Ken Russell
Born July 03, 1927 (Age: 98)
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Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
Biography
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."
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."
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Filmography
Director of Devils
2012
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as Self
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Age: 84
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The Devils Original on-set footage
2012
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as
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Age: 84
Mr. Nice
2010
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as Russell Miegs
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Age: 83
The Aristofrogs
2010
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as
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Age: 83
10 Best Elgar
2007
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 79
No Image
Revenge of the Elephant Man
2004
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as
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Age: 77
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003
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as Self - Contributor
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Age: 76
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002
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as Self
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Age: 75
Elgar: Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle
2002
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 75
The Fall of the Louse of Usher
2002
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as Dr. Calahari
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Age: 74
No Image
Lion's Mouth
2000
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as Ken
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Age: 72
Ken Russell: In Search of the English Folk Song
1997
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as Himself
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Age: 70
Vem Var Dracula
1996
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as Self
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Age: 69
Tales of Erotica
1996
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as Mr. Kirsch (segment 'The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch') (uncredited)
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Age: 68
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
1992
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as Sir Arnold Bax
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Age: 65
Whore
1991
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as Waiter (uncredited)
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Age: 63
The Russia House
1990
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as Walter
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Age: 63
A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible
1989
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as
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Age: 61
The Lair of the White Worm
1988
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as Police Radio (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 61
Salome's Last Dance
1988
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as Cappadocian
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Age: 60
Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
1988
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as Himself
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Age: 60
Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell
1987
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as
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Age: 60
A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema
1986
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as Self
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Age: 58
Tommy
1975
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as Cripple (uncredited)
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Age: 47
Savage Messiah
1972
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as Passenger getting off train in station (uncredited)
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Age: 44
Walk With The Damned
1961
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as Hood
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Age: 33