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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 248,908 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ken Annakin is the 571st most popular film director (down from 548th in 2019), the 2,166th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,069th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Film Director.

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  • 52.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ken Annakin ranks 571 out of 1,581Before him are Mika Kaurismäki, László Benedek, Hal Roach, Jamie Uys, Hong Sang-soo, and Jean-Daniel Cadinot. After him are Thelma Schoonmaker, Sergei Solovyov, John Glen, Carlo Lizzani, Norman McLaren, and Zoltán Fábri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Ken Annakin ranks 150Before him are Ehmetjan Qasim, Domènec Balmanya, Felice Borel, Dorival Caymmi, Yuri Levitan, and Gino Colaussi. After him are Norman McLaren, Poul Hartling, Henri Langlois, Jorge Bolet, Gyula Cseszneky, and Albert Soboul. Among people deceased in 2009, Ken Annakin ranks 136Before him are Alda Merini, Rosanna Schiaffino, David Eddings, Allen Klein, Ron Silver, and Shi Pei Pu. After him are Yukio Endo, Armen Takhtajan, Amir Pnueli, Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, Fritz Darges, and Roy E. Disney.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ken Annakin ranks 2,166 out of 7,765Before him are Eddie Clarke (1950), Andrew Moray (1265), Mick Box (1947), F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782), Roger Bannister (1929), and Roy Harrod (1900). After him are Jamie Dornan (1982), John Glen (1932), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), Ruth Belville (1854), Shane MacGowan (1957), and Christine McVie (1943).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Ken Annakin ranks 41Before him are David Byrne (1952), Peter Yates (1929), John Badham (1939), Anthony Asquith (1902), Michael Powell (1905), and Paul Greengrass (1955). After him are John Glen (1932), Norman McLaren (1914), Lewis Gilbert (1920), George Albert Smith (1864), Hugh Hudson (1936), and Matthew Vaughn (1971).

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