British director ken Russell dies
Ken Russell, the British director of Women in Love and The Devils, has died at the age of 84, a friend said on Monday.
British director Ken Russell, the visually baroque and often deliberately excessive and opulent helmer of such films as ``Women in Love,'' ``The Devils,'' ``Tommy'' and ``Altered States,'' died in a hospital on Sunday following a series of strokes, his son Alex Verney-Elliott said Monday.