Ken Hughes

Born January 19, 1922· Liverpool, England

† Died April 28, 2001

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Emerging from a modest Liverpool upbringing, Hughes moved to London as a child, won a teenage amateur film contest and soon worked as a projectionist before joining the BBC at sixteen, where he trained as a technician and sound engineer and began producing documentaries and Ministry of Defence training films. His directorial debut arrived with the low-budget Wide Boy (1952), after which he helped…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources