"Women in Love" director Ken Russell dies (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? Ken Russell, the British director of "Women in Love" and "The Devils," has died at the age of 84, the BBC said on Monday.

Media reports said he died in his sleep on Sunday night.

Russell began his career with the BBC and went on to direct some of the most controversial and violent films of the 1960s and 70s.

Women in Love, a 1969 adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's novel, became infamous for its nude wrestling scene between actors Alan Bates and Oliver Reed.

Russell was criticized for the level of violence in the 1971 religious drama "The Devils."

(Reporting by Stephen Addison; Editing by Louise Ireland)

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