Ken Annakin
Born: 1914-08-10 in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, UK
Died: 2009-04-22
Known For: Directing
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
2004
- Rent-A-Person as Narrator (Voice)
2002
1988
- The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking ... (Producer)
1982
- The Pirate Movie ... (Director)
1981
- Cheaper to Keep Her ... (Director)
1979
- The Fifth Musketeer ... (Director)
- Institute for Revenge ... (Director)
1978
- The Pirate ... (Director)
- Murder at the Mardi Gras ... (Director)
1977
- The Pirate ... (Director)
1975
- Paper Tiger ... (Director)
1972
- The Call of the Wild ... (Director)
1969
- Monte Carlo or Bust! ... (Director)
1968
- The Biggest Bundle of Them All ... (Director)
1967
- The Long Duel ... (Director)
1965
- Battle of the Bulge ... (Director)
- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes ... (Screenplay)
1963
- The Informers ... (Director)
1962
- The Longest Day ... (Director)
- Crooks Anonymous ... (Writer)
- The Fast Lady ... (Director)
1961
- The Hellions ... (Director)
- Very Important Person ... (Director)
1960
- Swiss Family Robinson ... (Director)
1959
- Third Man on the Mountain ... (Director)
- Perilous Assignment as Self
1958
- Nor the Moon by Night ... (Director)
1957
- Across the Bridge ... (Director)
1956
- Loser Takes All ... (Director)
- Three Men in a Boat ... (Director)
1955
- Value for Money ... (Director)
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney ... (Director)
- The Seekers ... (Director)
- You Know What Sailors Are ... (Director)
1953
- The Sword and the Rose ... (Director)
1952
- The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men ... (Director)
- The Planter's Wife ... (Director)
- The Riddle of Robin Hood as Himself
1951
- Hotel Sahara ... (Director)
1950
- Trio ... (Director)
- Double Confession ... (Director)
- The Day Begins Early ... (Director)
1949
- Vote for Huggett ... (Director)
- Landfall ... (Director)
- The Huggetts Abroad ... (Director)
1948
- Miranda ... (Director)
- Broken Journey ... (Director)
- Quartet ... (Director)
- Here Come the Huggetts ... (Director)
1947
- Holiday Camp ... (Director)
1946
- We of the West Riding ... (Director)
- English Criminal Justice ... (Director)
- Make Fruitful the Land ... (Director)
- Fenlands ... (Director)
1943
- London 1942 ... (Director)
1941
- Freedom Radio as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)