Ken Hughes
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 19, 1922, Liverpool, England
- Died
- April 28, 2001
- Movies
- 37
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."
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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1977 | Making It In Hollywood | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1981 | Night School | Director |
| 1978 | Sextette | Director |
| 1975 | Alfie Darling | Director |
| 1974 | The Internecine Project | Director |
| 1972 | Sammy | Writer |
| 1970 | Cromwell | Director, Screenplay |
| 1968 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Director, Screenplay |
| 1967 | Casino Royale | Director |
| 1966 | Arrivederci, Baby! | Director, Producer, Screenplay |
| 1964 | Of Human Bondage | Director |
| 1963 | The Small World of Sammy Lee | Director, Screenplay |
| 1962 | The Eyes | Director |
| 1960 | In the Nick | Director, Writer |
| 1960 | The Trials of Oscar Wilde | Director, Screenplay |
| 1960 | Jazz Boat | Director, Writer |
| 1960 | Kapplöpningen | Writer |
| 1957 | High Flight | Writer |
| 1957 | The Long Haul | Director, Screenplay |
| 1957 | Town on Trial | Writer |
| 1956 | Wicked as They Come | Director, Writer |
| 1955 | Portrait of Alison | Writer |
| 1955 | Timeslip | Director |
| 1955 | Joe Macbeth | Director, Screenplay |
| 1955 | Confession | Director, Writer |
| 1955 | Little Red Monkey | Director, Screenplay |
| 1955 | The Brain Machine | Director, Writer |
| 1954 | Passenger to Tokyo | Director |
| 1954 | The House Across the Lake | Director, Screenplay |
| 1954 | The Dark Stairway | Director, Writer |
| 1954 | The Blazing Caravan | Director, Writer |
| 1953 | Black 13 | Director |
| 1953 | The Candlelight Murder | Director, Writer |
| 1953 | The Missing Man | Director, Writer |
| 1953 | The Drayton Case | Director, Writer |
| 1952 | Wide Boy | Director |
| 1943 | Soho | Director |
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