Stan Hough

{{short description|American film director}} {{more citations needed |date=April 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2013}} {{Infobox person | name = Stan Hough | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Stanley L. Hough | birth_date = July 23, 1918 | birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1990|02|23|1918|07|23}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | other_names = | occupation = Producer, studio executive | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse = {{marriage|Jean Peters|1971}} }} '''Stanley L. Hough'''{{pronunciation needed|date=September 2024}} (July 23, 1918 – February 23, 1990) was an American film executive and film and television producer.

He worked as an assistant director from 1952 to 1961.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Elmo |title=Elmo Williams: A Hollywood Memoir |date=26 September 2006 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-2621-8 |page=198 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Elmo_Williams/Fk832KXUp9gC |language=en}}</ref> He then became vice-president in charge of production operations at 20th Century Fox.

In 1971 he married the actress Jean Peters after she had divorced her estranged husband Howard Hughes.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rybarz |first1=Beverley |title=The Bridge Builder |date=2005 |publisher=Wakefield Press |isbn=978-1-86254-659-2 |page=5 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Bridge_Builder/vl9PVaRoqHYC |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Peter Harry |title=Howard Hughes : the untold story |date=1997 |publisher=Warner |location=London |isbn=978-0-7515-1597-8 |page=343 |url=https://archive.org/details/howardhughesunto0000brow_d5o4/page/342/mode/2up |access-date=8 April 2025}}</ref> Hough then decided to become a producer and resigned his post at 20th Century Fox. His first job was on the successful movie ''Emperor of the North Pole'' starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Knopf |first1=Christopher |title=Will the real me please stand up? |date=2010 |publisher=BearManor Media |location=Albany, Ga. |isbn=978-1-59393-525-2 |page=126 |url=https://archive.org/details/willrealmeplease0000knop/page/126/mode/2up}}</ref> He then produced the ''Planet of the Apes'' TV series which only lasted for 13 episodes on CBS in September 1974.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Greene |first1=Eric |title=Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race and Politics in the Films and Television Series |date=15 May 2024 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0828-0 |pages=19–20 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Planet_of_the_Apes_as_American_Myth/1L8IEQAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> He wrote the stories for the successful westerns ''Bandolero!'' (1968) and ''The Undefeated'' (1969).

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0396430}} *[http://www.hadleyburg.demon.co.uk/patv/pfpk15.htm 20th Century Fox Biography], unofficial ''Planet of the Apes'' TV series website

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hough, Stan}} Category:1918 births Category:1990 deaths Category:Film directors from Los Angeles Category:Film producers from California Category:American television producers Category:American film studio executives Category:20th Century Studios people Category:20th-century American businesspeople