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Lewis Allen
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Director Born: December 25, 1905 in Shropshire, England, UK Death: May 3, 2000 in Santa Monica, CA Biography:Upon leaving England's Tettenhall College, Lewis Allen spent several years as a London stage actor and director. During the early years of World War II, Allen moved to Hollywood, where he apprenticed at Paramount Pictures. His maiden directorial effort at Paramount was "The Uninvited" (1943), one of the best and most plausible ghost stories ever to emerge from an American studio. Few of his subsequent projects came up to the standard set by "Uninvited" (the 1945 sequel "The Unseen" was particularly disappointing), though he had a measure of luck guiding such heavily plotted melodramas as "Desert Fury" (1947), "Chicago Deadline" (1949) and "Appointment with Danger" (1951). Free-lancing in the early 1950s, Allen was saddled with the disastrous Columbia biopic "Valentino" (1951). He recovered sufficiently from this potential career-killer to direct the tautly paced assassination thriller "Suddenly"... Full Biography
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