Ken Turner (born 26 October 1933 in London) is a British television and film director and screenwriter who has worked extensively on series created by Gerry Anderson.
As well as directing various episodes of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967–68), Joe 90 (1968–69) and UFO (1970–71), he also served as assistant director on the film Thunderbirds Are Go (1966).
Away from the Anderson productions, he scripted and directed the 1971 sex comedy film The Love Pill and directed for the 1978 TV series The Bubblies.
He also collaborated with David Mitton, director on Thomas and Friends, to establish their own company, Clearwater Films, from which they started to make TV advertisements using stop-motion animation. After Turner left the company, Mitton teamed up with director Robert D. Cardona to change the name to Clearwater Features, the production company behind the first two seasons of Thomas and Friends and its spin-off series, TUGS.
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