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Mini Bio. Ken Russell tried several professions before choosing to become a film director; he was a still photographer and a dancer and he even served in the Army, but film was his destiny. He began by making several short films which paved the way for his brilliant television films of the 1960s that are acclaimed for his attention to detail ...
Nov 28, 2011 · Ken Russell, who has died aged 84, was so often called rude names – the wild man of British cinema, the apostle of excess, the oldest angry young man in the business – that he gave up denying...
Directed by Ken Russell • 1991 • United States Starring Theresa Russell, Benjamin Mouton, Antonio Fargas. Ken Russell returned to courting controversy with this graphic look at the life of a Los Angeles sex worker, which, in its raw, unflinching realism marks it as a daring riposte to Hollywood’s...
Nov 29, 2011 · Ken Russell, the English filmmaker and writer whose outsize personality matched the confrontational brashness of his movies, among them “Women in Love” and “The Devils,” died on Sunday at ...
Nov 28, 2011 · Mon 28 Nov 2011 04.20 EST. Ken Russell, the director behind the Oscar-winning Women in Love has died aged 84. Russell died on Sunday in his sleep, according to his friend, the arts writer...
Nov 28, 2011 · The acclaimed, eccentric and polarizing British film director Ken Russell has died, after a series of strokes, at the age of 84. The director of Tommy, Women in Love and Altered States was...
Apr 5, 2024 · Ken Russell (born July 3, 1927, Southampton, Hampshire, England—died November 27, 2011, Lymington, Hampshire) was a British motion-picture director whose use of shock and sensationalism earned him both praise and reprehension from critics.
