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.