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Allan Dwan (born Joseph Aloysius Dwan; April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.
Jun 19, 2011 · Allan Dwan's engineering background was useful in solving early technical problems and he is credited with inventing the dolly shot (using a car) in 1915. In 1917 he set up one of the most famous shots in all of silent film, the camera swooping down and taking in all of the huge Babylonian set in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance .
Dec 23, 1981 · Allan Dwan, who during his half-century career directed such stars as Gloria Swanson, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Shirley Temple and John Wayne, died of heart failure Monday at the Motion Picture...
Alan Dwan wrote the screenplay for Headin’ South starring the Douglas Fairbanks. Glass slide scan from the Northernstars Collection. Dwan’s best work spans about 15 years starting in 1916. During this period he directed many of the Douglas Fairbanks features. Two of the most memorable being Robin Hood and The Iron Mask.
Hold Back the Night: Directed by Allan Dwan. With John Payne, Mona Freeman, Peter Graves, Chuck Connors. A Marine officer tells his squad the story behind a bottle of liquor that he always keeps with him but never drinks from.
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Allan Dwan was born on 3 April 1885 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a director and writer, known for Bound in Morocco (1918), A Perfect Crime (1921) and Panthea (1917). He was married to Marie Shelton and Pauline Bush. He died on 28 December 1981 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Jun 5, 2013 · Dwan’s films offer a distinctively thick cross-section of society, bringing all strata, from grandees to grifters, together in his stories and in his turbulent, overflowing images.
