Irving Allen
Production · Producer · Director · Executive Producer
Born Nov 24, 1905
Active 1941–1987
Irving Allen started his film career in 1929 as an editor. He turned to directing in the 1940s, and two shorts he directed, Forty Boys and a Song (1941) and Climbing the Matterhorn (1947), won Academy Awards.
Filmography
Cromwell (1970) — ProducerThe Long Ships (1964) — ProducerThe Wrecking Crew (1968) — ProducerThe Silencers (1966) — ProducerGenghis Khan (1965) — ProducerThe Bandit Of Zhobe (1959) — ProducerThe Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) — Executive ProducerMurderers' Row (1966) — ProducerInterpol (1957) — ProducerFire Down Below (1957) — ProducerAvalanche (1946) — DirectorApril in Portugal (1956) — ProducerChase of Death (1949) — DirectorThe Red Beret (1953) — ProducerEyewitness (1970) — Executive ProducerThe Ambushers (1967) — ProducerThe Black Knight (1954) — ProducerTank Force! (1958) — ProducerClimbing the Matterhorn (1947) — Director · Producer · WriterSafari (1956) — ProducerThe Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) — ProducerThe Hellions (1961) — DirectorKillers of Kilimanjaro (1959) — ProducerHammerhead (1968) — Producer