Elgar (film)

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Elgar
Genre	Drama Documentary
Written by	Ken Russell Huw Wheldon
Directed by	Ken Russell
Starring	George McGrath Peter Brett Rowena Gregory
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Humphrey Burton
Camera setup	Ken Higgins
Running time	56 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC
Original airing	11 November 1962 (1962-11-11)

Elgar is a drama documentary made in 1962 by the British director Ken Russell. Made for BBC Television's long-running Monitor programme, it dramatised in vigorous style the life of the archetypically English composer Edward Elgar.

The film had the effect of establishing Russell as a major directorial talent, and spawned a series of dramatised biographies of composers by Russell, both for cinema and television. Elgar became "one of the most popular films of its kind ever shown on TV, and contributed to a marked revival of interest in the composer's music." ^[1] The film was narrated by Huw Wheldon. It was selected by the British Film Institute as one of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes.

Cast

George McGrath (Sir Edward Elgar)
Peter Brett (Mr Elgar)
Rowena Gregory (Mrs Elgar)

References

↑ Ken Russell

External links

Elgar at the Internet Movie Database
Elgar (film) at BFI Screenonline

v t e Films directed by Ken Russell

TV	A House in Bayswater (1960) Elgar (1962) Pop Goes the Easel (1962) Portrait of a Soviet Composer (1963) Watch the Birdie (1963) Bartok (1964) The Dotty World of James Lloyd (1964) The Debussy Film (1964) Always on Sunday (1965) Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966) Don't Shoot the Composer (1966) Dante's Inferno (1967) Prokofiev (1968) Song of Summer (1968) The Dance of the Seven Veils (1970) Clouds of Glory: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1978) Clouds of Glory: William and Dorothy (1978) The Planets (1983) Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait (1984) Ken Russell's ABC of British Music (1988) A British Picture (1989) The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990) Prisoner of Honor (1991) The Secret Life of Arnold Bax (1992) Lady Chatterley (mini-series) (1993) Mindbender (1996) Dogboys (1998)

1960s	French Dressing (1964) Billion Dollar Brain (1967) Women in Love (1969)

1970s	The Music Lovers (1970) The Devils (1971) The Boy Friend (1971) Savage Messiah (1972) Mahler (1974) Tommy (1975) Lisztomania (1975) Valentino (1977)

1980s	Altered States (1980) Crimes of Passion (1984) Gothic (1986) Salome's Last Dance (1988) The Lair of the White Worm (1988) The Rainbow (1989)

1990s	Whore (1991)

2000s	The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002)

Operas	Faust (1985) Segment "Nessun Dorma" in Aria (1987) Méphistophélès (1989)

Internet films	A Kitten for Hitler (2007)

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