FILM DIRECTOR

Ken Annakin

1914 - 2009

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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 Bust!. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Annakin has received more than 272,959 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ken Annakin is the 529th most popular film director (up from 570th in 2019), the 1,962nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,160th in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ken Annakin ranks 529 out of 2,041. Before him are Seijun Suzuki, Tom Tykwer, Benoît Jacquot, Ulrich Seidl, Mikhail Romm, and Gorō Miyazaki. After him are Jennifer Lee, Osamu Dezaki, Ferdinand Zecca, Alain Corneau, Andrzej Munk, and Denys Arcand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Ken Annakin ranks 133. Before him are Infante Gonzalo of Spain, Saul Steinberg, Lakshmi Sahgal, Adriaan Blaauw, Sergej Kraigher, and Giorgio Almirante. After him are Hans Hellmut Kirst, Ralph Erskine, George Tabori, Unity Mitford, Jerry Siegel, and Dobri Dobrev. Among people deceased in 2009, Ken Annakin ranks 121. Before him are Konstantin Feoktistov, Vyacheslav Ivankov, Karl Koller, Friaça, Pierre Harmel, and Tayeb Salih. After him are Alda Merini, Zbigniew Religa, Béla Király, Eric Woolfson, Rosanna Schiaffino, and Hong Song-nam.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ken Annakin ranks 1,962 out of 8,785. Before him are Mary Astell (1666), Joan Hickson (1906), Rachel Kempson (1910), Elias Ashmole (1617), George Frederic Watts (1817), and Lindsay Kemp (1938). After him are Thomas Hicks (1876), Robert Conquest (1917), Tom Sharpe (1928), Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto (1751), Cecil Beaton (1904), and Roger Deakins (1949).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Ken Annakin ranks 35. Before him are Ken Russell (1927), Derek Jarman (1942), John Badham (1939), Michael Apted (1941), Mike Leigh (1943), and Peter Yates (1929). After him are Paul W. S. Anderson (1965), Hugh Hudson (1936), George Albert Smith (1864), David Byrne (1952), Chris Menges (1940), and Anthony Asquith (1902).

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Filmography

The Longest Day
Director
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Sep 25th 19627.6 / 10
Swiss Family Robinson
Director
After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon face a danger even greater than nature: dastardly pirates.
Dec 21st 19606.9 / 10
Battle of the Bulge
Director
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
Dec 16th 19656.923 / 10