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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 ...
- 1941–1992
Ken Annakin. Director: The Longest Day. A former salesman and journalist, Ken Annakin got into the film industry making documentary shorts. His feature debut, Holiday Camp (1947), was a comedy about a Cockney family on vacation. It was made for the Rank Organization and was a modest success, spawning three sequels, all of which he directed.
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Apr 24, 2009 · Brian Baxter. Fri 24 Apr 2009 19.01 EDT. Many of the 50 films of the director Ken Annakin, who has died aged 94, were spectaculars. These included The Battle of the Bulge; his most famous project ...
Ken Annakin. Director: The Longest Day. A former salesman and journalist, Ken Annakin got into the film industry making documentary shorts. His feature debut, Holiday Camp (1947), was a comedy about a Cockney family on vacation. It was made for the Rank Organization and was a modest success, spawning three sequels, all of which he directed. He worked steadily thereafter, mainly in light ...
- August 10, 1914
- April 22, 2009
Apr 24, 2009 · By Dennis Hevesi. April 24, 2009. Ken Annakin, a film director with a flair for both light comedy and sweeping action films, a combination he melded in what may be his most famous movie, “Those ...
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Apr 24, 2009 · April 24, 2009 12 AM PT. Ken Annakin, a British director whose films included the family-adventure classic “Swiss Family Robinson,” the madcap comedy “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying ...
Annakin also directed the big-scale war film Battle of the Bulge (also 1965) for the Warner Brothers studio. However, some of Annakin’s better received films are smaller-scale comedies and dramas, including his episodes in Quartet (1948) and Trio (1950), based on Somerset Maugham’s stories, Hotel Sahara (1951), Across the Bridge (1957 ...
