Who’s Who: Ken Russell
KEN RUSSELL (Director). Known as Britain's "enfant terrible" of cinema, the British filmmaker Ken Russell, is best known in the United States as director of such feature films as Women in Love (1969), The Music Lovers (1970), Tommy (1975), and Altered States (1980). Although his television work is less well known outside the United Kingdom, it has had a major impact on the development of the television genre of fictional history. Other film credits include Amelia and the Angel (1957) Peep Show (1958), Lourdes (1958) French Dressing (1963) Billion Dollar Brain (1967), The Devils (1971), The Boy Friend (1971) The Savage Messiah (1972); Mahler (1974), Lisztomania (1975), Valentino (1977), Crimes of Passion (1984), Gothic (1986) Salomé's Last Dance (1988), The Lair of the White Worm (1988) The Rainbow (1989) and Whore (1991). On stage, Russell has directed the operas The Rake's Progress (1982) Die Soldaten (1983) Madame Butterfly (1983), La Bohème (1984), Faust (1985) Princess Ida (1992) and Salomé (1993). With Mindgame, Russell makes his New York stage debut.
