Ken Annakin

1914-2009

Biography: life and films

Ken Annakin was an English film director, screenwriter and producer whose birth name was Kenneth Cooper Annakin. He was born in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, UK on 10th August 1914 and died in Beverly Hills, California, USA on 22nd April 2009, aged 94.

His best films as a film director include Quartet (1948), Landfall (1949), Value for Money (1955), The Longest Day (1962) and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), and whose best work as a screenwriter include Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) and Monte Carlo or Bust (1969).

Ken Annakin directed 44 films and scripted 5 films.

His most frequent genres include: drama (20 films), comedy (16), comedy-romance (3), history (2), comedy-drama (2), War (2) and Fantasy (2).

Our average rating for Ken Annakin over all films is: 2.8

Filmography

Key: d = director; w = writer

Fenlands (1946) [d,w]

We of the West Riding (1946) [d]

Holiday Camp (1947) [d]

Broken Journey (1948) [d]

Here Come the Huggetts (1948) [d]

Miranda (1948) [d]

Quartet (1948) [d]

Landfall (1949) [d]

The Huggetts Abroad (1949) [d]

Vote for Huggett (1949) [d]

Double Confession (1950) [d]

Trio (1950) [d]

Hotel Sahara (1951) [d]

The Planter's Wife (1952) [d]

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) [d]

The Sword and the Rose (1953) [d]

The Seekers (1954) [d]

You Know What Sailors Are (1954) [d]

Value for Money (1955) [d]

Loser Takes All (1956) [d]

Three Men in a Boat (1956) [d]

Across the Bridge (1957) [d]

Nor the Moon by Night (1958) [d]

Mission in Morocco (1959) [w]

Third Man on the Mountain (1959) [d]

Swiss Family Robinson (1960) [d]

The Hellions (1961) [d]

Very Important Person (1961) [d]

Crooks Anonymous (1962) [d]

The Fast Lady (1962) [d]

The Longest Day (1962) [d]

The Informers (1963) [d]

Battle of the Bulge (1965) [d]

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) [d,w]

The Long Duel (1967) [d]

The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) [d]

Monte Carlo or Bust (1969) [d,w]

The Call of the Wild (1972) [d]

Paper Tiger (1975) [d]

The Fifth Musketeer (1979) [d]

Cheaper to Keep Her (1981) [d]

The Pirate Movie (1982) [d]

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988) [d,w]

Gengis Khan (1992) [d]

Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime (2009) [d]



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