Ken Annakin

DirectorWriterProducer

Born: August 10, 1914
Died: April 22, 2009

A former salesman and journalist, Ken Annakin got into the film industry making documentary shorts. His feature debut, Holiday Camp (1947), was a comedy about a Cockney family on vacation. It was made for the Rank Organization and was a modest success, spawning three sequels, all of which he…

Director

Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime(1992)

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking(1988)

The Pirate Movie(1982)

Cheaper to Keep Her(1980)

The Fifth Musketeer(1979)

Writer

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking(1988)

Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies(1969)

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes(1965)

Mission in Morocco(1960)

English Criminal Justice(1946)

Actor

Rent-a-Person(2004)as Narrator

The Voice in the Night(1941)as Radio Announcer

Producer

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking(1988)

Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies(1969)

The Long Duel(1967)

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes(1965)

Fenlands(1946)

Thanks

The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics(2008)

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making(2002)

Walt: The Man Behind the Myth(2001)

Self

The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics(2008)as Self - Interviewee

A Day to Remember: A Conversation with Ken Annakin(2006)as Self

The 100 Greatest War Films(2005)as Self

Conversations with Ken Annakin(2004)as Self

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making(2002)as Self - Director

Archive Footage

Robert Shaw: Jaws, Deoch & Deora(2015)as Self

Calendar(1968)as Self

The 82nd Annual Academy Awards(2010)as Self - In Memoriam

The Orange British Academy Film Awards(2010)as Self - Memorial Tribute

TCM Remembers 2009(2009)as Self - Director