Ken Annakin

Ken Annakin OBE
Annakin in 1969
Born	Kenneth Cooper Annakin (1914-08-10)10 August 1914 Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died	22 April 2009(2009-04-22) (aged 94) Beverly Hills, California, US
Burial place	Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Occupation	Film director
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)^[1] 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.