2002. He is only the second film director to be so honoured. He was also awarded an OBE the same year for service to the film industry and received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Hull University. He died on 22 April 2009, the same day as Jack Cardiff, who had been his cinematographer on the 1979 film The Fifth Musketeer. A daughter from a previous marriage predeceased him. The cause of his death was myocardial infarction and stroke. Claims were made that George Lucas took the name for Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars from his fellow film director; however, Lucas's publicist denied this following Annakin's death in 2009. Filmography London 1942 (1943) Make Fruitful the Land (1945) We of the West Riding (1946) English Criminal Justice (1946) It Began on the Clyde (1946) Fenlands (1946) Holiday Camp (1947) Miranda (1948) Broken Journey (1948) Quartet (1948) Here Come the Huggetts (1948) Vote for Huggett (1949) The Huggetts Abroad (1949) Landfall (1949) Double Confession (1950) Hotel Sahara (1951) The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) The Planter's Wife (1952) The Sword and the Rose (1953) You Know What Sailors Are (1954) The Seekers (1954) Value for Money (1955) Loser Takes All (1956) Three Men in a Boat (1956) Across the Bridge (1957) Nor the Moon by Night (1958) Third Man on the Mountain (1959) Swiss Family Robinson (1960) Very Important Person (1961) The Hellions (1961) The Fast Lady (1962) The Longest Day (1962) Crooks Anonymous (1962) The Informers (1963) Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) Battle of the Bulge (1965) The Long Duel (1967) The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969) The Call of the Wild (1972) Paper Tiger (1975) The Pirate (1978) Institute for Revenge (1979) The Fifth Musketeer (1979) Cheaper to Keep Her (1981) The Pirate Movie (1982) The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988) Genghis Khan'' (1992) (unreleased) References External links Ken Annakin biography at BFI Screenonline AP Obituary in the Los Angeles Times Obituary in The Times Obituary in The Guardian Obituary in The Independent Obituary in The Daily Telegraph 1914 births 2009 deaths 20th-century English businesspeople 20th-century English male writers 20th-century English screenwriters Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery Civil servants in the Ministry of Information (United Kingdom) English film directors English film producers English male screenwriters Mountaineering film directors Officers of the Order