# Stan Hough

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{{short description|American film director}}
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{{Infobox person
| name          = Stan Hough
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| birth_name    = Stanley L. Hough
| birth_date    = July 23, 1918 
| birth_place   = [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles), California, U.S.
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1990|02|23|1918|07|23}}
| death_place   = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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| occupation    = Producer, studio executive
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| spouse        = {{marriage|[Jean Peters](/source/Jean_Peters)|1971}}
}}
'''Stanley L. Hough'''{{pronunciation needed|date=September 2024}} (July 23, 1918 – February 23, 1990) was an American film [executive](/source/Studio_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](/source/20th_Century_Fox).

In 1971 he married the actress [Jean Peters](/source/Jean_Peters) after she had divorced her estranged husband [Howard Hughes](/source/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](/source/Emperor_of_the_North_Pole)'' starring [Lee Marvin](/source/Lee_Marvin), [Ernest Borgnine](/source/Ernest_Borgnine), and [Keith Carradine](/source/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](/source/Planet_of_the_Apes_(TV_series))'' 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](/source/Western_(genre)) ''[Bandolero!](/source/Bandolero!)'' (1968) and ''[The Undefeated](/source/The_Undefeated_(1969_film))'' (1969).

==References==
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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

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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

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