Stanley L. 'Stan' Hough (July 23, 1918 – February 23, 1990) was an American movie executive and film and television producer. He worked as an assistant director from 1952-1961, before he became vice-president in charge of production operations at 20th Century Fox. Mort Abrahams, associate producer on the original Planet of the Apes, credited Hough, who controlled the budget on the film, with inspiring it's sequel Beneath the Planet of the Apes during this time: "'Planet' had been doing extremely well and we were talking, patting ourselves on the back, and giving Dick [Zanuck] credit for putting his neck on the line and so forth. Arthur [Jacobs], Stan Hough and I left Dick's office and walked downstairs. As we were walking across the lot, Stan said, 'Why don't you do a sequel?' And I said,