FILM DIRECTOR

Ken Annakin

1914 - 2009

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ken Annakin is the 591st most popular film director (down from 529th in 2019), the 2,487th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,963rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ken Annakin ranks 591 out of 2,041. Before him are Hugh Hudson, Jennifer Lee, Mauritz Stiller, Ann Hui, Paul Haggis, and Seijun Suzuki. After him are John Lasseter, Ralph Bakshi, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Gérard Krawczyk, and Ildikó Enyedi.

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Among people born in 1914, Ken Annakin ranks 176. Before him are Taisen Deshimaru, Jerry Siegel, Kenny Clarke, Beatrice Straight, Henri Langlois, and Grigol Abashidze. After him are Max Wünsche, Gretel Bergmann, Sándor Képíró, Toulo de Graffenried, Howard Fast, and Zivia Lubetkin. Among people deceased in 2009, Ken Annakin ranks 149. Before him are Natalya Estemirova, Dan O'Bannon, Yoshito Usui, José Torres, Stéphanos II Ghattas, and Venetia Burney. After him are Alda Merini, Jim Carroll, Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Jim Rohn, Béla Király, and Robert Anderson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ken Annakin ranks 2,488 out of 8,785. Before him are Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874), Venetia Burney (1918), Barbara Castle (1910), Tommy Lawrence (1940), Andrew Moray (1265), and Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455). After him are J. F. C. Fuller (1878), Dion Fortune (1890), Geraldine James (1950), Benedict Biscop (628), Frederick Holman (1885), and Jane Asher (1946).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Ken Annakin ranks 46. Before him are Mike Leigh (1943), Nicolas Roeg (1928), Peter Yates (1929), Derek Jarman (1942), Paul W. S. Anderson (1965), and Hugh Hudson (1936). After him are John Badham (1939), Lewis Gilbert (1920), Anthony Asquith (1902), John Madden (1949), Sally Potter (1949), and James Whale (1889).

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