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Ken Annakin

Ken Annakin

Director · 1914–2009 · Beverley, Yorkshire, England, UK

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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.

Directed 47

1980s

  1. 1988

    The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking

    Director

    48
  2. 1982

    The Pirate Movie

    Director

  3. 1981

    Cheaper to Keep Her

    Director

1970s

  1. 1979

    The Fifth Musketeer

    Director

  2. Institute for Revenge

    Director

  3. 1978

    Murder at the Mardi Gras

    Director

  4. 1977

    The Pirate

    Director

  5. 1975

    Paper Tiger

    Director

    59
  6. 1972

    The Call of the Wild

    Director

    60

1960s

  1. 1969

    Monte Carlo or Bust!

    Director

  2. 1968

    The Biggest Bundle of Them All

    Director

  3. 1967

    The Long Duel

    Director

  4. 1965

    Battle of the Bulge

    Director

    67

  5. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

    Director

    72
  6. 1963

    The Informers

    Director

  7. 1962

    The Fast Lady

    Director

  8. The Longest Day

    Director

    78

  9. Crooks Anonymous

    Director

  10. 1961

    The Hellions

    Director

  11. Very Important Person

    Director

  12. 1960

    Swiss Family Robinson

    Director

    70

1950s

  1. 1959

    Third Man on the Mountain

    Director

    69
  2. 1958

    Nor the Moon by Night

    Director

  3. 1957

    Across the Bridge

    Director

  4. 1956

    Three Men in a Boat

    Director

  5. Loser Takes All

    Director

  6. 1955

    Value for Money

    Director

  7. 1954

    The Wonderful World of Disney

    Director

    83

  8. The Seekers

    Director

  9. You Know What Sailors Are

    Director

  10. 1953

    The Sword and the Rose

    Director

  11. 1952

    The Planter's Wife

    Director

  12. The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

    Director

    64
  13. 1951

    Hotel Sahara

    Director

  14. 1950

    Trio

    Director

  15. Double Confession

    Director

1940s

  1. 1949

    Landfall

    Director

  2. The Huggetts Abroad

    Director

  3. Vote for Huggett

    Director

  4. 1948

    Here Come the Huggetts

    Director

  5. Quartet

    Director

  6. Broken Journey

    Director

  7. Miranda

    Director

  8. 1947

    Holiday Camp

    Director

  9. 1946

    We of the West Riding

    Director

  10. Fenlands

    Director

  11. 1943

    London 1942

    Director

Wrote 5

1940s

  1. 1946

    Fenlands

    Screenplay

Produced 3

1960s

  1. 1967

    The Long Duel

    Producer

1940s

  1. 1946

    Fenlands

    Producer

Acted in 1

1940s

  1. 1941

    Freedom Radio

    Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

Appearances5

2000s

  1. 2008

    The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics

    Self

  2. 2004

    Rent-A-Person

    Narrator (Voice)

  3. 2002

    Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

    Himself

1950s

  1. 1959

    Perilous Assignment

    Self

  2. 1952

    The Riddle of Robin Hood

    Self