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Russell Mulcahy (born June 23, 1953) is a film director who was born in Melbourne, Australia.

Biography

Russell Mulcahy's career began with making music videos. The videos he directed include:

• "Video Killed the Radio Star" for The Buggles, which was the first music video MTV ever aired
• "Hungry Like the Wolf", "Rio", "Save A Prayer", "The Wild Boys" and at least half a dozen other videos from Duran Duran's first four albums
• "I'm Still Standing" and a dozen more for Elton John
• "Total Eclipse of the Heart" for Bonnie Tyler.
• "Vienna", "The Thin Wall" and "The Voice" for Ultravox.
• "A Kind Of Magic", "Princes of the Universe" for Queen.

Highlander Series

In 1986, Mulcahy directed the cult classic film Highlander, starring Christopher Lambert and featuring music from Queen. He later directed the sequel, Highlander II: The Quickening, but disowned it after the producers interfered with production. Reportedly he wanted to have his credit changed to Alan Smithee, but as he wasn't a member of the Directors Guild of America, he had no way of forcing the producers to change the credit. He eventually took the opportunity to restore his vision for the film - to some extent - with the DVD release of Highlander 2: The Renegade Version.

Filmography As Director

• Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
• The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (2006)
• Swimming Upstream (2003)
• The Lost Battalion (2001) (television movie)
• Queer as Folk (US) (2000) (television series} (pilot episodes and few others in season 1)
• On the Beach (2000) (television movie)
• Resurrection (1999)
• Tale of the Mummy (1998)
• Silent Trigger (1996)
• The Shadow (1994)
• The Real McCoy (1993)
• Blue Ice (1992)
• Ricochet (1991)
• Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
• Highlander (1986)
• Arena (1985)
• Razorback (1984)
• Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979)

External links

• Music videos directed by Mulcahy

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