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 Ken Annakin: Dies at 94
British film director Ken Annakin has died in Los Angeles on 22 April 2009. He was 94.
Jack Cardiff, who had been his cinematographer on the 1979 film "The Fifth Musketeer", has also died on the same day and at the same age.
The film-maker Ken Annakin, who directed World War II films "The Longest Day", "Battle of the Bulge", "Swiss Family Robinson" and "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines", has passed away at his home in Beverly Hills on Wednesday.
Annakin's daughter Deborah Peters said that her father's health had been failing since he had a heart attack and stroke within a day of each other in February. Before he was stricken, Annakin had been in good health and always talked about making more movies, even though he had not directed since the early 1990s.
Annakin directed more than 50 films in his five-decade movie career.
Peters said, "He was absolutely fine, other than old age. He was walking and mobile, chatting and working, still trying to get films made. I don't think anybody like that ever really stops".
Ken Annakin's last theatrical motion picture was "The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking" in 1988.
Some of Annakin's famous films are smaller-scale comedies and dramas, including his episodes in "Quartet" (1948) and "Trio" (1950), based on Somerset Maugham's stories, "Hotel Sahara" (1951), "Across the Bridge" (1957), "Crooks Anonymous" (1962), "The Fast Lady" (1963) and "The Informers" (1963).
American actor and producer Robert Wagner, who worked with Annakin on 1968 crime caper "The Biggest Bundle of Them All", has described him as someone who "just loved the movies, and he brought so much enthusiasm to it".
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