KEN ANNAKIN

DIRECTING

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!.