The Devils
1971
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Russell is best known for his Academy Award -winning romantic drama film Women in Love (1969); the historical drama horror film The Devils (1971); the musical fantasy film Tommy (1975), featuring the Who; and the science fiction horror film Altered States (1980).
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- 27 November 2011 (aged 84), Lymington, Hampshire, England
- 1956–2011
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- Director, Writer, Actor
- July 3, 1927
- 44 sec
- November 27, 2011
- Jeremy Urquhart
- Feature Writer/Senior List Writer
- Ken Russell
- 'The Devils' (1971) Starring: Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, Dudley Sutton. Despite being called The Devils, this earth-shattering 1971 film is more of a drama than it is a horror movie, though it’s grisly and disturbing enough in parts to qualify, at least in part, as a work of horror.
- 'Altered States' (1980) Starring: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban. With Altered States, Ken Russell tried his hand at science fiction, and the results represent what might well be one of the filmmaker’s most accessible and popular movies.
- 'Women in Love' (1969) Starring: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson. Standing as what’s likely Ken Russell’s best movie released in the 1960s, Women in Love is also up there with the filmmaker’s best-known works regardless of the decade released.
- 'The Boy Friend' (1971) Starring: Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian. Being a little less bizarre than Tommy, but still feeling quite strange in places, The Boy Friend is another intriguing musical film directed by Ken Russell, and probably the director's best within the genre.
Learn about the life and career of Ken Russell, a controversial and visionary film director known for his flamboyant and provocative style. Find out his birth and death dates, family, trademarks, trivia, quotes and more on IMDb.
- July 3, 1927
- November 27, 2011
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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 · 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...
Nov 28, 2011 · A profile of the controversial director who made films about classical composers, rock music and sexual excess. Learn about his life, career, achievements and controversies in this obituary from 2011.
