Ken Howard (born December
26, 1939, in
Hampstead,
North West London, England) is a
successful songwriter,
lyricist and television director. The
songwriting team of Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley
(born March
23, 1940, in
Hampstead,
North West London) was among
the most powerful in the UK in the 60s and 70s. They were responsible
for massive hits for The Honeycombs, Dave Dee, Dozy,
Beaky, Mick & Tich, Peter
Frampton and The Herd, Lulu,
and Matthews Southern Comfort
among others, and were the first British writers to provide a million
selling hit for Elvis Presley - I've Lost You. Television scores
included Miss Marple,
The Flame Trees of Thika, Q.E.D,
Shadowlands,
etc.
As a British film maker Ken Howard has
worked extensively in drama, music and documentary films. These have
included (for BBC) A Penny for Your Dreams, John
Lennon - A Journey in the Life, The Miracle of
Intervale Avenue, Open Mind, Mr Abbott’s Broadway, Sunny Stories (for ITV) South
Bank Show profiles of The New World Symphony Orchestra, Danny
Kaye, Frank
Sinatra, Hakan Hardenberger, Johnnie
Ray and Maxim Vengerov, Will Apples Grow on Mars?
etc. He has been nominated for and won the Celtic Film Festival and BAFTA, BISFA, Emmy, Indie, RTS, Grierson, Billboard, Banff
World TV Festival and US International
Film and Video Festival Awards.
He is a Director of Landseer Productions Ltd in London UK.
He is also co-founder and Director of Sophisticated Games Ltd, having
co-devised the best-selling board game of Sophie's
World and publishing the million-selling Lord of the Rings
board game as well as numerous other successful games.
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