The Devils (film) The Devils (film) The Devils is a 1971 British historical drama horror film directed by Ken Russell and starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. Russell's screenplay is based partly on the 1952 book "The Devils of Loudun" by Aldous Huxley, and partly on the 1960 play "The Devils" by John Whiting, also based on Huxley's book. The film is a dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest executed for witchcraft following the supposed possessions in Loudun, France. Reed plays Grandier in the film and Vanessa Redgrave plays a hunchbacked sexually repressed
Lynn Redgrave with her sister Vanessa in "Three Sisters" in London, and in the title role of Baby Jane Hudson in a television production of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" in 1991. She made a return to films in the late 1990s in films such as "Shine" (1996) and "Gods and Monsters" (1998) for which she received another Academy Award nomination. Lynn Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for all of the 'Big Four' American entertainment awards (Grammy, Emmy, Oscar and Tony) without winning any of them. Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, to actors Sir Michael Redgrave