Swiss Family Robinson News

Tickets are still on sale for the City of Huntsville's annual Summer Film Festival set to begin this Friday at the Old Town Theatre.

KEN Annakin, the British-born film director whose Hollywood credits included the star-studded World War II epics Battle of the Bulge and The Longest Day , as well as the family classic Swiss Family Robinson , has died at his home in Los Angeles.

The Rev. Timothy Wright , the Grammy-nominated gospel singer and composer known for his up-tempo praise songs and powerful mass choir sound, died Thursday at the Bronx Veterans Hospital.

Legendary British director KEN ANNAKIN has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94.

I was sitting with Danno on Thursday evening at John Papadakis' tin-ceiling Taverna thinking that this was a quintessential San Pedro event.

Ken Annakin, the British-born director whose credits included the World War II epics 'Battle of the Bulge' and 'The Longest Day' and the family classic 'Swiss Family Robinson,' has died. He was 94.

Annakin died Wednesday night at his Beverly Hills home, said his daughter, Deborah Peters. His health had been failing since he had a heart attack and stroke within a day of each other in February, she said.

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, his daughter said.

In a bamboo jungle near his Mountain Brook home, Jack Throp reflects on his lifelong love for animals.