Russell Mulcahy

Birth Notes:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Birth Date:	23 June 1953

Russell Mulcahy Trivia

Directed two videoclips from the legendary rockband Queen in 1986: "A Kind Of Magic" and "Princes Of The Universe" (featuring 'Christopher Lambert (I)').
Directed video for Elton John's "I'm Still Standing".
Original director of "Rambo III" (1988). Was replaced by Peter MacDonald due to creative differences.
Often casts 'Christopher Lambert (I)'.
Directed (among other things) Duran Duran's Save A Prayer, Rio, and Hungry Like The Wolf, MTV videos, won Video Award from MTV before it started going to the artists (the year after, Madonna got it instead of her directors).

Dynamic film director born June 23rd 1953 in Melbourne, Australia who first gained fame directing visually striking video clips for bands including 'Elton John', 'Duran Duran', "The Buggles" and "Bonnie Tyler". Mulcahy is also well known for feature films, starting off with the comedy Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979), the Aussie 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 (I)' in the violent Ricochet (1991), directed the film adaptation of The Shadow (1994) with 'Alec Baldwin' and took the helm for Tale of the Mummy (1998). 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 Curse of King Tut's Tomb, The (2006) starring 'Casper Van Dien'.