Ken Russell, the controversial and iconoclastic British filmmaker who brought The Who’s Tommy to the screen, helped win Glenda Jackson her first Oscar, made nude male wrestling safe for the moviegoing multitudes, famously clobbered a critic with his own review and faded into an obscurity almost as uncompromising as his cinematic visions, has died following a series of strokes. He was 84.
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Controversial Director Ken Russell Dead at 84
