Kenneth Hume

{{Short description|British film director (1926 –1967)}}

Kenneth Hume (22 March 1926 – 25 June 1967) was a British filmmaker and manager known for being married to Shirley Bassey.{{cite news|newspaper=Evening Post|date=7 December 1964|page=35|title=Mods and rockers' now a film}}

Hume made the ballet film Mods and Rockers.{{cite news|newspaper=Evening Post|date=4 July 1964|page=7|title=Ballet will be filmed}}

Although Hume was gay, he married Bassey in 1961. He divorced Bassey in the mid sixties citing Peter Finch and John McAulife as co-respondents.{{cite news |date=28 May 1965 |title=Divorce judge told |newspaper=Liverpool Daily Post (Merseyside ed.) |page=6}} Hume also managed Bassey. He died of an overdose of barbiturates, possibly accidental.{{cite book|title= Miss Shirley Bassey

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