Ken Hughes

Kenneth Graham "Ken" Hughes (19 January 1922 – 28 April 2001) 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.

His daughter is the opera singer Melinda Hughes.

She is the child of his marriage to Cherry Price. Marriage dissolved 1976

Director

• 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

• Sammy (1952)
• Oil Strike North: Deadline (1975)