Ken Russell — Actor (15)
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Tommy (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Tommy
director: Ken Russell actor: Oliver Reed / Ann-Margret …
After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
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Lady Chatterley (1993) [TV] TMDB
Lady Chatterley
director: Ken Russell actor: Joely Richardson / Sean Bean …
Lady Constance Chatterley is married to the handicapped Sir Clifford Chatterley, who was wounded in the First World War. When they move to his family's estate, Constance (Connie) meets their tough-yet-quiet groundskeeper, Oliver Mellors. Soon, she discovers that the source of her unhappiness is from not being fulfilled in love, and in turning to the arms of Mellors, she has a sexual awakening that will change her thoughts forever.
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Gothic (1987) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Gothic
director: Ken Russell actor: Gabriel Byrne / Julian Sands …
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
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Whore (1991) [Movie] TMDB
Whore
director: Ken Russell actor: Theresa Russell / Benjamin Mouton …
other title: Whore - Puttana / A Prostituta …
This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.
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The Who: The Kids Are Alright (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
The Who: The Kids Are Alright
director: Jeff Stein actor: Roger Daltrey / John Entwistle …
other title: The Who : The Kids Are Alright / The Who: The Kids are alright
Through concert performances and interviews, this film offers us a comprehensive look at the British pioneer rock group, The Who. It captures their zany craziness and outrageous antics from the initial formation of the group in 1964 to 1978. It notably features the band's last performance with long-term drummer Keith Moon, filmed at Shepperton Studios in May 1978, three months before his death.
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A Kitten for Hitler (2007) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
A Kitten for Hitler
director: Ken Russell actor: Rusty Goffe / Lisi Tribble …
other title: Ein Kitten für Hitler
The result of a challenge from Melvyn Bragg to write a film that Ken Russell himself would be eager to see banned, was A Kitten For Hitler – a 10-minute short in which a plucky young Jewish boy traverses the globe on a quest to warm the Führer's heart with the gift of a cuddly feline.
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Valentino (1977) [Movie]
Valentino
director: Ken Russell actor: Rudolf Nureyev / Leslie Caron …
The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.
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Salome's Last Dance (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Salome's Last Dance
director: Ken Russell actor: Glenda Jackson / Stratford Johns …
other title: L'ultima Salomè / Salomes letzter Tanz …
London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor, has prepared a surprise for the renowned author: a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the peculiar inhabitants of the exclusive establishment will participate.
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Savage Messiah (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Savage Messiah
director: Ken Russell actor: Dorothy Tutin / Scott Antony …
other title: Messia selvaggio / Le Messie sauvage …
In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.
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The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Fall of the Louse of Usher
director: Ken Russell actor: James Johnston / Lisi Tribble …
Rock star Roddy Usher is confined to an insane asylum after murdering his wife. There, he is given various shock treatments by Nurse Smith and Dr Calahari, resulting in a series of bizarre and nightmarish adventures.
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Song of Summer (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Song of Summer
director: Ken Russell actor: Max Adrian / Christopher Gable …
An immensely moving story of sacrifice, idealism and musical genius which charts the last five years of Frederick Delius's life through the eyes of a young composer and aide, Eric Fenby.
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Alice in Russialand (1995) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Alice in Russialand
director: Ken Russell actor: Hetty Baynes / Amanda Ray-King …
Documentary by Ken Russell that shows Alice traveling through a century of Russian's history, from the period of Tsarism, through Socialism and Glasnost. Alice's original characters embody ideological conflicts crossing politics, art and cultural movements.
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Brothers of the Head (2006) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Brothers of the Head
director: Louis Pepe / Keith Fulton actor: Harry Treadaway / Luke Treadaway …
other title: Siameses
In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.