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Ken Hughes (1922-2001) b. Liverpool, England.
Associated with the film industry for
over fifty years, Hughes was a director,television playwright and novelist. Most of his films were crime thrillers, including a bizarre version of Macbeth
transposed to American gangland, Joe Macbeth (1955). The success of The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) with Peter Finch led to bigger-budget projects. His most
ambitious work was Cromwell (1970), in which the dictator of the Commonwealth was seen as a seventeenth-century Castro, leading his freedom fighters. Hughes
did score back-to-back successes with the bond spoof Casino Royale (1967) and Disney's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). Later he directed Alfie Darling
(1975), a 70s sex-comedy follow-up to the Oscar-nominated Alfie
(1966).
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