales Online interview with his son James, Marquand wrote a screenplay for "a Welsh western" in the late 1970s at the South Wales branch of Pinewood Studios. The screenplay told the story of a young orphan girl in Victorian Mid Wales who enlists two local men to help her wreak revenge on those who killed her father; Marquand used to tell the story to his children when they were on holiday at the family's cottage near Tregaron. Marquand reportedly pitched it to Hollywood producers who expressed interest in making it into a film; however, Marquand declined the offer because the producers insisted the story be relocated to the Rocky Mountains in the United States. In the interview, James Marquand expressed interest in adapting his father's screenplay into a film. Marquand was driving his children home when he suffered a stroke brought on by an embolism. He reached the destination before collapsing and died in hospital in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on 4 September 1987 at the age of 49. His last film, Hearts of Fire, starring Bob Dylan, was released posthumously. Filmography Theatrical feature films Short films Television films Television series References External links 1937 births 1987 deaths Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Mass media people from Cardiff Welsh film directors Hugo Award winners People educated at Emanuel School Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) Science fiction film directors Return of the Jedi Aix-Marseille University alumni British documentary filmmakers Deaths from embolism Welsh television directors