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
The Wonderful World of Disney
1955
The Longest Day
1962
Battle of the Bulge
1965
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965
The Pirate
1977
Swiss Family Robinson
1960
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
1988
The Call of the Wild
1972
Perilous Assignment
1959
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1952
Third Man on the Mountain
1959
FILMOGRAPHY
All
Movies
TV
Acting
6
Directing
50
Writing
5
Producing
3