Manchester born Francis Megahy, a writer, director and documentarian has died in his Los Angeles home after a long battle with cancer, his cousin, Adrian Cohen, told The Hollywood Reporter this week.
Megahy briefly managed Rod and in 1964 he followed the young singer around swinging London for the short film Rod the Mod, which captured the birth of Britpop. At a retrospective BFI screening two years ago that many SMILER members were invited to, Rod credited Megahy with igniting a fabled career that he might not have had otherwise.
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