Peter Medak, the British-Hungarian director of The Changeling, The Krays and Let Him Have It, has died aged 88. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Medak’s family announced he died in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Medak enjoyed a long and varied career across film and TV, which included spirit-of-the-times classics A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and The Ruling Class (both from 1972), cult horror The Changeling with George C Scott, and The Krays and Let Him Have It, period true crime films made in the early 1990s. He also directed numerous episodes of high-profile TV drama, including the 80s revival of The Twilight Zone, Homicide: Life on the Street, and Hannibal.

Gary Kemp, left with Martin Kemp, right, and Billie Whitelaw in Medak’s biopic of the Kray twins Photograph: Warner Bros./Sportsphoto/Allstar

Born in Hungary in 1937, Medak escaped the country during the Hungarian uprising and came to London, where his aunt Lotte Medák was an internationally renowned opera singer.…