Cast
Ken Russell
Directing
Cast
Ken Russell
Known for
Directing
Born
1927-07-03
From
Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
Died
2011-11-27
Also known as Alfred Russell, Alf Russell
Biography
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."
★5.9
MOVIE1988
The Lair of the White Worm
as Police Radio (voice) (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1990
The Russia House
as Walter
★5.3
MOVIE1991
Whore
as Waiter (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE2003
Celebrity Naked Ambition
as Self - Contributor
★6.4
MOVIE1975
Tommy
as Cripple (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1977
Valentino
as Rex Ingram (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1995
Alice in Russialand
★5.7
MOVIE1987
Gothic
as Tourist
★3.5
MOVIE2003
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
as Self
★4.8
MOVIE1995
The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch
as Mr. Kirsch
★5.3
MOVIE1995
Empire of the Censors
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE2010
Mr. Nice
as Russell Miegs
★6.3
MOVIE1972
Savage Messiah
as Passenger getting off train in station (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE2006
Brothers of the Head
as Himself
★7.7
MOVIE2025
Twiggy
as (archival footage)
★6.2
MOVIE1988
Salome's Last Dance
as Cappadocian
★6.3
MOVIE1968
Song of Summer
as Priest
MOVIE2012
Director of Devils
as Self
★3.9
MOVIE1996
Tales of Erotica
as Mr. Kirsch (segment 'The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch') (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE2005
Colour Me Kubrick
as The Man In Nightgown
★5.1
MOVIE2006
Trapped Ashes
as Dr. Lucy (segment "The Girl with Golden Breasts")
MOVIE2000
The Real Oliver Reed
as Self
MOVIE1996
Vem Var Dracula
as Self
★7.3
MOVIE1979
The Who: The Kids Are Alright
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2012
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1991
Road to Mandalay
as Self
MOVIE2012
The Devils Original on-set footage
★7.7
MOVIE1997
In Search of the English Folk Song
as Self
MOVIE1961
Walk With The Damned
as Hood
★5.1
MOVIE2002
The Fall of the Louse of Usher
as Dr. Calahari
★4.7
MOVIE2007
A Kitten for Hitler
as Santa
★9.0
MOVIE2000
Lion's Mouth
as Ken
★8.0
MOVIE1966
Don’t Shoot the Composer
as Himself
★6.4
MOVIE2002
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1995
Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue
as Self
★5.4
MOVIE1966
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
as Captain Patterson
★10.0
MOVIE1988
Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
as Himself
★6.5
MOVIE1989
A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible
★6.3
MOVIE1992
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
as Sir Arnold Bax
★8.0
MOVIE2022
The Who: One Band's Explosive Story
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE2010
The Aristofrogs
MOVIE1986
A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema
as Self
MOVIE1966
Russell at Work
★7.3
MOVIE2002
Elgar: Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle
as Narrator (voice)
★4.5
MOVIE2006
The Real Blue Nuns
as Self
MOVIE2004
Revenge of the Elephant Man
MOVIETBA
PuzzleFace
as god
MOVIE2009
Boudica Bites Back
as Roman Senator
MOVIE2007
10 Best Elgar
as Self (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1984
Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait
as Self
MOVIE1987