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Valentine’s Day is finally here, and Netflix has the perfect films to watch on this romantic day with your significant other. In this list, we have included some new films and some classics, but they all have that comforting feeling of love that people crave especially today. So, here are the 10 best romantic movies on Netflix to watch this Valentine’s Day with your partner.

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Hit Man is a romantic crime comedy film directed by Richard Linklater, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Glen Powell. The 2023 film follows Gary Johnson, a mild-mannered psychology and philosophy professor who moonlights as a pretend hitman for the police to catch the people trying to hire him. When he meets a beautiful woman who wants to hire him to kill her abusive husband, his life completely changes.

Even though she's no stranger to Netflix, having starred in the streamer's original movies Outlaw King, Malevolent, and The Wonder, Academy Award-nominated actress Florence Pugh's biggest Netflix role is still to come. The talented star will lead the cast of Netflix's upcoming limited series East of Eden, based on the novel of the same name by John Steinbeck.

Pugh first became attached to star when word of the project was revealed by Deadline back in June 2022, but Netflix officially gave the limited series the green light in September 2024. Along with Pugh leading the cast, three additional cast members were announced at the time of the green light: Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, and Hoon Lee.

On Oct. 21, the ensemble cast of East of Eden was rounded out with Tracy Letts, Matha Plimpton, Ciarán Hinds, Joseph Zada, and Joe Anders. With the cast set, it's reported that production on the seven-episode...

To celebrate the hugely-anticipated release of Deadpool & Wolverine, which is set to explode onto cinema screens this week, we had the pleasure of chatting to some of the cast of the film to try and find out as many secrets as we could. We failed, but we did get some excellent interviews anyway.

Six years after the events of Deadpool 2, Wade Wilson is retired as the mercenary Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and lives a quiet life until the Time Variance Authority (Tva) — a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline — pulls him into a new mission. With his home universe facing an existential threat, Wilson reluctantly joins an even more reluctant Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) on a mission that will change the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Emma Corrin (Lady Chatterley’s Lover) chats to us about playing the film’s villain, Cassandra Nova,...

The BBC is celebrating the art of the literary adaptation by screening a variety of classics on BBC Four. More details here.

The BBC is quite rightly celebrated for its rich history of book to screen adaptations, such as the iconic 1995 version of Jane Austen’a Pride And Prejudice to Cbbc’s hugely successful adaptation of Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker series.

It has now put together a season of 14 adaptations from the BBC archive, some of which have rarely been seen since their original broadcast.

The dramas are:

The Great Gatsby

Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd lead the cast in this 2000 BBC adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel on the American dream in the jazz age.

Small Island

Naomie Harris, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ashley Walters star in this 2009 TV version of Andrea Levy’s novel focusing on the lives and...

The 2023 BAFTA Film Awards longlists were unveiled this morning, and an unexpected frontrunner emerged in Netflix’s wartime epic All Quiet On The Western Front.

The German-language film led the pack, appearing in 15 categories. The film was longlisted in all nine technical categories and nabbed an impressive set of appearances on the Best Film, Director, and Adapted Screenplay lists alongside a Film Not In English language nod.

Directed by German filmmaker Edward Berger, the film is a new take on the classic 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque. The film tells the story of a young German soldier, played by Felix Kammerer, on the Western Front of World War I as he learns how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as he fights for his life. The pic debuted at TIFF. Daniel Brühl, Sebastian Hülk, Albrecht Schuch, and Anton von Lucke also star.

Netflix’s All Quiet...

So, here’s the good news. Martha Plimpton has packed up her home in New York to live and work in London. Pooches to follow.

Her first gig? Playing Jacque in Shakespeare’s As You Like It on the stage of @sohoplace, the West End’s first purpose-built theatre in half a century. That Plimpton should deliver, with aplomb, the ‘All the world’s a stage’ monologue in Josie Rourke’s lively festive production, seems wholly appropriate because the same viewpoint applies elsewhere in town.

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Martha Plimpton in ‘As You Like It’. Photo by Johan Perrson

To watch Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) make the Harold Pinter Theatre’s stage her world in Australian writer Suzie Miller’s legal twister Prima Facie confirms that she’s one of her generation’s best thespians. It was also her debut professional theatre performance.

Stars: Emma Corrin, Jack O’Connell, Joely Richardson, Matthew Duckett, Faye Marsay | Written by David Magee | Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre

Marrying Sir Clifford Chatterley, Connie’s life of wealth and privilege seems set as she takes the title of Lady Chatterley. Yet this idealistic union gradually becomes an incarceration when Clifford returns from the First World War with injuries that have left him unable to walk. When she meets and falls for Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on the Chatterley family estate, their secret trysts lead her to a sensual, sexual awakening. But as their affair becomes the subject of local gossip, Connie faces a life-altering decision: follow her heart or return to her husband and endure what Edwardian society expects of her.

Laure de Clemont-Tonnerre‘s new film Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the fourth film adaptation based on the iconic novel of the same name by D.H. Lawrence; a book...

Lady Chatterley’s Lover cast and character guide. Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre from a screenplay by David Magee, the adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s novel was released on Netflix on December 2. The film follows the title character as she begins a torrid love affair with a gamekeeper following World War I.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover began filming in early 2022, and had its film festival debut at the Telluride Film Festival in September. Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is just the latest adaptation of Lawrence’s work, which has been brought to the big and small screen since 1955, with the French film L’Amant de lady Chatterley. The romance has a small, but memorable cast, which is led by Emma Corrin. Below is a full guide to the cast and characters, and in what other TV series and movies the actors have been in before starring in Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

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Emma Corrin as Lady Chatterley and Jack O’Connell as Oliver Mellors in ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ (Photo Courtesy of Netflix © 2022)

Romantic and sexy, the latest adaptation of D.H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover has Emma Corrin (The Crown) as the titular Lady and Jack O’Connell (Unbroken) as the Lady’s working-class lover, Oliver Mellors. Lawrence’s work, controversial in its time, has been adapted countless times over. Thanks to the sizzling chemistry between Corrin and O’Connell, director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s version is one of the best.

Screenwriter David Magee’s adaptation of Lawrence’s classic novel arrives on Netflix in 2022 as a luscious bodice ripper and rebuke of society’s expectations and restrictions within well-defined classes.

The wealthy Sir Clifford Chatterley (Matthew Duckett) and the lovely Connie Reid marry before Clifford heads off to fight in the Great War. He returns a different man, paralyzed from the waist...

To celebrate the release of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, the newest adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s renowned novel, we had the pleasure of chatting with the film’s cast and director about why it’s worthwhile reinventing the story.

Marrying Sir Clifford Chatterley, Connie’s life of wealth and privilege seems set as she takes the title of Lady Chatterley. Yet this idealistic union gradually becomes an incarceration when Clifford returns from the First World War with injuries that have left him unable to walk. When she meets and falls for Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on the Chatterley family estate, their secret trysts lead her to a sensual, sexual awakening. But as their affair becomes the subject of local gossip, Connie faces a life-altering decision: follow her heart or return to her husband and endure what Edwardian society expects of her.

Chatting with Emma Corrin, Joely Richardson (who starred in...

Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell carry this idealistic, moving French version of Dh Lawrence’s transgressive novel

Here is a movie that could so easily collapse into self-satire, especially at the first sneery-knowing intonation of the word “milady”, a phrase probably now most associated with Parker from Thunderbirds. But the commitment and passion of its two lead performers, Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell, carries this new version of Dh Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and the actor turned director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre finds the keynote of idealism. The film is never shy of eroticism and full-on sex, if sometimes going for a slightly quaint soft-focus approach. But Clermont-Tonnerre is never in any doubt that this is a love story. The last adaptation of any note was from another French film-maker, Pascale Ferran’s flawed Lady Chatterley (based on an earlier version of the book). Perhaps it takes a...

Some people may be slow to go to cinemas as the pandemic eases, but here in Los Angeles, they’re certainly not sluggish to head to awards season events, and Netflix took over the old Amoeba Records space on Sunset Blvd Monday (aka The Lighthouse Artspace) for their very swanky, in-person concert Playlist event which touted a lineup of platinum composers and music supervisors working on their projects.

Not only did the event serve as a music sampling of Q4 Netflix series and movies, but it also doubled as an awards season preview for voters as well. Miramax broke ground on these types of awards events back in the late 1990s, read their English Patient In Word And Music which featured director/scribe Anthony Minghella reading parts of the script, author Michael Ondaatje reading from the book, and composer Gabriel Yared conducting the score before a chamber orchestra in a...

A double winner in Venice this past September with the Silver Lion Grand Jury prize and Luigi De Laurentiis Lion of the Future award, Alice Diop could double down with Saint Omer as the infanticide jury room drama has been nominated for the Prix Louis-Delluc’s two sections: Best Film and Best First Film. If Diop wins for Best Feature it would be a rare female filmmaker win – the last woman to win the award was Pascale Ferran’s Lady Chatterley in 2006. Last year’s winner was the Un Certain Regard selected Onoda – 10 000 nuits dans la jungle by Arthur Harari.…...

Netflix has debuted the trailer for the reimaging of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ featuring Emma Corrin & Jack O’Connell.

Marrying Sir Clifford Chatterley, Connie’s life of wealth and privilege seems set as she takes the title of Lady Chatterley. Yet this idealistic union gradually becomes an incarceration when Clifford returns from the First World War with injuries that have left him unable to walk.

When she meets and falls for Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on the Chatterley family estate, their secret trysts lead her to a sensual, sexual awakening. But as their affair becomes the subject of local gossip, Connie faces a life-altering decision: follow her heart or return to her husband and endure what Edwardian society expects of her.

Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, the film stars Emma Corrin, Jack O’Connell, Joely Richardson, Matthew Duckett, Faye Marsay, Ella Hunt.

Also in trailers – “I know you think I’m crazy…...

Exclusive: Sex Education’s Connor Swindells said he felt privileged to land the lead role in the stonking BBC One WW2 desert warfare drama Sas Rogue Heroes, and he praised director, Tom Shankland (The Serpent) “for considering me for this, because this isn’t something that comes my way.”

The six-part drama, written and created by Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight and from Kudos, is based on Ben Macintyre’s 2016 bestselling authorized wartime history of the Sas.

Swindells, proudly working-class, said that he was apprehensive about auditioning for the part of David Archibald Stirling, a Scots Guard officer and scion of a grand Scottish family with bloodlines stretching back on his mother’s side to King Charles II, and son of a WW1-decorated army general.

“I hadn’t been in those conversations for these types of roles, and it was really Tom Shankland that championed me so much. He really...

Event runs November 2-6.

Bardo, Alcarras, She Said, and Women Talking are among the line-up of 125 films set to unspool at AFI Fest from November 2-6.

Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Mexican Oscar submission Bardo joins the Red Carpet Premieres alongside Steven Spielberg’s previously announced closing selection The Fabelmans, the US premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Oliver Hermanus’s Living, Alek Keshishian’s previously announced festival opener Selena Gomez: My Mind And Me, Maria Schrader’s She Said, and Florian Zeller’s The Son.

Special Screenings comprise Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All, Elvis Mitchell’s documentary Is That Black Enough For You?...

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Snowpiercer star Lena Hall and other Hollywood onscreen talent are responding to recent comments made by Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings actor Sean Bean over the role of intimacy coordinators after the actor said they can “spoil the spontaneity” of intimate scenes on a live set.

In a recent interview with the Times of London Sunday Magazine promoting his new series, the BBC drama Marriage — which zeroes in on four emotional weeks in the 27-year marriage of a couple — Bean was asked about famous sex scenes featured in the 1993 BBC series Lady Chatterley and how those on that project would “have coped” with the intimacy consultants that have now become an increasing presence on sets.

He begins stating that he “should imagine it slows down the thrust of it,” before doubling back with a laugh to correct himself. “Ha, not the thrust,...

Sean Bean isn’t all that thrilled by the increasing presence of intimacy coordinators on film and television sets. According to the “Game of Thrones” actor, these professionals actually have the ability to “ruin” the art of a sex scene.

In a recent interview with the UK’s Times, Bean reflected on the graphic sex scenes in the BBC’s 1993 series “Lady Chatterley,” based on the book “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” saying that, had an intimacy coordinator been present on that set, his performance would’ve suffered.

“It would inhibit me more because it’s drawing attention to things. Somebody saying, ‘Do this, put your hand there, while you touch his thing…’” he explained. “I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise.”

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Isabelle Huppert is set to star as a drug dealer in Jean-Paul Salome’s “La Daronne,” a crime comedy based on Hannelore Cayre’s popular novel.

The film is being produced by Kristina Larsen at Les Films du Lendemain and Jean-Baptiste Dupont at La Boetie Films. Orange Studio has just come on board to handle international sales. Le Pacte will distribute in France. “La Daronne” has also been pre-bought by Canal Plus and Ocs.

Shooting in set to begin next week in Paris. Budgeted at €5.8 million ($6.6 million), “La Daronne” stars Huppert as Patience Portefeux, a French-Arabic translator working for the anti-drug squad in Paris. One day she sets off to help out a woman’s troubled son as a favor and gets embroiled in a failed drug deal, inheriting a pile of cannabis. While keeping her job with the anti-drug squad, Patience crosses to the other side and becomes a well-known drug dealer.

The team behind the BBC's new adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover has promised the series will be as raunchy as Dh Lawrence's famous novel.

Producer Serena Cullen has revealed that some scenes from the new drama left her "quite shocked" and approached the limits of what can be shown on mainstream TV.

"I was quite shocked reading the script, and when I saw the film, watching one sex scene," Cullen told The Sun.

"I have never seen anyone do the things Mellors, the gamekeeper, does to Lady Chatterley. I'm not sure what more we could have shown unless it was for porn.

"I've watched lots of Hollywood films where the girl wears a bra in bed - we didn't do that. So apart from them having sex starkers, which you wouldn't be able to put on any channel, I think we are quite rude."

However, screenwriter Jed Mercurio also promised...

Holliday Grainger has been cast as the lead in the BBC's new adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover.

She will be joined by actors Richard Madden (Game of Thrones) and James Norton (Happy Valley) in Jed Mercurio's (Line of Duty) version of Dh Lawrence's iconic 20th century novel.

Grainger will play the eponymous Lady Chatterley, Madden has been cast as gamekeeper Oliver Mellors, while Norton will play Lady Chatterley's war-wounded husband Sir Clifford.

The new adaptation is a Hartswood Films production in association with Serena Cullen Productions. It will begin filming in Wales this October.

Hartswood Films executive producer Beryl Vertue said: "I am delighted to be working with Serena Cullen who developed this exciting project, and Jed's great screenplay has enabled us to attract these fine actors."

Lady Chatterley's Lover was censored for nearly 30 years after it was published in 1928. It tells the story of an...

Sean Back is back on TV in TNT’s Legends (premieres Aug. 13, 9 p.m. Et). Based on the book by spy novelist Robert Littell, Legends centers on Martin Odum (Bean), an undercover agent working for the FBI’s Deep Cover Operations division who begins to question his own identity when a stranger suggests that Martin isn’t the man he believes himself to be.

We did a little digging of our own when Bean visited EW for our “Firsts & Worsts” video series. Watch his installment and read a full transcript below.

EW: What was your first role?

Sean Bean:...

Sean Bean went on Reddit yesterday to promote his new TNT show, Legends, but he mostly talked about his role as Ned Stark on Game of Thrones, his role as Boromir in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and getting mixed up with Rowan Atkinson. Here’s what we learned.

1. He broke Nicolas Cage’s prehistoric bear skull. “There was one where I went back to Nic Cage’s house, and we’d had a few drinks, we were playing pool and he accidentally knocked over his prehistoric cave bear skull and smashed it. And he was really upset about it,...

BBC One has announced plans to adapt four classic 20th century novels.

Line of Duty's Jed Mercurio is to adapt a new version of Dh Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, while Adrian Hodges (The Musketeers) is working on a new version of LP Hartley's The Go-Between.

Aisling Walsh will direct a new version of Jb Priestley's An Inspector Calls, and Ben Vanstone will adapt Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie.

Lady Chatterley's Lover was censored in English for nearly 30 years since its original 1928 edition. It tells the story of an upper-class woman's affair with her gamekeeper. It was previously directed by Ken Russell as a BBC serial starring Joely Richardson and Sean Bean in 1993.

Jed Mercurio said: "Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature. I'm immensely excited by this opportunity to dramatise its iconic themes in a fresh and original way.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Cider With Rosie, The Go-Between and An Inspector Calls will be adapted as 90-minute dramas for a BBC1 season of early 20th century British novels and plays.

Controller Charlotte Moore and drama controller Ben Stephenson have ordered the dramas, which include Line Of Duty creator Jed Mercurio’s version of Dh Lawrence’s controversial 1928 novel, previously adapted for BBC1 by Ken Russell in 1993.

The sexually explicit novel, which details an affair between an upper-class woman and her gamekeeper, was censored in the UK for 30 years.

The project is a co-production between Hartswood Films and Serena Cullen Productions, and will be produced by Cullen with Sherlock exec Beryl Vertue on board as executive producer. Mercurio has written and will direct.

Meanwhile, Ben Vanstone is adapting Laurie Lee’s childhood memoir Cider With Rosie, about growing up in a Cotswold village on the verge of industrial change.

The drama will reunite Origin Pictures with Jamaica Inn...

TV's hardest-working man on the day Martin Scorsese rang, and how he gets his best critiques at the village Co-op

You play Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire. How did an actor from Kirkby in Liverpool come to play such an iconic American character?

I worked with Martin Scorsese, [executive producer of Boardwalk Empire] on Gangs of New York, and he promised we'd work together again, and he stuck to his word. One day my manager rang to ask if I'd be in because Scorsese's office was going to call me. Obviously I was going to be in! And he rang and said, "I want you to play Al Capone – see you in a couple of weeks."

He made you an offer you couldn't refuse?

It really was! All the details came through – it was an HBO production, with Terence Winter [who co-wrote The Sopranos] – and I was thrown into this whirlwind. All of a sudden I was on this set with 15 cranes,...

To celebrate ITV Studios Home Entertainment’s fantastic Christmas DVD box set collection, including classics such as Prime Suspect, Jeeves & Wooster, Darling Buds of May and The Catherine Cookson Collection, we’ve taken a look at stars past and present – unearthing some modern-day stars with very humble beginnings on the little square box that sits in the corner of the living room…

1) Catherine Zeta-Jones

Although Catherine Zeta Jones began acting in her local theatre, she found her breakthrough role in playing Mariette Larkin in The Darling Buds of May at the tender age of 22. Jones has seen gone on to become a Hollywood A-lister, married to A List resident Michael Douglas and acting with someone of the biggest film stars including Sean Connery, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Liam Neeson, Tom Hanks, and Billy Crystal, in such films as The Mask of Zorro, America’s Sweethearts, The Haunting, Intolerable Cruelty and Chicago,...

Veteran British actress Vanessa Redgrave has remembered late director Ken Russell as a "genius" and revealed she still treasures a tribute he wrote following the death of her daughter Natasha Richardson.

Tommy director Russell, who passed away on Sunday aged 84, cast Redgrave in 1971 film The Devils and also went on to work with both of her daughters in other productions.

Her youngest daughter Joely Richardson worked with him on TV series Lady Chatterley alongside Sean Bean, while Natasha, who died in a skiing accident in Canada in 2009, broke into movies in Russell's 1986 Frankenstein film Gothic.

Redgrave has now paid her respects to Russell, who comforted her when she lost Natasha two years ago.

She tells the BBC, "I think the most important thing that I could possibly say about Ken is that he was, and his films remain, the works of a genius... I was very honoured to be in The Devils... and my youngest daughter Joely did a wonderful, I thought wonderful, Lady Chatterley's Lover with Ken, and my oldest daughter Natasha did a film about Mary Shelley which was a fantastic film, one of her first big feature films.

"I will be grateful to Ken forever personally because when my Natasha died, he wrote the most wonderful appreciation of her work as an actress which I really treasure, so I'm really sorry for his wife."...

Naked wrestling, religious mania and The Who's Tommy: director Ken Russell transformed British cinema. His closest collaborators recall a fierce, funny and groundbreaking talent

Glenda Jackson

I worked with Ken on six films. Women in Love was the first time I'd worked with a director of that genius, and on a film of that size. What I remember most was the creative and productive atmosphere on set: he was open to ideas from everyone, from the clapperboard operator upwards. Like any great director, he knew what he didn't want – but was open to everything else.

As a director he never said anything very specific. He'd say, "It needs to be a bit more … urrrgh, or a bit less hmmm", and you knew exactly what he meant. I used to ask him why he never said "Cut", and he said, "Because it means you always do something different." They gave...

Ken Russell, who has died aged 84, was so often called rude names – the wild man of British cinema, the apostle of excess, the oldest angry young man in the business – that he gave up denying it all quite early in his career. Indeed, he often seemed to court the very publicity that emphasised only the crudest assessment of his work. He gave the impression that he cared not a damn. Those who knew him better, however, knew that he did. Underneath all the showbiz bluster, he was an old softie. Or, perhaps as accurately, a talented boy who never quite grew up.

It has, of course, to be said that he was capable of almost any enormity in the careless rapture he brought to making his films. He could be dreadfully cruel to his undoubted talent,...

British moviemaker Ken Russell has died at the age of 84.

Russell directed several classic British films during his 55-year career, including spy thriller Billion Dollar Brain, The Who's rock opera Tommy, and Oscar-winning 1969 movie Women in Love.

He also notched up a range of acting and writing credits, and was working in front of the cameras as recently as 2010, when he played a university lecturer in crime drama Mr. Nice. He even has a role in upcoming horror movie Invasion of the Not Quite Dead.

Actress-turned-politician Glenda Jackson, who won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Women in Love, paid tribute to Russell after news of his death was announced on Monday.

She told the BBC, "(It was) just wonderful to work with him and to work with him as often as I did. He created the kind of climate in which actors could do their job and I loved him dearly."

Jackson insisted it's "a great shame" Russell was not more widely recognised in the movie industry, adding: "It was almost as if he never existed - I find it utterly scandalous for someone who was so innovative and a film director of international stature."

Joely Richardson, who starred in Russell's BBC TV series Lady Chatterley, adds, "I will forever feel privileged and honoured to have worked with the great Ken Russell. More than that, I was extremely fond of the man himself."

Russell's fellow British filmmaker Michael Winner told the Daily Mirror, "I've known Ken since 1968. He was the most innovative director. I persuaded Oliver Reed to work with him even though Oliver said, 'I'm not a TV star, I'm a movie star.'

"His television was in a field of its own, it was absolutely extraordinary. Then he graduated to movies... He was also a very nice person. He was very cheerful and very well-meaning. He had a very good run even though his style of picture-making became obsolete, but that happened to everyone, Billy Wilder and (Alfred) Hitchcock."

Russell passed away in a hospital on Sunday after a series of strokes. He is survived by his wife Elize.