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.
Golden Raspberry Awards
Worst Director
Known For
The Longest Day
(1962)
Director
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
(1965)
Director
Battle of the Bulge
(1965)
Director
Swiss Family Robinson
(1960)
Director
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
(1988)
Director
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
(1952)
Director
The Seekers
(1954)
Director
Value for Money
(1955)
Director
Full Filmography
Directing
London 1942
(1943)
Director
Fenlands
(1946)
Director
We of the West Riding
(1946)
Director
Make Fruitful the Land
(1946)
Director
English Criminal Justice
(1946)
Director
Holiday Camp
(1947)
Director
Quartet
(1948)
Director
Miranda
(1948)
Director
Broken Journey
(1948)
Director
Here Come the Huggetts
(1948)
Director
Landfall
(1949)
Director
Vote for Huggett
(1949)
Director
The Huggetts Abroad
(1949)
Director
Double Confession
(1950)
Director
Trio
(1950)
Director
Hotel Sahara
(1951)
Director
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
(1952)
Director
The Planter's Wife
(1952)
Director
The Sword and the Rose
(1953)
Director
The Seekers
(1954)
Director
You Know What Sailors Are
(1954)
Director
Value for Money
(1955)
Director
Three Men in a Boat
(1956)
Director
Loser Takes All
(1956)
Director
Across the Bridge
(1957)
Director
Nor the Moon by Night
(1958)
Director
Third Man on the Mountain
(1959)
Director
Swiss Family Robinson
(1960)
Director
Very Important Person
(1961)
Director
The Hellions
(1961)
Director
The Longest Day
(1962)
Director
The Fast Lady
(1962)
Director
Crooks Anonymous
(1962)
Director
The Informers
(1963)
Director
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
(1965)
Director
Battle of the Bulge
(1965)
Director
The Long Duel
(1967)
Director
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
(1968)
Director
Monte Carlo or Bust!
(1969)
Director
The Call of the Wild
(1972)
Director
Paper Tiger
(1975)
Director
The Pirate
(1978)
Director
Murder at the Mardi Gras
(1978)
Director
The Fifth Musketeer
(1979)
Director
Institute for Revenge
(1979)
Director
Cheaper to Keep Her
(1981)
Director
The Pirate Movie
(1982)
Director
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
(1988)
Director
Acting
Freedom Radio
(1941)
Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Perilous Assignment
(1959)
Self
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
(2002)
Himself
Rent-A-Person
(2004)
Narrator (Voice)
Writing
Fenlands
(1946)
Screenplay
Crooks Anonymous
(1962)
Writer
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
(1965)
Screenplay
Monte Carlo or Bust!
(1969)
Screenplay
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
(1988)
Writer
Production