Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 19, 1922
Died
Apr 28, 2001
Place of Birth
Liverpool, England
Credits
46 titles
Ken Hughes
Biography
Kenneth Graham Hughes (19 January 1922 – 28 April 2001) was an English film director and screenwriter. He worked on over 30 feature films between 1952 and 1981, including the 1968 musical fantasy film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, based on the Ian Fleming novel of the same name. His other notable works included The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960), Of Human Bondage (1964), Casino Royale (1967), and Cromwell (1970). He won an Emmy Award and was a three-time BAFTA Award nominee. Hughes has been called "a filmmaker whose output was consistently interesting and entertaining, and deserved more critical attention than it has received." Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Hughes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Night School
Director
Sextette
Director
Making It In Hollywood
Self
Alfie Darling
Director
The Internecine Project
Director
Dial M for Murder
Writer
Fall of Eagles
Writer
Sammy
Writer
Menace
Writer
Cromwell
Director
Shark
Adaptation
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Director
Casino Royale
Director
Arrivederci, Baby!
Director
The Ipcress File
Additional Writing
Of Human Bondage
Director
Espionage
Director
The Small World of Sammy Lee
Director
The Eyes
Director
In the Nick
Director
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Director
Jazz Boat
Director
Kapplöpningen
Writer
High Flight
Writer
The Long Haul
Director
Town on Trial
Writer
Wicked as They Come
Director
Portrait of Alison
Writer
Timeslip
Director
Joe Macbeth
Director
Confession
Director
Little Red Monkey
Director
The Brain Machine
Director
Passenger to Tokyo
Director
The House Across the Lake
Director
The Dark Stairway
Director
The Blazing Caravan
Director
Black 13
Director
The Candlelight Murder
Director
The Missing Man
Director
Scotland Yard
Director
The Drayton Case
Director
Wide Boy
Director
Clyde-Built
Music Arranger
Soho
Director of Photography
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Original Film Writer