Everything about Irwin Allen totally explained
Irwin Allen (
June 12,
1916 –
November 2,
1991) was a television and film producer nicknamed "The Master of Disaster" for his work in the
disaster film genre. He was also notable for creating a number of memorable and popular television series.
Allen was born in
New York City. In
1952, he won an
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for
The Sea Around Us, which was based on
Rachel Carson's best-selling book of the same name. Carson was so disappointed with Allen's final version of the script that she never again sold film rights to her work.
Allen's film credits include the
3-D film Dangerous Mission (1954),
The Animal World (
1956), the critically-panned
The Story of Mankind (
1957),
The Big Circus (
1959),
The Lost World (
1960),
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (
1961), which later became the basis of his TV series of the same name, and
Five Weeks in a Balloon (
1962).
In the 1960s Allen moved into television as a producer and was responsible for series such as:
In the 1970s Allen returned to cinema screens and was the most popular name associated with the decade's fad for the
disaster film genre. Allen produced the hugely successful
The Poseidon Adventure (
1972) and
The Towering Inferno (
1974), which he also co-directed. He directed-produced
The Swarm (
1978), and produced/directed
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (
1979) and
When Time Ran Out (
1980).
In the late 1970s/1980s Allen sporadically returned to tv with mini-series like
The Return of Captain Nemo/The Amazing Captain Nemo (
1978) and a star-studded version of
Alice in Wonderland (1985). He was planning on making a star studded musical version of
Pinocchio, but a decline in health caused an early retirement in 1986 after his last film made.
Irwin died from a
heart attack in 1991 at the age of 75.
In popular culture
Killdozer's 1989 song "Man vs. Nature" referred to Allen, calling him "the Master of Realism." The song's three verses mention three prominent disaster films of the 1970s, including The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake (which has nothing to do with Allen, in spite of the song's misattribution), and The Towering Inferno.
The "Irwin Allen rock-and-roll" is when the camera is rocked as the on-screen cast rushes from side to side on the set, simulating a ship being tossed around. It is employed in almost every episode of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea".
Allen received the third ever Worst Career Achievement Golden Raspberry Award in 1985.
The "Irwin Allen con" featured in Ocean's Thirteen is to manipulate the mark using the threat of a large natural disaster.
On January 3rd 2008 BBC Four showed a night of Allen's work which included a 1995 documentary called "The Fantasy Worlds Of Irwin Allen"(External Link
) along with episodes of Lost In Space, Land of the Giants and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea(External Link)Further Information
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