Ken Annakin

Born: 1914-08-10, Beverley, Yorkshire, England, UK

Died: 2009-04-22

Biography

Kenneth Cooper Annakin, OBE (10 August 1914 – 22 April 2009) was an English film director. His career spanned half a century, beginning in the early 1940s and ending in 1992, and in the 1960s he was noticed by critics with large-scale adventure epic and comedies films, like Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Battle of the Bulge, The Biggest Bundle of Them All and Monte Carlo or Bust!. During his career, Annakin directed nearly 50 pictures.

Filmography

• The Longest Day (1962)
• Battle of the Bulge (1965)
• Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
• The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)
• The Long Duel (1967)
• The Pirate Movie (1982)
• Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
• The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
• The Sword and the Rose (1953)
• The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
• The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
• Fenlands (1946)
• Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
• Crooks Anonymous (1962)
• Freedom Radio (1941)
• The Hellions (1961)
• Hotel Sahara (1951)
• Rent-A-Person (2004)
• The Fast Lady (1962)
• Value for Money (1955)
• Holiday Camp (1947)
• Institute for Revenge (1979)
• London 1942 (1943)
• Across the Bridge (1957)
• Loser Takes All (1956)
• The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
• Broken Journey (1948)
• The Planter's Wife (1952)
• The Riddle of Robin Hood (1952)