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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 ...
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 · 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 Magnificent Men in Their Flying...
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.
- August 10, 1914
- April 22, 2009
Ken Annakin directed over 50 films, ranging from documentaries and popular British hits, such as Holiday Camp and Miranda, to epic international productions including The Longest Day, Those ...
Biography. His career in feature films followed early experience making documentaries, he made his fiction film debut in 1947 with the Rank Organisation. The following year he moved to Gainsborough Pictures to direct three films about the Huggetts, a working class family living in suburban England.
Apr 24, 2009 · Ken Annakin, a British director whose films included the family-adventure classic “Swiss Family Robinson,” the madcap comedy “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines” and the World War II...
