Ken Russell
Directing
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."
Twiggy
(archival footage)
The Who: One Band's Explosive Story
Self (archive footage)
Director of Devils
Self
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
Self (archive footage)
The Devils Original on-set footage
Mr. Nice
Russell Miegs
The Aristofrogs
Boudica Bites Back
Roman Senator
A Kitten for Hitler
Santa
10 Best Elgar
Self (archive footage)
The Real Blue Nuns
Self
Trapped Ashes
Dr. Lucy (segment "The Girl with Golden Breasts")
Brothers of the Head
Himself
Colour Me Kubrick
The Man In Nightgown
Revenge of the Elephant Man
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Self
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Self - Contributor
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Self
Elgar: Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle
Narrator (voice)
The Fall of the Louse of Usher
Dr. Calahari
The Real Oliver Reed
Self
Lion's Mouth
Ken
Ken Russell: In Search of the English Folk Song
Himself
Vem Var Dracula
Self
Tales of Erotica
Mr. Kirsch (segment 'The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch') (uncredited)
Empire of the Censors
Self
Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue
Self
Alice in Russialand
The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch
Mr. Kirsch
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
Sir Arnold Bax
Whore
Waiter (uncredited)
The Russia House
Walter
A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible
The Lair of the White Worm
Police Radio (voice) (uncredited)
Salome's Last Dance
Cappadocian
Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
Himself
Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell
Gothic
Tourist
A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema
Self
Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait
Self
The Who: The Kids Are Alright
Self
Valentino
Rex Ingram (uncredited)
Tommy
Cripple (uncredited)
Savage Messiah
Passenger getting off train in station (uncredited)
Song of Summer
Priest
Don’t Shoot the Composer
Himself
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
Captain Patterson
Russell at Work
Walk With The Damned
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