Ken Annakin

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

1. The Longest Day (1962) — Director
2. Swiss Family Robinson (1960) — Director
3. Battle of the Bulge (1965) — Director
4. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965) — Director
5. The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988) — Director
6. The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) — Director
7. The Call of the Wild (1972) — Director
8. Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969) — Director
9. The Pirate Movie (1982) — Director
10. The Wonderful World of Disney (1954) — Director
11. Third Man on the Mountain (1959) — Director
12. Miranda (1948) — Director
13. Across the Bridge (1957) — Director
14. Crooks Anonymous (1962) — Director
15. The Sword and the Rose (1953) — Director
16. The Fast Lady (1962) — Director
17. The Long Duel (1967) — Director
18. The Fifth Musketeer (1979) — Director
19. The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) — Director
20. Quartet (1948) — Director
21. Double Confession (1950) — Director
22. Paper Tiger (1975) — Director
23. Trio (1950) — Director
24. Very Important Person (1961) — Director
25. Holiday Camp (1947) — Director
26. The Informers (1963) — Director
27. Three Men in a Boat (1956) — Director
28. Value for Money (1955) — Director
29. Broken Journey (1948) — Director
30. The Pirate (1978) — Director
31. Hotel Sahara (1951) — Director
32. Here Come the Huggetts (1948) — Director
33. The Seekers (1954) — Director
34. The Huggetts Abroad (1949) — Director
35. Vote for Huggett (1949) — Director
36. Loser Takes All (1956) — Director
37. The Hellions (1961) — Director
38. The Planter's Wife (1952) — Director
39. Landfall (1949) — Director
40. You Know What Sailors Are (1954) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Rent-A-Person (2004) — Narrator (Voice)
2. Freedom Radio (1941) — Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
3. The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008) — Self
4. Perilous Assignment (1959) — Self
5. Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making (2002) — Himself
6. The Riddle of Robin Hood (1952) — Himself