
Ken Russell
Born July 3, 1927 · Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011) was an English film director. He is known for his pioneering work in television and film, and for his controversial style. He has been criticized as being over-obsessed with sexuality and the church. His subject matter is often about famous composers, or based on other works of art which he adapts loosely. Russell began directing for the BBC, where he did creative adaptations of composers' lives which were unusual for the time. He also directed many feature films independently and for studios. He is best known for his Oscar-winning romantic drama Women in Love (1969), the notoriously controversial The Devils (1971), the rock musical Tommy (1975), and the science fiction film Altered States (1980). One noted admirer, British film critic Mark Kermode, attempting to sum up the director's achievement, called Russell; "somebody who proved that British cinema didn't have to be about kitchen-sink realism – it could be every bit as flamboyant as Fellini. He now makes very strange experimental films like Lion's Mouth and Revenge of the Elephant Man, and they are as edgy and out there as the work he made in the 1970s."
Notable Appearances
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Whore

Valentino

Gothic

Celebrity Naked Ambition

Trapped Ashes

Salome's Last Dance

Mr. Nice

Brothers of the Head

The Who: The Kids Are Alright

100 Greatest Sexy Moments

Colour Me Kubrick

Twiggy

Savage Messiah

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

Tales of Erotica

The Who: One Band's Explosive Story

Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World

Elgar: Fantasy on a Composer on a Bicycle

The Fall of the Louse of Usher

The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch

A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema

Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil

Ken Russell's ABC of British Music

The Real Oliver Reed

The Secret Life of Arnold Bax

A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible

Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue

Director of Devils

A Kitten for Hitler

Song of Summer

Alice in Russialand

10 Best Elgar

Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait

Walk With The Damned

Don’t Shoot the Composer

The Real Blue Nuns

In Search of the English Folk Song

Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell










