Gordon Jacob (film)

Gordon Jacob is a 1959 British short film (17 minutes) about Gordon Jacob from Ken Russell for the Monitor television series. It was Russell's first biopic of a composer.^[1]^[2]

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v t e Works directed by Ken Russell
Films	French Dressing (1964) Billion Dollar Brain (1967) Women in Love (1969) The Music Lovers (1971) The Devils (1971) The Boy Friend (1971) Savage Messiah (1972) Mahler (1974) Tommy (1975) Lisztomania (1975) Valentino (1977) Altered States (1980) Crimes of Passion (1984) Gothic (1986) Salome's Last Dance (1988) The Lair of the White Worm (1988) The Rainbow (1989) Women & Men: Stories of Seduction (1990) Whore (1991) Mindbender (1994) The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002)
Documentaries	John Betjeman: A Poet in London (1959) Gordon Jacob (1959) A House in Bayswater (1959) Pop Goes the Easel (1962) Elgar (1962) Watch the Birdie (1963) Bartok (1964) The Dotty World of James Lloyd (1964) The Debussy Film (1965) Always on Sunday (1965) Don't Shoot the Composer (1966) Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966) Dante's Inferno (1967) Song of Summer (1968) Dance of the Seven Veils (1970) Clouds of Glory (1978) The Planets (1983) Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait (1984) Ken Russell's ABC of British Music (1988) The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990) The Mystery of Dr Martinu (1992) Elgar: Fantasy on a Composer on a Bicycle (2002)
Shorts	Peep Show (1956) Amelia and the Angel (1958) Segment "Nessun Dorma" in Aria (1987) The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch (1993) The Lion's Mouth (2000) A Kitten for Hitler (2007) Segment "The Girl with Golden Breasts" in Trapped Ashes (2006)
TV movies	Prisoner of Honor (1991) The Secret Life of Arnold Bax (1992) Lady Chatterley (mini-series, 1993) Ken Russell's Treasure Island (1995) Dogboys (1998)
Related	Unrealised projects A British Picture

Gordon Jacob (film)

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