Irwin Allen(1916-1991)
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
A graduate of New York's Columbia School of Journalism, Irwin Allen was
a magazine editor, the producer/director of a radio show and the owner
of an advertising agency before entering film production in the 1950s.
His documentary, The Sea Around Us (1953), won an Academy Award. A successful TV series
producer (The Time Tunnel (1966), Lost in Space (1965)), Allen was nicknamed "The Master of
Disaster" in the 1970s due to the tremendous success of his two special
effects-laden epics, The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974).
