James Foley, who directed the two Fifty Shades of Grey sequels and several others films including Glengarry Glen Ross and At Close Range, along with Netflix’s House of Cards and multiple Madonna movies and music videos, has died. He was 71.

His family told Deadline through a rep that Foley died earlier this week after a yearlong battle with brain cancer.

Born on December 28, 1953, in Brooklyn, Foley made his directing debut with Reckless, the 1984 romantic dramedy starring Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah and penned by first-time feature scribe Chris Columbus. Foley’s next movie was At Close Range, the 1986 crime thriller toplined by Sean Penn and Christopher Walken, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and was nominated for its Golden Bear prize.

The film featured “Live to Tell,” a chart-topping single by Penn’s then-wife Madonna, with whom Foley had worked on the “Dress You Up” video and concert film Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour. He directed and produced the “Live to Tell” video and later would helm clips for her smash songs “Papa Don’t Preach” and “True Blue.” Foley also directed the star in Who’s That Girl? and helmed the video for the title song, also a No. 1 single.

Foley directed a 1991 episode of David Lynch’s quirky Showtime series Twin Peaks before helming the feature adaptation of David Mamet’s desperate-salesmen play Glengarry Glen Ross the following year. The pic’s starry cast included Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey and Jonathan Pryce.

Foley continued to helm features into the 2010s, including After Dark, My Sweet (1990) — also his lone feature scripting credit — Two Bits (1995), Fear and John Grisham adaptation The Chamber (both 1996), Confidence (2003), Perfect Stranger (2007) and Red Zone (2014).

His biggest commercial successes came with Fifty Shades Darker (2017) and Fifty Shades Freed (2018), the sequels to the global hit Fifty Shades of Grey, based on the smash novel by E. L. James. Foley’s sequels combined to gross $714 million worldwide, though neither reached the box office heights of the 2015 original.

Along the way, Foley also directed for television, helming episodes of Billions, Hannibal and Wayward Pines. He also helmed a dozen episodes of Netflix’s breakout drama series House of Cards, starring Spacey and Robin Wright over its first three seasons.

He is survived by brother Kevin Foley, sisters Eileen and Jo Ann Foley and nephew Quinn Foley and their respective spouses. He was predeceased by another brother, Gerard Foley.