Ken Annakin

Birthday: 1914-08-10
Deathday: 2009-04-22
Birthplace: Beverley, Yorkshire, England, UK
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

Year Title
1988-03-01 The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
1982-08-06 The Pirate Movie
1981-01-01 Cheaper to Keep Her
1979-04-06 The Fifth Musketeer
1979-01-22 Institute for Revenge
1978-11-21 The Pirate
1978-05-10 Murder at the Mardi Gras
1975-11-05 Paper Tiger
1972-11-30 The Call of the Wild
1969-04-28 Monte Carlo or Bust!
1968-01-17 The Biggest Bundle of Them All
1967-07-27 The Long Duel
1965-12-16 Battle of the Bulge
1965-06-16 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1963-11-29 The Informers
1962-12-14 The Fast Lady
1962-09-25 The Longest Day
1962-03-31 Crooks Anonymous
1961-11-27 The Hellions
1961-04-24 Very Important Person
1960-12-21 Swiss Family Robinson
1959-11-10 Third Man on the Mountain
1958-08-07 Nor the Moon by Night
1957-08-20 Across the Bridge
1956-12-23 Three Men in a Boat
1956-09-09 Loser Takes All
1955-08-09 Value for Money
1954-06-22 The Seekers
1954-02-09 You Know What Sailors Are
1953-07-23 The Sword and the Rose
1952-12-04 The Planter's Wife
1952-05-26 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1951-07-09 Hotel Sahara
1950-10-10 Trio
1950-04-30 Double Confession
1949-09-30 Landfall
1949-03-21 The Huggetts Abroad
1949-02-01 Vote for Huggett
1948-12-02 Here Come the Huggetts
1948-10-26 Quartet
1948-04-14 Broken Journey
1948-04-06 Miranda
1947-08-05 Holiday Camp
1946-07-25 Make Fruitful the Land
1946-07-25 English Criminal Justice
1946-07-01 We of the West Riding
1946-01-02 Fenlands
1943-01-25 London 1942