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name: "Ken Hughes"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "19 January 1922"
died: "28 April 2001"
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average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T11:52:48.384293+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ken Hughes

Director. Born 19 January 1922 in Liverpool, England. Died 28 April 2001.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 19 January 1922, Liverpool, England
- **Died:** 28 April 2001
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Hughes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1361382, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400731/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70308

## Biography

Ken Hughes (1922–2001) was a British film director and screenwriter. Born Kenneth Graham Hughes in Liverpool, he began his career at the BBC as a sound engineer before directing his first feature, *Wide Boy*, in 1952. He went on to direct and write more than 30 films between 1952 and 1981.

Hughes is best known for directing *Casino Royale* (1967), one of five directors on the film; *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang* (1968), which he also co-wrote; and *Cromwell* (1970). His other credits include *The Trials of Oscar Wilde* (1960) and *Night School* (1981). He received a Primetime Emmy Award and three BAFTA nominations.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, the-numbers.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Casino Royale* (1967), Fi1m 50, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/casino-royale-1967.md)

## Complete filmography (45)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Night School* (1981), Director
- *Sextette* (1978), Director
- *Alfie Darling* (1975), Director
- *The Internecine Project* (1974), Director
- *Dial M for Murder* (1974), series, Writer
- *Fall of Eagles* (1974), series, Writer
- *Sammy* (1972), Writer
- *Menace* (1970), series, Writer
- *Cromwell* (1970), Screenplay, Director
- *Shark* (1969), Adaptation
- *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang* (1968), Director, Screenplay
- *Casino Royale* (1967), Director — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/casino-royale-1967.md)
- *Arrivederci, Baby!* (1966), Director, Screenplay, Story, Producer
- *The Ipcress File* (1965), Additional Writing
- *Of Human Bondage* (1964), Director
- *Espionage* (1963), series, Director, Story, Writer
- *The Small World of Sammy Lee* (1963), Director, Screenplay
- *The Eyes* (1962), Director
- *In the Nick* (1960), Director, Writer
- *The Trials of Oscar Wilde* (1960), Director, Screenplay
- *Jazz Boat* (1960), Director, Writer
- *Kapplöpningen* (1960), Writer
- *High Flight* (1957), Writer
- *The Long Haul* (1957), Director, Screenplay
- *Town on Trial* (1957), Writer
- *Wicked as They Come* (1956), Writer, Director
- *Portrait of Alison* (1955), Writer
- *Timeslip* (1955), Director
- *Joe Macbeth* (1955), Screenplay, Director
- *Confession* (1955), Writer, Director
- *Little Red Monkey* (1955), Director, Screenplay
- *The Brain Machine* (1955), Director, Writer
- *Passenger to Tokyo* (1954), Director
- *The House Across the Lake* (1954), Director, Novel, Screenplay
- *The Dark Stairway* (1954), Writer, Director
- *The Blazing Caravan* (1954), Writer, Director
- *Black 13* (1953), Director, Story
- *The Candlelight Murder* (1953), Writer, Director
- *The Missing Man* (1953), Director, Writer
- *The Drayton Case* (1953), Writer, Director
- *Scotland Yard* (1953), series, Writer, Director
- *Wide Boy* (1952), Director
- *Clyde-Built* (1944), Music Arranger
- *Soho* (1943), Director of Photography, Director
- *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang*, Original Film Writer

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