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- 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]
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Irwin Allen (born Irwin O. Cohen, June 12, 1916 – November 2, 1991) 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.
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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).
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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.
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DISCOVER--the Irwin Allen pulp sci-fi shows of the 1960s. During the 1960s, and the dry period in cinema SF between the 1950s creature features and the special effects triumphs of 2001, Planet of the Apes, and Star Wars, producer Irwin Allen combined the best of both worlds into 274 episodes of four television series that are as original ...
Nov 3, 1991 · Allen is best known as the benevolent king of disaster movies, which he popularized in the 1970s. Although some critics called his productions childishly entertaining and his characters...
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May 12, 2006 · Commentator John Ridley pays tribute to legendary Hollywood producer Irwin Allen, frequently called the "Master of Disaster." Allen set the standard for large-scale disaster movies. His first...
While science fiction television in the 1960s might be best remembered for Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, the backbone of most of the best TV series of that decade was Irwin Allen. Allen was responsible for Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Land of the Giants.
