- Dynamic film/video director Russell Mulcahy was born June 23, 1953, in Melbourne, Australia. He first gained fame directing visually striking music video clips for such artists as Elton John, Duran Duran, The Buggles and Bonnie Tyler. He is also well known for feature films, starting off with the comedy Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979), the horror film Razorback (1984), the spectacular sword and sorcery of Highlander (1986), followed by the sequel Highlander II: The Quickening (1991).
He directed Denzel Washington and John Lithgow in the violent Ricochet (1991), made The Shadow (1994) with Alec Baldwin (a film version of the comic book) and took the helm for Swimming Upstream (2003).
In recent years Mulcahy has been involved in directing several telemovies and episodes of TV shows, including Queer as Folk (2000), 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004), Mysterious Island (2005) and The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (2006) starring Casper Van Dien.
- IMDb mini biography by: firehouse44@hotmail.com, aaron.devandry@gmail.com
- Frequently incorporates water as a design element in production
- Fast cutting
- Often casts Christopher Lambert.
- Original director of Rambo III (1988). Was replaced by Peter MacDonald due to "creative differences".
- Was in talks to direct Total Recall (1990) after Highlander (1986), before Sylvester Stallone called him up for Rambo III (1988).
- Filmmaker of several music videos along the 80s (and later) turned with time in generational icons.
- The only gay director to direct a live action Resident Evil movie.
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