Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1914-08-10

Deathday

2009-04-22 (94 years old)

Place of Birth

Beverley, Yorkshire, England, UK

Also Known As

Кен Аннакин

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.

Known For

7.7%

Rent-A-Person

Mar 7, 2004

6.3%

Freedom Radio

Feb 4, 1941

10.0%

Perilous Assignment

Nov 6, 1959

0.0%

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

May 7, 2002

0.0%

The Riddle of Robin Hood

Jan 1, 1952

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Acting

2004

Rent-A-Person as Narrator (Voice)

2002

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making as Himself

1959

Perilous Assignment as Self

1952

The Riddle of Robin Hood as Himself

1941

Freedom Radio as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

Directing

1988

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking as Director

1982

The Pirate Movie as Director

1981

Cheaper to Keep Her as Director

1979		The Fifth Musketeer as Director
1979		Institute for Revenge as Director

1978		The Pirate as Director
1978		The Pirate as Director
1978		Murder at the Mardi Gras as Director

1975

Paper Tiger as Director

1972

The Call of the Wild as Director

1969

Monte Carlo or Bust! as Director

1968

The Biggest Bundle of Them All as Director

1967

The Long Duel as Director

1965		Battle of the Bulge as Director
1965		Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes as Director

1963

The Informers as Director

1962		The Fast Lady as Director
1962		The Longest Day as Director
1962		Crooks Anonymous as Director

1961		The Hellions as Director
1961		Very Important Person as Director

1960

Swiss Family Robinson as Director

1959

Third Man on the Mountain as Director

1958

Nor the Moon by Night as Director

1957

Across the Bridge as Director

1956		Three Men in a Boat as Director
1956		Loser Takes All as Director

1955

Value for Money as Director

1954		The Wonderful World of Disney as Director
1954		The Seekers as Director
1954		You Know What Sailors Are as Director

1953

The Sword and the Rose as Director

1952		The Planter's Wife as Director
1952		The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men as Director

1951

Hotel Sahara as Director

1950		The Day Begins Early as Director
1950		Trio as Director
1950		Double Confession as Director

1949		Landfall as Director
1949		The Huggetts Abroad as Director
1949		Vote for Huggett as Director

1948		Here Come the Huggetts as Director
1948		Quartet as Director
1948		Broken Journey as Director
1948		Miranda as Director

1947

Holiday Camp as Director

1946		Make Fruitful the Land as Director
1946		English Criminal Justice as Director
1946		We of the West Riding as Director
1946		Fenlands as Director

1943

London 1942 as Director

Production

1988

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking as Producer

1967

The Long Duel as Producer

1946

Fenlands as Producer

Writing

1988

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking as Writer

1969

Monte Carlo or Bust! as Screenplay

1965

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

1962

Crooks Anonymous as Writer

1946

Fenlands as Screenplay