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Irving Allen (born Irving Applebaum, November 24, 1905 – December 17, 1987) was an Austro-Hungarian–born American theatrical and cinematic producer and director. [1] He received an Academy Award in 1948 for producing the short movie Climbing the Matterhorn .
Irving Allen. Producer: Climbing the Matterhorn. Irving Allen started his film career in 1929 as an editor. He turned to directing in the 1940s, and two shorts he directed, Forty Boys and a Song (1941) and Climbing the Matterhorn (1947), won Academy Awards.
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- Austria-Hungary [now Poland]
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- Encino, California, USA
Irwin Allen (born Irwin O. Cohen, June 12, 1916 – November 2, 1991) [1] was an American film and television producer and director, known for his work in science fiction, then later as the "Master of Disaster" for his work in the disaster film genre. [1] His most successful productions were The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering ...
Irving Allen. Producer: Climbing the Matterhorn. Irving Allen started his film career in 1929 as an editor. He turned to directing in the 1940s, and two shorts he directed, Forty Boys and a Song (1941) and Climbing the Matterhorn (1947), won Academy Awards. His feature film output, however, was not particularly successful, and in the 1950s he and producer Albert R. Broccoli formed Warwick ...
- November 24, 1905
- December 17, 1987
Irving Allen was a film producer and director who worked on various genres and countries. He won an Oscar for producing the short \"Climbing the Matterhorn\" and made the Matt Helm series with Albert R. Broccoli.
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Irving Allen was one of the busier, if not always one of the classier, movie producers of the post-World War II era, with a string of successful action-adventure films stretching from the end of the 1940s into the early '70s.
Irving Allen entered film as an editor at Universal, Paramount and Republic in 1929. During the 1940s, Allen directed a number of superb shorts (including the Academy Award-nominated "Forty Boys and a Song" 1941) which often won more acclaim than his low-budget features.
