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Allen's career in film and TV was the subject of a 1995 documentary, The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen, produced and directed by Kevin Burns, co-founder of Foxstar Productions, originally set up as the production unit responsible for creating a series of Alien Nation movies for television. Numerous cast members and associates from various Irwin Allen projects appeared in the film, lending ...
Irwin Allen(1916-1991) 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. A successful TV series producer (The Time ...
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-- From the opening credits for Irwin Allen’s The Time Tunnel, spoken by Dick Tufeld, best known as the voice of “the Robot” in Lost in Space, with a theme song by John Williams. Seriously, even the credits have star power. They do not make television like they used to.
Nov 2, 1991 · Irwin Allen (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. His most successful productions were The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). He also created and produced the popular 1960s science fiction ...
Lost in Space is a classic sci-fi TV series following the Robinson family, whose spaceship, Jupiter 2, veers off course on a mission to colonize Alpha Centauri. Stranded on an unknown planet, they family face perilous encounters with bizarre creatures as well as the constant threat of Dr. Zachary Smith, a smarmy saboteur onboard.
Irwin Allen. Producer: The Towering Inferno. 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. A successful TV series producer (The Time Tunnel (1966), Lost in Space ...
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This paper focuses on the career of Irwin Allen, a Hollywood producer best known for his many popular 1960s television series like Lost in Space and his early 1970’s disaster films The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974).
