Ken Hughes

Director

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Also Known As
Kenneth Hughes
Birth Place
Liverpool, England, GB
Born
January 19, 1922
Died
April 28, 2001

Biography

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Began his career making training shorts for the military and directed his first feature in 1952. After establishing himself as an effective craftsman in the 1950s Hughes moved onto lush, big-budget productions in the 60s and 70s....

Filmography

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Night School (1981)
Director
Sextette (1978)
Director
The Internecine Project (1974)
Director
Alfie Darling (1974)
Director
Cromwell (1970)
Director
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Director

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Long Haul, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Right Back Among The Pigs
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Long Haul, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) I Should've Stayed In The Army

Biography

Began his career making training shorts for the military and directed his first feature in 1952. After establishing himself as an effective craftsman in the 1950s Hughes moved onto lush, big-budget productions in the 60s and 70s.

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

Night School (1981)
Director
Sextette (1978)
Director
The Internecine Project (1974)
Director
Alfie Darling (1974)
Director
Cromwell (1970)
Director
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Director
Casino Royale (1967)
Director
Arrivederci, Baby! (1966)
Director
Of Human Bondage (1964)
Director
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
Director
Jazz Boat (1960)
Director
The Trials Of Oscar Wilde (1960)
Director
The Long Haul (1957)
Director
Wicked As They Come (1957)
Director
Joe MacBeth (1956)
Director
The Atomic Man (1956)
Director
The Deadliest Sin (1956)
Director
Little Red Monkey (1955)
Director
Heat Wave (1954)
Director
The Brain Machine (1954)
Director

Writer (Feature Film)

Alfie Darling (1974)
Screenwriter
Cromwell (1970)
Screenwriter
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Screenwriter
Arrivederci, Baby! (1966)
Screenwriter
Arrivederci, Baby! (1966)
Story
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
Screenwriter
Jazz Boat (1960)
Screenwriter
The Trials Of Oscar Wilde (1960)
Screenwriter
Wicked As They Come (1957)
Screenwriter
Town on Trial (1957)
Screenwriter
The Long Haul (1957)
Screenwriter
Postmark for Danger (1956)
Adapted for the screen by
The Deadliest Sin (1956)
Screenplay
Little Red Monkey (1955)
Screenwriter
Heat Wave (1954)
Screenwriter
The Brain Machine (1954)
Screenwriter

Producer (Feature Film)

Arrivederci, Baby! (1966)
Producer

Music (Feature Film)

Jazz Boat (1960)
Composer

Cinematography (Special)

With Peter Beard in Africa (1988)
Assistant Camera Operator

Life Events

1952

Debut as screenwriter and director with "Wide Boy"

Videos

Movie Clip

Long Haul, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Right Back Among The Pigs At a trucker's (or lorry-driver's?) tavern near Glasgow, American Army vet Harry (Victor Mature), who wasn't supposed to get the load of contraband whiskey he's driving, is confronted by racketeer Joe Easy (Patrick Allen), not a friend, who means to intercept it, then his girlfriend (Diana Dors as Lynn) gets impatient, in The Long Haul, 1957, from writer-director Ken Hughes.
Long Haul, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) I Should've Stayed In The Army Persuaded by his English wife to leave the military and stay in England, U.S. Army truck driver Harry (Victor Mature) has taken a job with her brother (George Mills), a Liverpool trucking (or lorry-ing?) kingpin, and on the first day meets colleague Casey (Liam Redmond), who's not altogether upright, Ken Hughes directing, in the English-made Columbia release The Long Haul, 1957, co-starring Diana Dors.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Definitely Unstable Just rescued after a near-accident by friendly motorist “Truly Scrumptious” (Sally Ann Howes), Jemima and Jeremy (Heather Ripley, Adrian Hill), who never go to school, indirectly introduce their crackpot inventor father Potts (Dick Van Dyke), and later his father (Lionel Jeffries, headed to “Inja!”), early in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968, from an Ian Fleming novel, and 007 producer Albert R. Broccoli.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) -- (Movie Clip) She's Not Just Any Old Car After an elaborate opening confirming the (title) car’s lineage, we meet Jemima and Jeremy (Heather Ripley, Adrian Hill) at play, Victor Maddern making an offer to Coggins (Desmond Llewelyn, James Bond’s “Q”) then meeting Sally Ann Howes (as Truly Scrumptious), in the family musical and technical marvel from Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968, starring Dick Van Dyke.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Baron Bomburst, Title Song Inventor dad Potts (Dick Van Dyke) with sweetheart Truly (Scrumptious! Sally Ann Potts) on a beach picnic has just confabulated the evil Baron Bomburst (Gert Fröbe, a.k.a. Goldfinger) for the kids (Heather Ripley, Adrian Hill), cueing another Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman original and one of the first big tech sequences, in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968, from James Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Toot Sweets Joining nutty inventor Potts (Dick Van Dyke) making a pitch to candy kingpin Lord Scrumptious (James Robertson Justice), cajoled by daughter Truly (Sally Ann Howes) and his own kids (Heather Ripley, Adrian Hill), the first big production number, and another Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman original, in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968.
Night School (1981) -- (Movie Clip) I Came In The Back Way Prurient or suspenseful, Rachel Ward as Boston “exchange student” Eleanor arrives home and showers after being stalked by a busboy, who looks a likely murder suspect, as does Drew Snyder, who plays professor Vince whom, we discover, is also her lover, in Night School, 1981.
Night School (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Man's Primitive Past Egghead Boston cop Austin (Leonard Mann) has intruded on the photo-lecture about primitive tribes by women’s college professor Millett (Drew Snyder), asking about his student, the murder victim, meeting top-billed Rachel Ward (as “Miss Ajai” sp?) and Elizabeth Barnitz as Kim, in Night School, 1981.
Jazz Boat (1960) -- (Movie Clip) I Wanna Jive Tonight The actual and highly popular Ted Healy band performs, inside the real Chislehurst Caves in south-east London, Anthony Newley as just introduced Bert, Joyce Blair his date, Bernie Winters his pal Jinx, whose friends Spider, Holy Mike and “The Dancer” (James Booth, David Lodge and Al Mulock) are planning a heist, in Jazz Boat, 1960.
Jazz Boat (1960) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Bleed All Over You Opening in south-east London, approaching Chislehurst Caves, James Booth as biker Spider leads “The Doll” (Anne Aubrey), Holy Mike, Jinks and “The Dancer” (David Lodge, Bernie Winters, Al Mulock), where they meet his dad (Liam Gaffney) taking tickets, in the crime-caper and Teddy-boy musical hybrid Jazz Boat, 1960, starring Anthony Newley.
Heat Wave (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Fast Blondes And Slow Gin Presumably Ken Hughes, the novelist, screenwriter and director, means “slow” not “sloe,” regardless, his opening introduces Alex Nicol as American hack Mark, and places the story at a real location, England’s largest natural lake, in the Hammer Films Brit-Noir Heat Wave, 1954, co-starring Hillary Brooke.
Heat Wave (1954) -- (Movie Clip) The Suspense Was Terrific American writer Mark (Alex Nicol) the morning after the party on England’s Lake Windermere, where he met host Beverley (Sidney James), meets his daughter (Susan Stephen), but the subject is the wife, her stepmother, Carol (Hillary Brooke) whom we know, via flashback, winds up dead, in the Brit-Noir Heat Wave 1954.

Trailer

Wicked As They Come - (Textless Trailer) A ruthless woman (Arlene Dahl) takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder in Wicked As They Come (1957).
Cromwell - (Original Trailer) Richard Harris, Alec Guinness and Timothy Dalton star in the story of the man who overthrew the British monarchy, Cromwell (1970).
Long Haul, The - (Original Trailer) A veteran (Victor Mature) is lured into crime by his boss's sultry mistress in The Long Haul (1957).
Postmark For Danger - (Original Trailer) Terry Moore is an actress who gets tangled in a diamond-smuggling scheme in Postmark For Danger (1955).
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - (Original Trailer) An eccentric inventor uses his flying car to free a kingdom of children from oppression in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) starring Dick Van Dyke.
Casino Royale (1967) - (Pan-and-scan Trailer) The first movie version of the first James Bond novel Casino Royale (1967) was this wild 60's farce with 16 stars and 6 directors.
Of Human Bondage (1964) - (Original Trailer) A medical student (Laurence Harvey) risks his future when he falls for a low-class waitress (Kim Novak) in Of Human Bondage (1964), directed by Ken Hughes.

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