# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-hughes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:51:36.321Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-hughes"
name: "Ken Hughes"
slug: "ken-hughes"
description: "Kenneth Graham Hughes 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 was an Emmy Award winner and a three-time BAFTA Award nominee."
tagline: "British film director (1922-2001)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9xASt331VoDObNJ2d8u1PJNWX7s.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1922-01-19"
deathDate: "2001-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.87
  momentum:             0.2976190476190476
  historical:           14.95385866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400731/"
    handle:    "nm0400731"
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    title: "Ken Hughes"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Hughes"
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    title: "کن هیوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кен Г'юз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1361382"
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    title: "Ken Hughes"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump