Russell MulcahyFilmography

Born:: Melbourne, Australia
Occupation:: Director
Biography:: Director Russell Mulcahy was born in Melbourne, Australia, and got his start making music videos. He made his feature-film directorial debut in 1980 with the British film Derek and Clive Get the Horn starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. In 1986, Mulcahy directed the successful Highlander. He also...Read More

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Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation

Synopsis: Filmmaker Mark Hartley explores Australia's hidden genre in this documentary that casually casts aside "official" film history to celebrate the demented genius of director Brian Trenchard-Smith, and the exciting wave of little-known but supremely entertaining films that entertained adventurous Read More

7/31/09
Give 'Em Hell Malone

Crew: Director

Actors: Thomas Jane, Ving Rhames, Elsa Pataky, Doug Hutchison, Chris Yen

Synopsis: A legendary gunman discovers why sometimes the simplest-sounding missions can also be the most dangerous when he attempts to recover a briefcase containing "the meaning of love" from a five-star hotel. Even the worst criminals tremble with fear upon hearing the name Malone (Thomas Jane). If only Read More

1/1/09
The Courier

Crew: Director

Actors: Adrien Brody

Synopsis: Adrien Brody stars as a courier who's been given the task of delivering a briefcase to a member of the mob in hiding while various crime families and corrupt officials are hot on his heels. Russell Mulcahy (Highlander) directs from a script by Wanted scribes Michael Brandt and Derek Haas. ~ Jeremy Read More

2009
The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Copon, Randy Couture, Karen Shenaz David, Simon Quarterman

Synopsis: Travel back to the beginning and watch as a legend is born in this prequel to The Scorpion King from Highlander and Resident Evil: Extinction director Russell Mulcahy. Having watched his father die at the hands of the king, young Mathayus (Randy Couture) embarks on a lifelong quest for vengeance Read More

2008
Resident Evil: Extinction

Crew: Director

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter, Iain Glen, Ashanti

Synopsis: Director Russell Mulcahy takes over for the third chapter in the Resident Evil film franchise, which finds genetically altered Alice (Milla Jovovich) joining forces with Carlos (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps) to take down the Umbrella Corporation once and for all. Upon emerging from her hideout Read More

9/21/07
The Sitter

Crew: Director

Actors: Gail O'Grady, William R. Moses, Stacy Haiduk

Synopsis: Resident Evil: Extinction director Russell Mulcahy takes the helm for this tense domestic thriller concerning a young couple who believe they have found the perfect live-in nanny, but discover just how wring they are when she begins to methodically destroy their picture perfect suburban lives. Read More

2007
Crash and Burn

Crew: Director

Actors: Erik Palladino, Michael Madsen, David Moscow, Peter Jason, David Groh

Synopsis: Michael Madsen, Erik Palladino, and David Moscow star in director Russell Mulcahy's action thriller about an undercover FBI agent on a mission to infiltrate the treacherous world of "choppers." Special Agent Kevin Hawkins (Palladino) knows that the stakes are high when he ventures into the world Read More

2007
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

Crew: Director

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Malcolm McDowell, Jonathan Hyde, Simon Callow, Leonor Varela, David Schofield

Synopsis: Discover the centuries-old secrets of King Tutankhamen as two archaeologists race to recover the sacred object with the power to save the world, or destroy it, in this globe-trotting adventure starring Casper Van Dien, Jonathan Hyde, and Leonor Varela, and directed by action veteran Russell Mulcahy Read More

2006
Swimming Upstream

Crew: Director

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Jesse Spencer, Tim Draxl, David Hoflin

Synopsis: Based on the true story of a youth from Brisbane, Australia, who overcame family dysfunction to become a world-class athlete, director Russell Mulcahy's drama centers on young Tony Fingleton's (Jesse Spencer) relationship with his distant father, Harold (Geoffrey Rush), and the dedication it took Read More

2/4/05
Mysterious Island

Crew: Director

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Gabrielle Anwar, Vinnie Jones, Omar Gooding, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: Five prisoners of war escape captivity in a Confederate prison camp only to land in an uncharted Pacific island where time stands still and dastardly pirates don't take kindly to strangers in director Russell Mulcahy's screen adaptation of fantasy author Jules Verne's literary classic. They Read More

2005
3

Crew: Director

Actors: Barry Pepper, Elizabeth Mitchell, J.K. Simmons, Chad McCumbee

Synopsis: Barry Pepper stars as stock-car racing legend Dale Earnhardt in this made-for-cable drama. Dale was raised by Ralph Earnhardt (J.K. Simmons), a proud man who worked at a mill to feed and clothe his family but found true satisfaction rebuilding jalopies in his garage and racing them at local events Read More

2004
Skin [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Ron Silver, Kevin Anderson, Rachel Ticotin, Pam Gidley, D.J. Cotrona

Synopsis: Romeo and Juliet was updated to contemporary Beverly Hills in this typically stylish Jerry Bruckheimer TV series. This time around, Juliet was Jewel Goldman (Olivia Wilde), the stunning teenage daughter of Larry Goldman (Ron Silver), a successful producer of steamy adult films. As for Romeo, he Read More

2003
First to Die

Crew: Director

Actors: Tracy Pollan, Gil Bellows, Robert Patrick, Pam Grier, Sean Young

Synopsis: The scene is San Francisco, where a diabolically crafty serial killer is preying on newlywed couples, killing the groom before the bride and then removing both wedding rings. Assigned to track down this maniac is homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer (Tracy Pollan), who, despite the usual quota of Read More

2003
The Lost Battalion

Crew: Director

Actors: Rick Schroder

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-cable feature The Lost Battalion is set in 1918 during the final months of WWI. Assigned to capture an enemy stronghold in Charlvaux at the height of the Argonne campaign, the men of the AEF 308th Battalion, 77th Division, are led by young American major Charles Read More

2002
Jeremiah: The Long Road

Crew: Director

2002
Queer as Folk: Episode 020

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The gang is talking about tonight's King of Babylon contest. David (Chris Potter) doesn't want to go, but he changes his mind when Michael (Hal Sparks) tells him how everyone makes jokes about his age. When they get to the club, Blake (Dean Armstrong) is immediately approached by Dino (Peter Read More

2001
The Point Men

Crew: Director

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Kerry Fox, Vincent Regan

Synopsis: In this espionage thriller, Christopher Lambert stars as Tony Eckhardt, an Israeli intelligence agent with the Mossad. Tony has a license to kill and he may be forced to put it to use as he finds himself chasing a notorious Palestinian terrorist who is determined to put a stop to peace Read More

2001
On the Beach

Crew: Director

Actors: Armand Assante, Bryan Brown, Rachel Ward

2000
Queer As Folk [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Gale Harold, Hal Sparks, Randy Harrison, Thea Gill, Michelle Clunie, Scott Lowell, Sharon Gless

Synopsis: The romantic misadventures of a handful of gay and lesbian friends living in a working-class section of Pittsburgh set the stage for this made-for-cable series, based on a popular (and controversial) British television serial. Brian (Gale Harold) is a professionally driven advertising executive Read More

2000
Tale of the Mummy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Louise Lombard, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Best known for his Highlander series, Russell Mulcahy pays homage to the Hammer films of the 1960s with this all-star recreation of the Mummy story. Centuries ago, a sadistic prince named Talos was buried and his tomb was infinitely cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. Read More

1999
Resurrection

Crew: Director

Actors: Jayne Eastwood, Barbara Tyson, Mike Anscombe, Christopher Lambert, James Kidnie

Synopsis: Christopher Lambert stars in this thriller about a psychotic serial killer whose M.O. is unusual even by the standards of his deadly trade. Beginning shortly before Easter, he begins accumulating body parts for a bizarre, grisly religious ritual -- he intends to reassemble the body of Christ in Read More

1999
Silent Trigger

Crew: Director

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Gina Bellman, Conrad Dunn, Chris Heyerdahl

Synopsis: In this suspenseful action thriller a hitman's botched assignment leads to a death warrant upon his head. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
The Shadow

Crew: Director

Actors: Alec Baldwin, John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle, Ian McKellen

Synopsis: A crime fighter created in the 1930s and popularized in movies, pulp novels, and a radio show starring a young Orson Welles, The Shadow came back to life in 1994 in this slick, well-cast production. Alec Baldwin stars as Lamont Cranston, a murderous opium dealer reformed by a Tibetan mystic, who Read More

1994
Blue Ice

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Caine, Sean Young, Ian Holm, Alun Armstrong, Sam Kelly

Synopsis: Released in the US on cable television, Blue Ice stars Michael Caine as an older, tireder version of his 1960s "Harry Palmer" character (his name, in fact, is Harry Anders). An M16 agent-turned-nightclub owner, Caine is a man of steadfast loyalties. Thus he takes it personally when several friends Read More

1993
The Real McCoy

Crew: Director

Actors: Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp, Gailard Sartain, Zach English

Synopsis: Kim Basinger plays a burglar ex-con who's just been released from a 10-year stint and intends to go straight, when a big-time Atlanta crime boss kidnaps her six-year-old son and forces her to pull one last heist. She concocts an elaborate bank job but goes one step further and outwits both the Read More

1993
Tales From the Crypt: People Who Live in Brass Hearses

Crew: Director

1993
Highlander II: The Quickening

Crew: Director

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside, John C. McGinley, Allan Rich

Synopsis: At the end of Highlander, Juan Ramirez (Sean Connery) died and Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) was rendered mortal. "Highlander 2: The Quickening begins in 1999 when Connor solves the problem of an ever-depleting ozone layer on the earth by devising a giant shield around the entire planet. Read More

11/1/91
Ricochet

Crew: Director

Actors: Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak, Lindsay Wagner

Synopsis: Ricochet, a suspenseful, exciting police thriller that loses its way at the end, is the story of a good cop whose life is destroyed by an obsessed psychotic criminal whom he sent to prison years before. Nick (Denzel Washington) is a successful happily married police officer with a distinguished Read More

10/4/91
Tales From the Crypt: Split Second

Crew: Director

1991
Buried Treasures, Vol. 1: The Directors

Crew: Director

1989
Highlander

Crew: Director

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, Sean Connery, Beatie Edney

Synopsis: With the ultimate throw-down, "There can be only one," Highlander captured the imaginations of fantasy fans seeking a well-executed swordplay epic, becoming a cult classic in the process. Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) is one of a waning few survivors of a clan of immortals. The breed have Read More

3/7/86
Razorback

Crew: Director

Actors: Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, David Argue

Synopsis: Before he directed the cult classic Highlander (1986), music video creator Russell Mulcahy adapted this stylish, tongue-in-cheek horror film from the novel by Peter Brennan. Gregory Harrison stars as Carl Winters, a grief-stricken American husband who has come to a remote corner of Australia to Read More

1984
Derek and Clive Get the Horn

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore

Synopsis: A comedy performance by one of England's favorite comedy duos, replete with expletives undeleted. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1980