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Ken Annakin
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!. During his career, Annakin directed nearly 50 pictures.
As director
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
The Pirate Movie
Cheaper to Keep Her
The Fifth Musketeer
Institute for Revenge
The Pirate
Murder at the Mardi Gras
Paper Tiger
The Call of the Wild
Monte Carlo or Bust!
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
The Long Duel
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Battle of the Bulge
The Informers
The Longest Day
The Fast Lady
Crooks Anonymous
Very Important Person
The Hellions
Swiss Family Robinson
Third Man on the Mountain
Nor the Moon by Night
Across the Bridge
Three Men in a Boat
Loser Takes All
Value for Money
The Seekers
You Know What Sailors Are
The Sword and the Rose