Russell began his film career at the age of decade withinside an uncredited a share in Elvis Presley's ''It Happened at the World's Fair. At a age of 12 he landed a large a portion for a juvenile person actor: the lead role when the orphaned Jaimie in the TV american The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters'' (1963–1964). According to a book by Robert Lewis Taylor, this series also asterisked Dan O'Herlihy, Charles Bronson, and the very young Osmond Brothers.

a immature Russell was presently signed to a 10-season locate the Walt Disney Company, reportedly by Walt Disney himself. He starred within numbers of Disney films, like Watch Us, Boys! (1966), The Computer Bore Tennis Shoes (1969), and A Strongest Human in the Globe (1975).

Russell too got the baseball career (Russell's father had been the ballplayer awhile). In the early 1970s, Russell played second base for a minor league franchise of the California Angels (currently the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim). He led his league within hitting using the .563 batting average. When you took the play, he was hit in the shoulder by a 2nd streaming video player running off to second base. A collision tore a rotator cuff in one of Russell's shoulders. A injury forced his retirement from either baseball inside 1973, and he returned to acting.

Russell was nominated for an Emmy Award for even Outstanding Lead Actor within the Limited Series or the Favorite (1979) for the made-for-television film Elvis. He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor inside the Supporting Role within the Motion Picture (1984) for Silkwood.

Russell married actress Season Hubley, whom he had met on the placed of Elvis inside 1979 & it experienced the boy, Boston. Within 1983, in the middle of his divorcement from either Hubley, Russell met his longtime companion, Goldie Hawn, on the set of the film Swing Shift. A few own never married, however have a boy, Wyatt.

Russell occurs as large member of the United States Libertarian Party. He claims that he was typically an pariah within Hollywood because of his Libertarian beliefs, and so moved to sleep in an region outside Aspen, Colorado, where he started to try his hand at writing (he co-wrote Shake L.The.). Within February 2003, Russell and Hawn moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, so that their boy may play hockey.

Filmography
''It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) Follow Me, Boys! (1966) Mosby's Marauders (1967) Guns in the Heather (1968) The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968) The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968) The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) The Bigfoot Execution (1971) Fools' Parade (1971) Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972) Charley and the Angel (1973) Superdad (1973) The Strongest Man in the World (1975) The Captive: The Longest Drive 2 (1976) Used Cars (1980) Escape from New York (1981) The Fox and the Hound (1981) (voice) The Thing (1982) Silkwood (1983) Big Trouble in Little China (1986) Tango & Cash (1989) Stargate (1994) Soldier (1998) Miracle (2004) Sky High'' (2005)