Ken Hughes
Born: 1922-01-19 in Liverpool, England
Died: 2001-04-28
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
1981
- Night School ... (Director)
1978
- Sextette ... (Director)
1977
- Making It In Hollywood as Self
1975
- Alfie Darling ... (Director)
1974
- Fall of Eagles ... (Writer)
- Dial M for Murder ... (Writer)
- The Internecine Project ... (Director)
1972
- Sammy ... (Writer)
1969
- Shark ... (Adaptation)
1968
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ... (Director)
1967
- Casino Royale ... (Director)
1966
- Arrivederci, Baby! ... (Director)
1965
- The Ipcress File ... (Additional Writing)
1964
- Of Human Bondage ... (Director)
1963
- Espionage ... (Director)
- The Small World of Sammy Lee ... (Director)
1962
- The Eyes ... (Director)
1960
- The Trials of Oscar Wilde ... (Director)
- Kapplöpningen ... (Writer)
- In the Nick ... (Director)
- Jazz Boat ... (Director)
1957
- The Long Haul ... (Director)
- High Flight ... (Writer)
- Town on Trial ... (Writer)
1956
- Wicked as They Come ... (Director)
1955
- Portrait of Alison ... (Writer)
- Confession ... (Director)
- Joe Macbeth ... (Director)
- Timeslip ... (Director)
- Little Red Monkey ... (Director)
- The Brain Machine ... (Director)
1954
- The House Across the Lake ... (Director)
- Passenger to Tokyo ... (Director)
- The Blazing Caravan ... (Director)
- The Dark Stairway ... (Director)
1953
- Scotland Yard ... (Writer)
- Black 13 ... (Director)
- The Drayton Case ... (Director)
- The Missing Man ... (Director)
- The Candlelight Murder ... (Director)
1952
- Wide Boy ... (Director)
1944
- Clyde-Built ... (Music Arranger)
1943
- Soho ... (Director of Photography)