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Ken Russell

Ken Russell

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."

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

196

Gender

Male

Birthday

1927-07-03

Place of Birth

Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK

Also Known As

Alfred Russell, Alf Russell

Known For

Whore Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait Gothic The Real Blue Nuns Tommy Trapped Ashes Valentino Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World Salome's Last Dance The Real Oliver Reed The Fall of the Louse of Usher A Kitten for Hitler Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue Boudica Bites Back Savage Messiah The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch Revenge of the Elephant Man Mr. Nice Lion's Mouth The Who: One Band's Explosive Story Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell Don’t Shoot the Composer Brothers of the Head Ken Russell's ABC of British Music Director of Devils A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema 10 Best Elgar The Russia House Empire of the Censors Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil Song of Summer Colour Me Kubrick The Lair of the White Worm Walk With The Damned Russell at Work The Secret Life of Arnold Bax A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible The Devils Original on-set footage PuzzleFace In Search of the English Folk Song The Who: The Kids Are Alright Twiggy Elgar: Fantasy on a Composer on a Bicycle Alice in Russialand 100 Greatest Sexy Moments Tales of Erotica Celebrity Naked Ambition Road to Mandalay French Dressing Billion Dollar Brain Altered States The Devils The Boy Friend Crimes of Passion The Rainbow Women in Love Lisztomania The Music Lovers Mahler Dante's Inferno Dogboys Dance of the Seven Veils Amelia and the Angel Elgar Mindbender Prisoner of Honor The Diary of a Nobody A House in Bayswater Pop Goes the Easel The Light Fantastic London Moods From Spain to Streatham The Preservation Man The Lonely Shore Bela Bartók The Debussy Film Knights on Bikes Always on Sunday Antonio Gaudí Shelagh Delaney's Salford Old Battersea House Gordon Jacob Scottish Painters The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner Variations on a Mechanical Theme Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill Peepshow Mr Chesher’s Traction Engines Journey Into a Lost World Faust The Planets The Miners' Picnic by Ken Russell Prokofiev The Mystery of Dr Martinu Treasure Island Watch the Birdie Aria Il Mefistofele Charlotte Brontë Enters the Big Brother House John Betjeman: A Poet in London A Bedlington Miners' Picnic Portrait of a Goon Lourdes Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
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