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Date of Birth

9 November 1914, Surrey, England, UK

Date of Death

1 October 2006, Sedona, Arizona, USA

Birth Name

Alan Lyle-Smythe

Mini Biography

Englishman Alan Lyle-Smythe was born in 1914. The future film and TV writer-actor trained as an actor before serving for four years with the Palestine Police in the 1930s. At the outbreak of World War II, he joined the British Army; part of their Intelligence Corps, he operated behind enemy lines in Libya and Tunisia, escaped a firing squad execution and worked with guerrillas in Yugoslavia. ("Alan Caillou" was one of Lyle-Smythe's many wartime aliases; thinking it lucky, he took it in real life.) After the war, he was a police chief in Ethiopia, a district officer in Somalia and the founder of a theatrical company in Africa. Returning to the old prefessions of acting and writing, Caillou worked in Canadian TV in the 1950s and later relocated to Hollywood, where his became a familiar name in the credits of movies and TV series.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Weaver

Spouse

Nadia Caillou	(? - ?)
Aliza	(? - 1 October 2006) (his death) 1 child

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