Tony Scott - a career in pictures

The Hunger (1983): Scott's feature debut, which starred Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie as Miriam and John, two aging vampires who become tangled in a love triangle with a young doctor (played by Susan Sarandon) Photograph: MGM/Everett/Rex Features

Top Gun (1986): Scott's second film starred Kelly McGillis and Tom Cruise as navy pilots. The film made made $350m from a $15m budget, ignited the jet fuel of Scott and Cruise's careers and spawned the Hot Shots spoof franchise
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Beverly Hills Cop II (1987): Following the huge success of Top Gun, Scott was entrusted with the sequel to another blockbuster. Eddie Murphy returned as Axel Foley, a wise-cracking LA cop tasked with tackling a gun-running operation Photograph: PR

Scott (left) on the set of Days Of Thunder with Robert Towne, Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer and Tom Cruise in 1990. The film saw Cruise play a stock car racer out to win the Daytona 500 Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features

True Romance (1993): Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater starred as a film buff and a comic shop clerk who go on the run after killing a man in self-defence. The script was written by Quentin Tarantino Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature/Everett Collection / Rex Feature

Crimson Tide (1995): Scott's fourth collaboration with producer Jerry Bruckheimer saw Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman as officers on a nuclear sub, wrangling over whether or not to follow an order to launch a missile Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/BUENA VISTA

Enemy Of The State (1998): A loose re-working of Hitchcock's North-by-Northwest that saw Will Smith playing the ordinary Joe pursued by shady government agents Photograph: Moviestore Collection/Rex Features

Spy Game (2001): Robert Redford plays Nathan Muir, a former CIA agent called back into the fold to dispose of a rogue agent played by Brad Pitt Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Universal

Man On Fire (2004): Denzel Washington and Christopher Walken in Scott's 12th film, which saw Washington play a CIA man turned bodyguard to a nine-year-old girl (played by Dakota Fanning) Photograph: FOX 2000/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar

Tony Scott with John Travolta during the filming of The Taking of Pelham 123 in 2008. It was a remake of Joseph Sargant's 1974 thriller in which a gang of crooks hold the passengers of a New York subway train hostage Photograph: AJ Sokalner/Rex Features

Déjà Vu (2006): Scott dabbled with science fiction in this thriller, which saw Denzel Washington travel back in time in an attempt to avert a terrorist attack in New Orleans Photograph: Touchstone/Everett/Rex Features

Tony Scott arriving with his wife, Donna, and his twin sons, Frank and Max, to the premiere of Unstoppable in 2010 Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

Tony Scott with his brother, Ridley. 'I'm classical, he's more rock 'n' roll,' said Ridley of his younger sibling's movies Photograph: Todd Williamson/Getty Images For BAFTA Los Angeles