LOS ANGELES — Ken Annakin, a British director whose films included the family-adventure classic “Swiss Family Robinson,” the madcap comedy “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines” and the World War II epic “The Longest Day,” has died. He was 94.

Annakin, who suffered a heart attack and a stroke within a day of each other in February, died Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills, said his daughter, Deborah Annakin Peters.

His five-decade career was launched in England in the early 1940s when he began making wartime documentaries. He made his feature-film directorial debut in 1947 and became what fellow British director Mike Leigh described as a “truly great master of successful, commercial cinema.”

Annakin directed nearly 50 movies, including “Across the Bridge,” “Battle of the Bulge,” “The Biggest Bundle of Them All,” “Paper Tiger,” a 1972 version of “The Call of the Wild,” “The Fifth Musketeer” and “The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking.”

In 1966, Annakin and co-writer Jack Davies shared an Oscar nomination for their original screenplay for “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines,” a comedy depicting a 1910 London-to-Paris airplane race.

On producer Darryl F. Zanuck’s epic 1962 D-Day drama “The Longest Day,” Annakin was one of three credited directors. He directed the British exterior episodes, as well as (uncredited) French episodes and American interior scenes.