Ken Russell
Director, Actor
Delius (1958)
- Dir. Ken Russell
- Ken Russell's BBC film biography of the music and life of English composer Frederick Delius, who had to overcome blindness and paralysis to fulfil…
Elgar (1962)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Peter Brett, Rowena Gregory, George McGrath
- Restrained and brilliant TV docudrama on England’s greatest 20th century composer, Edward Elgar, that made the director’s name and…
Ken Russell at the BBC (Elgar; Debussy; Always on Sunday; Isadora; Dante's Inferno; Song of Summer) (1962-1968)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Oliver Reed, Vladek Sheybal, Vernon Dobtcheff…
- The engrossing early works of the controversial director comprises six of his famed artist portraits
Billion Dollar Brain (1968)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley…
- The third 'Harry Palmer' spy caper taken from Len Deighton's series, with the bespectacled Caine this time chasing a meglomaniac Texas…
Women in Love (1969)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson
- Ken Russell's esteemed version of D.H. Lawrence's finest novel about a macho entrepreneur, his philosophically and sexually dubious friend and their…
Devils, The (1971)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave
- Ken Russell's subversive foray into Catholic guilt is as bold and disturbing as it is brilliant. Amidst the witch trials of medieval France, Oliver…
Music Lovers, The (1971)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson
- A wonderfully audacious film fantasia based on the life of Russian composer Tchaikovsky, the homosexual who married a nymphomaniac! Richard…
Boy Friend, The (1971)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian…
- Unavailable on any format until recently, this long lost flight of fancy finds Ken Russell remodeling the golden age of musicals in his own…
Mahler (1974)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Robert Powell, Lee Montague, Georgina Hale…
- Ken Russell's biopic on the life of the Jewish composer. As one critic observed – 'Whether the title of the opus is Mahler, Strauss or Elgar,…
Tommy (1975)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Eric Clapton…
- The Who's ground–breaking rock opera about the deaf, dumb and blind kid who plays a mean pin–ball. It's a bad taste extravaganza that…