Irving Allen
Production · Producer · Director · Executive Producer
Born Nov 24, 1905
Active 1941–1987 · Awards: Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel
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