The Resume

(July 3, 1927-November 27, 2011)
Birth name is Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell
Directed 'Women in Love (1969),' 'The Boy Friend (1971),' 'The Devils (1971),' 'The Music Lovers (1971),' 'Savage Messiah (1972),' 'Mahler (1974),' 'Liztomania (1975),' 'Tommy (1975),' 'Valentino (1977),' 'Altered States (1980),' 'Crimes of Passion (1984),' 'Gothic (1986),' 'Salome's Last Dance (1988),' 'The Lair of the White Worm (1988)' and 'Whore (1991)'

Why he might be annoying:

His hair looks like straw.
He is known as 'the bad boy of British cinema.'
His films are flamboyant, incorporating frequent dream sequences and hallucinations.
He loves using rape, S&M and phallic imagery in his movies.
His work is so self-indulgent and controversial that one critic says he is now 'unemployable in cinema.'
His biographical films are rarely true to history.
He is a former ballet dancer.
He looks a bit like Shelley Winters.

Why he might not be annoying:

He's spent his entire career battling with censors.
His parents tried to force him to take over his father's shoe store.
He loves classical music.
He uses a lot of snake imagery.
He doesn't sugarcoat his biographical films.
His frequent collaborator Oliver Reed called him 'insane, but likable.'

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Artsy/Fartsy Directors
• Celebrity Big Brother UK [Complete] (Ranked: 5)
• Celebrity Big Brother UK 5 [2007] (Ranked: 13)
• I Died in 2011 (Ranked: 84)
• I Squandered My Talent
• Look at Me, Yes You! - Finger Pointers
• More Chins than are in a Chinese Phone Book
• National Board of Review Award for Best Director (Ranked: 1971)
• Profiles 11251-11500 (Ranked: 11454)
• Seamen
• Silver Foxes [Gray and Don't Care]
• Stars of Horror Films
• Supersized Egos
• Wieland Kalligaro's Profiles [Series 2]

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 18 Votes: 5.56% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 73 Votes: 43.84% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 14 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 57.89% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 71 Votes: 81.69% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 48 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 26 Votes: 57.69% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 69 Votes: 42.03% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 76 Votes: 72.37% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 130 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 188 Votes: 62.23% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 140 Votes: 58.57% Annoying