Directed credits
71
Prolific
Very extensive directing filmography.

Directing
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Directed credits
71
Prolific
Very extensive directing filmography.
TMDB popularity
0.7
Low visibility
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TMDB ID: 32327
IMDb ID: nm0001692
Known for: Directing
Born: July 3, 1927
Died: November 27, 2011
Age: 84
Place of birth: Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1958 - 2025
Years active: 68
Average TMDB rating: 6.14
Wikidata: Q55249
Also known as
Alfred Russell • Alf Russell
Frequent jobs
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."




Movies directed by Ken Russell.
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Series directed by Ken Russell.
Highest rated movies linked with Ken Russell.
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Highest rated series linked with Ken Russell.
Most viewed movie titles linked with Ken Russell.
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Most viewed series linked with Ken Russell.
as Rev Caleb Dane Calthrop • 1 eps
as Gerry Raistrick • 1 eps
as Self • 3 eps
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Additional movie credits for Ken Russell.
Additional series credits for Ken Russell.
Movie cast credits for Ken Russell.
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as Russell Miegs
as Santa
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as Dr. Lucy (segment "The Girl with Golden Breasts")
as Himself
as The Man In Nightgown
Series cast credits for Ken Russell.
as Rev Caleb Dane Calthrop • 1 eps
as Gerry Raistrick • 1 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as Sir Michael Reid • 2 eps
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as Self • 3 eps