Ken Annakin

Kenneth Cooper Annakin, 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.