6 Things You Need To Know About Derek Jarman

1. He was a beauty pageant winner - In 1975 Derek Jarman won the Alternative Miss World contest, dressed as Miss Crêpe Suzette.

2. You may be surprised by how many familiar faces pop up in his films - Dame Judi Dench, Tilda Swinton, Sean Bean, Jerome Flynn, Robbie Coltrane, Toyah Wilcox, Marianne Faithful, Christopher Biggens and Laurence Olivier to name just a few.

3. Derek Jarman was also pop video supremo - he directed videos for The Pet Shop Boys, The Sex Pistols, The Smiths and Marianne Faithful.

4. He worked on Ken Russell’s The Devils, a film that won Best Director-Foreign Film at the Venice Film Festival, despite it being banned in Italy.

Ken Russell on set for Dance of the Seven Veils in 1969

5. He often wished he'd had the courage to be a professional gardener.

6. He lived in a desert - Derek Jarman’s final home at Dungeness in Kent is classified as Britain’s only desert by the Met Office.