Russell -- a director who specialized in divisive, emotionally charged films like "Women in Love," "The Devils" and "Tommy" -- didn't start out pursuing film as a career, though. He flirted with the ...

He will be widely mourned.” Russell was born in 1927 in the southern English town of Southampton, where he developed an early interest in film through frequent visits to the cinema with his mother.

Ken Russell, an iconoclastic British director whose daring films blended music, sex and violence in a potent brew seemingly drawn straight from his subconscious, has died at age 84.

KEN Russell is one of Britain's best-known and most influential film directors. He dominated the country's movie industry from the late 60s to early 80s with a string of hit - but controversial ...

Back in 1960 Ken Russell made a remarkable film called The Bedlington Miners' Picnic. Forty five years on he's back in Bedlington to visit the people and places featured in the film.

(And no, The Sound of Music does not qualify.) The Devils, Ken Russell’s incendiary spectacle of sex-crazed nuns, is one of the most controversial films ever made.

The films of Ken Russell are among the most unique in the canon of cinema. In Altered States, he took audiences on a journey into the deepest recesses of consciousness and brought us images that ...

Billy Williams, ‘Gandhi’ and ‘On Golden Pond’ Cinematographer, Dies at 96 The Oscar winner also shot 'Women in Love' and two other films for Ken Russell, plus 'The Wind and the Lion ...

Ken Russell, an iconoclastic British director whose daring films blended music, sex and violence in a potent brew seemingly drawn straight from his subconscious, has died at age 84.