
Ken Russell
Known for DirectingBorn 1927-07-03Died 2011-11-27Southampton, 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."Read more
Movies & web series
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Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
1988 · Movie
Old Battersea House
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Old Battersea House
1961 · Movie
Lourdes
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Lourdes
1958 · Movie
Lion's Mouth
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Lion's Mouth
2000 · Movie
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The Preservation Man
1962 · Movie
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The Who: One Band's Explosive Story
2022 · Movie
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Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012 · Movie
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Dance of the Seven Veils
1970 · Movie
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Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003 · Movie
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Twiggy
2025 · Movie
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Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Series
Don’t Shoot the Composer
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Don’t Shoot the Composer
1966 · Movie
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Ken Russell: In Search of the English Folk Song
1997 · Movie
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Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993 · Series
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Elgar: Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle
2002 · Movie
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The Debussy Film
1965 · Movie
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Waking the Dead
2001 · Series
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The Planets
1983 · Movie
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The Who: The Kids Are Alright
1979 · Movie
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The Devils
1971 · Movie
Watch the Birdie
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Watch the Birdie
2007 · Movie
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Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue
1995 · Movie
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Alice in Russialand
1995 · Movie
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Omnibus
1967 · Series
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Elgar
1962 · Movie
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The Lonely Shore
1962 · Movie
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London Moods
1961 · Movie
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Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
1961 · Movie
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Variations on a Mechanical Theme
1959 · Movie
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Dante's Inferno
1967 · Movie
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Altered States
1980 · Movie
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Mahler
1974 · Movie
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Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002 · Movie
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A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible
1989 · Movie
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A House in Bayswater
1960 · Movie
Peepshow
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Peepshow
1956 · Movie
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Women in Love
1969 · Movie
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Antonio Gaudí
1961 · Movie
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Shelagh Delaney's Salford
1960 · Movie
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The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
1992 · Movie
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Lady Chatterley
1993 · Series
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The Music Lovers
1971 · Movie
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The Boy Friend
1971 · Movie
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Tommy
1975 · Movie
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Mr. Nice
2010 · Movie
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Prisoner of Honor
1991 · Movie
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Always on Sunday
1965 · Movie
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Crimes of Passion
1984 · Movie