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 largescale 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