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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."
Boudica Bites Back
2009

A Kitten for Hitler
2007
Watch the Birdie
2007

Trapped Ashes
2006
Charlotte Brontë Enters the Big Brother House
2006
The Miners' Picnic by Ken Russell
2005
Revenge of the Elephant Man
2004

Elgar: Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle
2002

The Fall of the Louse of Usher
2002
Lion's Mouth
2000

Dogboys
1998

Ken Russell: In Search of the English Folk Song
1997

Mindbender
1996

Tales of Erotica
1996

Treasure Island
1995

The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch
1995

Alice in Russialand
1995
The Mystery of Dr Martinu
1993

The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
1992

Prisoner of Honor
1991

Whore
1991

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
1990
The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner
1990

Pandora's Box: It's All Coming Back to Me Now
1989

The Rainbow
1989

A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible
1989

Il Mefistofele
1989

The Lair of the White Worm
1988

Salome's Last Dance
1988

Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
1988

Aria
1987

Gothic
1987

Faust
1985

Crimes of Passion
1984

The Planets
1983

Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait
1983

Altered States
1980

Valentino
1977

Lisztomania
1975

Tommy
1975

Mahler
1974

Savage Messiah
1972

The Boy Friend
1971

The Devils
1971

The Music Lovers
1971

Dance of the Seven Veils
1970

Women in Love
1969

Song of Summer
1968

Dante's Inferno
1967

Billion Dollar Brain
1967

Don’t Shoot the Composer
1966

Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
1966

Always on Sunday
1965

The Debussy Film
1965

The Diary of a Nobody
1964

Bela Bartók
1964

French Dressing
1964

Elgar
1962

Mr Chesher’s Traction Engines
1962

The Preservation Man
1962

Pop Goes the Easel
1962

The Lonely Shore
1962

London Moods
1961
Old Battersea House
1961

Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
1961

Prokofiev
1961

Antonio Gaudí
1961

The Light Fantastic
1960

Shelagh Delaney's Salford
1960

A House in Bayswater
1960

A Bedlington Miners' Picnic
1960
Journey Into a Lost World
1960

Scottish Painters
1959

Portrait of a Goon
1959

From Spain to Streatham
1959

Variations on a Mechanical Theme
1959

Gordon Jacob
1959

John Betjeman: A Poet in London
1959

Amelia and the Angel
1958

Lourdes
1958
Peepshow
1956
Knights on Bikes
1956

Twiggy
2025

The Who: One Band's Explosive Story
2022

Director of Devils
2012

Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012
The Devils Original on-set footage
2012

Mr. Nice
2010

The Aristofrogs
2010
Boudica Bites Back
2009

A Kitten for Hitler
2007

10 Best Elgar
2007

The Real Blue Nuns
2006

Trapped Ashes
2006

Brothers of the Head
2006

Colour Me Kubrick
2005
Revenge of the Elephant Man
2004

100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003

Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002

Elgar: Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle
2002

The Fall of the Louse of Usher
2002

The Real Oliver Reed
2000
Lion's Mouth
2000

Ken Russell: In Search of the English Folk Song
1997

Vem Var Dracula
1996

Tales of Erotica
1996
Empire of the Censors
1995

Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue
1995

The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch
1995

Alice in Russialand
1995