Ken Annakin
Beverley, Yorkshire, England, UK

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.

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Roles

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The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
Director | Producer | Writer
The Pirate Movie (1982)
Director
Cheaper to Keep Her (1981)
Director
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
Director
Institute for Revenge (1979)
Director
The Pirate (1978)
Director
Murder at the Mardi Gras (1978)
Director
Paper Tiger (1975)
Director
The Call of the Wild (1972)
Director
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
Director | Screenplay
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Director
The Long Duel (1967)
Director | Producer
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Director
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)
Director | Screenplay
The Informers (1963)
Director
The Fast Lady (1962)
Director
The Longest Day (1962)
Director
Crooks Anonymous (1962)
Director | Writer
The Hellions (1961)
Director
Very Important Person (1961)
Director
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Director
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
Director
Nor the Moon by Night (1958)
Director
Across the Bridge (1957)
Director
Three Men in a Boat (1956)
Director
Loser Takes All (1956)
Director
Value for Money (1955)
Director
The Seekers (1954)
Director
You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
Director
The Sword and the Rose (1953)
Director
The Planter's Wife (1952)
Director
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
Director
Hotel Sahara (1951)
Director
Trio (1950)
Director
Double Confession (1950)
Director
Landfall (1949)
Director
The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
Director
Vote for Huggett (1949)
Director
Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
Director
Quartet (1948)
Director
Broken Journey (1948)
Director
Miranda (1948)
Director
Holiday Camp (1947)
Director
Make Fruitful the Land (1946)
Director