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