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Lewis Allen

Lewis Allen

Highest Rated: 100% Suddenly (1954)

Lowest Rated: 67% Desert Fury (1947)

Birthday: Dec 25, 1905

Birthplace: Oakengates, Telford, Shropshire, England, UK

After a career as stage actor and director in England and later the USA, apprenticed at Paramount and directed his first feature film in 1943, the chilling, subdued ghost story, "The Uninvited." Although British, Allen filmed two slices of Americana: "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" (1944), and "Those Endearing Young Charms" (1945) early in his career. He later added an exciting aura of menace to several films noir: "Desert Fury" (1947) and the tautly suspenseful "Suddenly" (1954). Allen spent most of his career after the mid-1950s directing for TV.

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SUDDENLY, director Lewis Allen (left), Frank Sinatra (right), on set, 1954
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Whirlpool Director - 1959
No Score Yet 35% Another Time, Another Place Director,
Producer 		- 1958
No Score Yet 60% Illegal Director - 1955
No Score Yet 25% A Bullet for Joey Director - 1955
100% 63% Suddenly Director - 1954
No Score Yet 60% At Sword's Point Director - 1952
No Score Yet 29% Appointment With Danger Director - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet Valentino Director - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chicago Deadline Director - 1949
No Score Yet 56% So Evil My Love Director - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sealed Verdict Director - 1948
67% 59% Desert Fury Director - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Imperfect Lady Director - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Perfect Marriage Director - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet Those Endearing Young Charms Director - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Unseen Director - 1945
95% 80% The Uninvited Director - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Our Hearts Were Young and Gay Director - 1944

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Little House on the Prairie Director 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bonanza Director 1960-1964 1966-1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cannon Director 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dan August Director 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fugitive Director 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Man Called Shenandoah Director 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Big Valley Director 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Detectives Director 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Perry Mason Director 1958 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Route 66 Director 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Zane Grey Theatre Director 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rifleman Director 1959-1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Turn of Fate Director 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Screen Directors Playhouse Director 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Meet Corliss Archer Director 1954