Ken Annakin

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1914-08-10 (95 years old)

Deathday

2009-04-22

Place of Birth

Beverley, Yorkshire, England, UK

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.

Acting

1941

Freedom Radio

as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

2004

Rent-A-Person

as Narrator (Voice)

Production

1979

1982

The Pirate Movie

as Director

1962

The Longest Day

as Director

1965

1950

1972

1969

1969

1962

The Fast Lady

as Director

1951

Hotel Sahara

as Director

1960

1957

1948

Quartet

as Director

1967

The Long Duel

as Director

1975

Paper Tiger

as Director

1961

1954

The Seekers

as Director

1948

Miranda

as Director

1950

Trio

as Director

1961

The Hellions

as Director

1962

1962

Crooks Anonymous

as Director

1955

Value for Money

as Director

1952

1948

Broken Journey

as Director

1949

Landfall

as Director

1948

1949

1949

Vote for Huggett

as Director

1956

1947

Holiday Camp

as Director

1956

Loser Takes All

as Director

1963

The Informers

as Director

1981

1946

Fenlands

as Director

1953

1946

Fenlands

as Screenplay

1946

Fenlands

as Producer

1958

1978

The Pirate

as Director

1979

1967

The Long Duel

as Producer

1943

London 1942

as Director

1946

1946

1950

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