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Irwin Allen
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: June 12, 1916 in New York City, NY Death: November 2, 1991 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA Biography:A one-time journalism student from New York, "Irwin Allen" went on to carve out a unique niche for himself in Hollywood as a maker of big-budget exploitation movies, which often made use of middle-level character stars and major actors in their declining years in vital supporting roles. After breaking into features with serious nature films such as "The Sea Around Us" and "The Animal World", Allen turned to exploitation movies. Most of these were either relatively low budget titles that capitalized on bigger, better mega-hits (his "Big Circus" followed in the wake of DeMille's "The Greatest Show On Earth", and Allen capitalized on both Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" and "Mike Todd"'s "Around The World In Eighty Days" with "Five Weeks In a Balloon" and "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea" respectively). Allen spent most of the 1960's producing a quartet of science-fiction television series... Full Biography
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