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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Ken Annakin, film director, dies aged 94

Ken Annakin, OBE, the film director (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines/Battle of the Bulge), who died 22 April, 2009, aged 94, was b 10 Aug 1914.

He was a nephew of the 1st (and last) Viscount Snowden (cr 1931, ext. 15 May 1937). Annakin's father was a brother of Ethel Annakin, who, in 1905, married the Labour politician, and future viscount, Philip Snowden.

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