Elgar (film)

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
Release
Original network	BBC
Original release	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 Sir Edward Elgar.

The film established Russell as a directorial talent, and spawned a series of dramatised biographies of composers by Russell, both for cinema and television. Elgar helped to revive the reputation of the composer's work.^[1] The film was narrated by Huw Wheldon. The British Film Institute selected it as one of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes.

Cast

Louisa Nicholas (Elgar's daughter)

Works directed by Ken Russell

Films	French Dressing (1964) Billion Dollar Brain (1967) Women in Love (1969) The Music Lovers (1970) 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) Whore (1991) The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002) Trapped Ashes (2006) A Kitten for Hitler (short, 2007)

TV	Elgar (1962) Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966) Dante's Inferno (1967) Song of Summer (1968) Prisoner of Honor (1991) Lady Chatterley (mini-series, 1993)

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

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