Billion Dollar Brain

Director Ken Russell Dies at 84

• Nov 28, 2011 09:34 AM ET
• by Robyn Ross

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.