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Allan Dwan(1885-1981)

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  • Writer
  • Producer
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Allan Dwan
Allan Dwan was born on 3 April 1885 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a director and writer, known for A Perfect Crime (1921), Bound in Morocco (1918) and The Forbidden Thing (1920). He was previously married to Marie Shelton and Pauline Bush. He died on 28 December 1981 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
BornApril 3, 1885
DiedDecember 28, 1981(96)
BornApril 3, 1885
DiedDecember 28, 1981(96)
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Allan Dwan, Helen Jerome Eddy, and James Kirkwood in The Forbidden Thing (1920)
Allan Dwan
Allan Dwan
H. Lyman Broening, Allan Dwan, Fuller Mellish, and Florence Reed in The Dancing Girl (1915)
Allan Dwan and Murdock MacQuarrie in Richelieu (1914)
Lew Cody, Allan Dwan, Hope Hampton, Conrad Nagel, and Nita Naldi in Lawful Larceny (1923)
Gloria Swanson, Allan Dwan, Rene Hubert, FATHER TAKES A WIFE, RKO, 1941, **I.V.
Clive Brook, Allan Dwan, Lilyan Tashman, H.B. Warner, and Lois Wilson in French Dressing (1927)
Clive Brook, Allan Dwan, Lilyan Tashman, H.B. Warner, and Lois Wilson in French Dressing (1927)
Allan Dwan in The Forbidden Thing (1920)
Allan Dwan and Helen Jerome Eddy in The Forbidden Thing (1920)

Known for

Monte Blue and Jacqueline Logan in A Perfect Crime (1921)
A Perfect Crime
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  • Director
  • 1921
Glass Slide, app 3" x 4"
Bound in Morocco
  • Director
  • 1918
Helen Jerome Eddy in The Forbidden Thing (1920)
The Forbidden Thing
  • Director
  • 1920
Norma Talmadge in Panthea (1917)
Panthea
  • Director
  • 1917

Credits

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Director

  • Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961)
    Most Dangerous Man Alive
  • Dana Andrews and Jane Powell in Enchanted Island (1958)
    Enchanted Island
  • Anne Bancroft and Scott Brady in The Restless Breed (1957)
    The Restless Breed
  • The River's Edge (1957)
    The River's Edge
  • Screen Directors Playhouse (1955)
    Screen Directors Playhouse
  • Hold Back the Night (1956)
    Hold Back the Night
  • Arlene Dahl, Rhonda Fleming, and John Payne in Slightly Scarlet (1956)
    Slightly Scarlet
  • Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Coleen Gray, and John Payne in Tennessee's Partner (1955)
    Tennessee's Partner
  • Pearl of the South Pacific (1955)
    Pearl of the South Pacific
  • Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Ryan in Escape to Burma (1955)
    Escape to Burma
  • Ronald Reagan and Barbara Stanwyck in Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
    Cattle Queen of Montana
  • Raymond Burr, Lon Chaney Jr., Yvonne De Carlo, and Cornel Wilde in Passion (1954)
    Passion
  • Silver Lode (1954)
    Silver Lode
  • Joan Leslie and Forrest Tucker in Flight Nurse (1953)
    Flight Nurse
  • Eileen Christy, Ray Middleton, and Lucille Norman in Sweethearts on Parade (1953)
    Sweethearts on Parade

Writer

  • Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Coleen Gray, and John Payne in Tennessee's Partner (1955)
    Tennessee's Partner
    • (uncredited)
  • Marsha Hunt, Gene Lockhart, and William Lundigan in The Inside Story (1948)
    The Inside Story
    • (uncredited)
  • Jerome Cowan, Marie McDonald, J. Carrol Naish, Dennis O'Keefe, and Barry Sullivan in Getting Gertie's Garter (1945)
    Getting Gertie's Garter
  • Tom Brown and Edmund Lowe in Black Sheep (1935)
    Black Sheep
  • I Spy (1934)
    I Spy
  • Douglas Fairbanks and Marguerite De La Motte in The Iron Mask (1929)
    The Iron Mask
    • (uncredited)
  • Chester Conklin and Alice White in The Big Noise (1928)
    The Big Noise
    • (uncredited)
  • George O'Brien and Virginia Valli in East Side, West Side (1927)
    East Side, West Side
  • Hope Hampton in Fifty-Fifty (1925)
    Fifty-Fifty
  • Robin Hood (1922)
    Robin Hood
    • (uncredited)
  • The Sin of Martha Queed (1921)
    The Sin of Martha Queed
  • Monte Blue, Mary Jane Irving, and Mary Thurman in A Broken Doll (1921)
    A Broken Doll
  • Monte Blue and Jacqueline Logan in A Perfect Crime (1921)
    A Perfect Crime
  • Helen Jerome Eddy in The Forbidden Thing (1920)
    The Forbidden Thing
  • Ernest Butterworth Jr., James Kirkwood, Buddy Messinger, Gertrude Messinger, and Anna Q. Nilsson in The Luck of the Irish (1920)
    The Luck of the Irish

Producer

  • Eileen Christy, Ray Middleton, and Lucille Norman in Sweethearts on Parade (1953)
    Sweethearts on Parade
  • John Lund and Audrey Totter in Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
    Woman They Almost Lynched
  • Walter Brennan, John Carroll, and Vera Ralston in Surrender (1950)
    Surrender
  • John Carroll and Adele Mara in Angel in Exile (1948)
    Angel in Exile
    • (uncredited)
  • Marsha Hunt, Gene Lockhart, and William Lundigan in The Inside Story (1948)
    The Inside Story
  • Natalie Wood, Walter Brennan, Charlotte Greenwood, Dean Jagger, and Ruth Warrick in Driftwood (1947)
    Driftwood
  • Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey in Northwest Outpost (1947)
    Northwest Outpost
  • Jane Frazee and William Marshall in Calendar Girl (1947)
    Calendar Girl
  • Rendezvous with Annie (1946)
    Rendezvous with Annie
  • Mischa Auer, Georgia Carroll, Joan Davis, Kay Kyser, and Marcy McGuire in Around the World (1943)
    Around the World
  • Edgar Bergen, Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Harold Peary, Ginny Simms, Charlie McCarthy, and Mortimer Snerd in Here We Go Again (1942)
    Here We Go Again
  • Edgar Bergen, Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, and Charlie McCarthy in Look Who's Laughing (1941)
    Look Who's Laughing
  • Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine, Peggy Moran, and Franchot Tone in Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)
    Trail of the Vigilantes
    • (uncredited)
  • What a Widow! (1930)
    What a Widow!
  • Kenneth MacKenna and Lenore Ulric in South Sea Rose (1929)
    South Sea Rose

Personal details

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    • April 3, 1885
    • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • December 28, 1981
    • Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA(heart failure)
    • Marie SheltonAugust 16, 1927 - March 13, 1949 (her death)
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    • 2 Print Biographies
    • 29 Articles

Did you know

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    His extraordinarily long career lasted from 1911-61. During that time he worked under contract at the following studios: Universal (1913-14), Paramount (1917-18, 1923-26), Fox (1926-27, 1929, 1931-32, 1935-40, 1957), United Artists (1944-45), Republic (1949-54) and RKO (1954-55).
  • Quotes
    If you get your head up above the mob, they try to knock it off. If you stay down, you last forever.

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