Ken Hughes
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Ken Hughes | |
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Born | Kenneth Graham Hughes 19 January 1922 Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK |
Died | 28 April 2001 Los Angeles, California, United States |
(aged 79)
Kenneth Graham "Ken" Hughes (19 January 1922 – 28 April 2001[1]) was a British film director, writer and producer, who is best known as the co-writer and director of the 1968 children's film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Personal history[edit]
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His daughter is the opera singer Melinda Hughes.[2] She is the child of his marriage to Cherry Price. Marriage dissolved 1976
Filmography[edit]
Director[edit]
- Wide Boy (1952)
- The Drayton Case (1953)
- Black 13 (1953)
- The Dark Stairway (1953)
- The House Across the Lake (1954)
- The Brain Machine (1955)
- Little Red Monkey (1955) (and co-script)
- Confession (a.k.a. The Deadliest Sin) (1955)
- Timeslip (a.k.a. The Atomic Man) (1955)
- Joe MacBeth (1955)
- Murder Anonymous (1955)
- Wicked As They Come (1956)
- The Long Haul (1957)
- Jazz Boat (1960)
- The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
- In the Nick (1960)
- The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
- Of Human Bondage (1964)
- Drop Dead Darling (1966)
- Casino Royale (1967) (co-direct only)
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (and co-scriptwriter, 1968)
- Cromwell (1970) (and co-script)
- The Internecine Project (1974)
- Alfie Darling (1975) (and screenplay)
- Sextette (1978)
- Night School (1981)
As writer only[edit]
- Sammy (1952)
- Oil Strike North: Deadline (1975)
References[edit]
- ^ http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f4502ff
- ^ a b Thurber, Jon (30 April 2001). "Ken Hughes; Screenwriter and Director of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'". Los Angeles Times.
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