Ken Annakin
Ken Annakin | |
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Annakin in 1969 | |
| Born | Kenneth Cooper Annakin 10 August 1914 Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 22 April 2009 (aged 94) |
| Burial place | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery |
| Occupations | Film director, screenwriter, film producer |
| Years active | 1941–1992 |
| Style | Comedies, Adventure comedy, Epic movies, Ensemble cast comedies, Adventure films, Action films |
| Spouse |
Pauline Carter (m. 1959) |
| Children | 2 |
Kenneth Cooper Annakin, OBE (10 August 1914 – 22 April 2009) was an English filmmaker. 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!. He was an Academy Award and Directors Guild of America Award nominee, and received the Order of the British Empire in 2002.