10.0
10.0
Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
1988
Writer
Ken Russell
Directing
Born:July 3, 1927
Died:November 27, 2011(aged 84)
Birthplace:Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
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CommunityBiography
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."
Filmography (103 movies)
8.0
8.0
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012
as Self (archive footage)
8.0
8.0
The Who: One Band's Explosive Story
2022
as Self (archive footage)
8.0
8.0
Dance of the Seven Veils
1970
Writer
7.6
7.6
The Debussy Film
1965
Director
7.5
7.5
Elgar: Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle
2002
Writer
7.5
7.5
The Devils
1971
Director
7.3
7.3
The Who: The Kids Are Alright
1979
as Self
7.2
7.2
The Planets
1983
Director
7.0
7.0
Elgar: Portrait of a Composer
1962
Writer
6.8
6.8
Dante's Inferno
1967
Director
6.7
6.7
Altered States
1980
Director
6.6
6.6
Mahler
1974
Writer
6.5
6.5
Women in Love
1969
Director
6.5
6.5
The Boy Friend
1971
Screenplay
6.5
6.5
Ken Russell: In Search of the English Folk Song
1997
Writer
6.5
6.5
Antonio Gaudí
1961
Director
6.5
6.5
The Music Lovers
1971
Producer
6.5
6.5
Tommy
1975
Producer
6.4
6.4
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002
as Self
6.4
6.4
Amelia and the Angel
1958
Director
6.3
6.3
Crimes of Passion
1984
Director
6.2
6.2
Salome's Last Dance
1988
Screenplay
6.2
6.2
Song of Summer
1968
Director
6.2
6.2
Prisoner of Honor
1991
Director
6.1
6.1
Savage Messiah
1972
Director
6.1
6.1
The Russia House
1990
as Walter
6.1
6.1
Mr. Nice
2010
as Russell Miegs
6.0
6.0
Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait
1983
Writer
6.0
6.0
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
1992
Writer
6.0
6.0
From Spain to Streatham
1959
Director
6.0
6.0
Always on Sunday
1965
Director
6.0
6.0
The Diary of a Nobody
1964
Director
6.0
6.0
A House in Bayswater
1960
Director
6.0
6.0
London Moods
1961
Director
6.0
6.0
Prokofiev
1961
Director
6.0
6.0
Variations on a Mechanical Theme
1959
Director
6.0
6.0
Faust
1985
Director
6.0
6.0
Bela Bartók
1964
Director
5.9
5.9
The Lair of the White Worm
1988
Screenplay
5.9
5.9
Lisztomania
1975
Screenplay
5.8
5.8
A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible
1989
Director
5.7
5.7
Valentino
1977
Screenplay
5.7
5.7
Peepshow
1956
Director
5.7
5.7
Gothic
1987
Director
5.6
5.6
Billion Dollar Brain
1967
Director
5.6
5.6
The Rainbow
1989
Director
5.5
5.5
Shelagh Delaney's Salford
1960
Director
5.5
5.5
Treasure Island
1995
Director
5.5
5.5
Pop Goes the Easel
1962
Director
5.5
5.5
Dogboys
1998
Director
5.4
5.4
The Mystery of Dr Martinu
1993
Writer
5.4
5.4
Brothers of the Head
2006
as Himself
5.3
5.3
Aria
1987
Director
5.3
5.3
French Dressing
1964
Director
5.2
5.2
Whore
1991
Director
5.0
5.0
Il Mefistofele
1989
Director
4.9
4.9
Trapped Ashes
2006
Director
4.9
4.9
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
1966
Director
4.8
4.8
Knights on Bikes
1956
Director
4.7
4.7
A Kitten for Hitler
2007
Writer
4.5
4.5
The Real Blue Nuns
2006
as Self
4.3
4.3
The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner
1990
Writer
4.1
4.1
The Fall of the Louse of Usher
2002
Director
4.1
4.1
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
1990
Director
4.0
4.0
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
1961
Director
3.8
3.8
The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch
1995
Writer
3.5
3.5
Empire of the Censors
1995
as Self
3.5
3.5
Mindbender
1996
Director
3.4
3.4
Tales of Erotica
1996
Writer
3.0
3.0
The Light Fantastic
1960
Director
Director of Devils
2012
as Self
The Devils Original on-set footage
2012
The Real Oliver Reed
2000
as Self
Walk With The Damned
1961
as Hood
Boudica Bites Back
2009
Director
Lion's Mouth
2000
Director
Alice in Russialand
1995
Director
Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue
1995
as Self
Russell at Work
1966
The Aristofrogs
2010
PuzzleFace
TBA
as god
Vem Var Dracula
1996
as Self
Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell
1987
A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema
1986
as Self
10 Best Elgar
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Don’t Shoot the Composer
1966
Producer
Revenge of the Elephant Man
2004
Director
Old Battersea House
1961
Director
Gordon Jacob
1959
Director
Scottish Painters
1959
Director
Mr Chesher’s Traction Engines
1962
Director
Journey Into a Lost World
1960
Director
Pandora's Box: It's All Coming Back to Me Now
1989
Director
Charlotte Brontë Enters the Big Brother House
2006
Director
The Preservation Man
1962
Director
Lourdes
1958
Director
The Lonely Shore
1962
Director
The Miners' Picnic by Ken Russell
2005
Director
Watch the Birdie
2007
Director
A Bedlington Miners' Picnic
1960
Director
John Betjeman: A Poet in London
1959
Director
Portrait of a Goon
1959
Director
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