Ken Russell
Ken Russell, the avant-garde filmmaker behind Women in Love and The Boy Friend, has died. He was 84.
Russell died Sunday following multiple strokes, his son Alex Verney-Elliott told The Associated Press. "My father died peacefully. He died with a smile on his face," he said.
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