Director Ken Russell Dies at 84

Ken Russell Ken Russell, the avant-garde filmmaker behind Women for one another as well as the Boy Friend, has died. He was 84. Russell died Sunday following multiple strokes, his boy Alex Verney-Elliott told The Connected Press. "My father died silently. He died getting a grin on his face," he mentioned. Start to see the stars we lost this year Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell was produced in Southampton, England. He gone after London within the 20s, examined photography and increased to become documentary filmmaker within the BBC. His first feature film was the 1964 romantic comedy French Dressing. In 1967, he directed the spy movie Large Brain with Michael Caine. Russell acquired his first Academy Award nomination for his 1969 film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's Women for one another. The film, which was censored for featuring full-frontal nudity in the two male leads, won star Glenda Jackson an Oscar for top Actress. Music appeared to become a large impact on Russell's films. In 1971, he written and directed The Boy Friend, an homage for the musicals in the 19 thirties. The film starred supermodel Twiggy, who won two Golden Globes on her behalf performance. Russell also modified the rock opera Tommy, which required it's origin from music within the Who. In 1991, Russell directed his last questionable film titled Whore, which received an NC-17 rating. Russell - whose films incorporated 1980's Transformed States and 1987's Medieval - was honored in 1995 with the American Cinematheque getting a retrospective of his work referred to as Shock Value. His sometimes over-the-top films may be polarizing, and triggered Pauline Kael to convey they "cheapen everything they touch." More recently, Russell came out round the British reality show Celebrity Government in 2007, but left within the first week. Russell, who was simply married four occasions, is managed to get by his wife Elise Tribble and also the children.