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Ken Annakin

Ken Annakin

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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Known For

  • Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
  • The Fifth Musketeer
  • The Pirate Movie
  • The Longest Day
  • Battle of the Bulge
  • The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
  • Double Confession
  • The Call of the Wild
  • Monte Carlo or Bust!
  • Third Man on the Mountain
  • The Fast Lady
  • Hotel Sahara
  • Swiss Family Robinson
  • The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
  • Across the Bridge
  • Quartet
  • The Long Duel
  • Paper Tiger
  • Very Important Person
  • The Biggest Bundle of Them All
  • The Seekers
  • Miranda
  • Trio
  • The Hellions
  • Crooks Anonymous
  • Value for Money
  • The Planter's Wife
  • Broken Journey
  • Landfall
  • Here Come the Huggetts
  • Vote for Huggett
  • The Huggetts Abroad
  • Three Men in a Boat
  • Holiday Camp
  • Loser Takes All
  • The Informers
  • Cheaper to Keep Her
  • You Know What Sailors Are
  • Fenlands
  • The Sword and the Rose
  • Nor the Moon by Night
  • The Pirate
  • Institute for Revenge
  • Murder at the Mardi Gras
  • London 1942
  • We of the West Riding
  • Make Fruitful the Land
  • English Criminal Justice
  • The Day Begins Early