Richard Allan

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Richard Mann Allan (born June 22, 1923 in Jacksonville , Illinois , USA , † September 6, 1999 in Prospect , Kentucky ) was an American actor and dancer .

Life

Richard Allan was born in Jacksonville in 1923 to a farmer . He had two brothers and a sister. He took dance lessons at the age of seven.

In 1945 he started his dance career in the Broadway show The Red Mill , with which he later went on tour. After his participation in the musical Naughty Marietta , which premiered in Los Angeles in 1948 , he came to film in the early 1950s. Through the mediation of Betty Grable , whom he met in 1950 while filming Variety-Princess , he finally got a contract with 20th Century Fox . He worked u. a. in Okinawa (1950) and Frogmen (1950) with. However, Allan's appearances were initially so insignificant that his name was often not even mentioned in the opening credits. In With a Song in the Heart , as well as in the Hemingway filming Snow on Kilimanjaro, he was involved as a dancer. The dark-haired actor got a slightly bigger role in Niagara , where he himself died as a lover of Marilyn Monroe while trying to kill her film husband. Although it was touted as a promising new discovery in 1953 in the film magazine Photoplay , this did not receive any response from 20th Century Fox. Allan was still only given small roles. In 1954 he auditioned for the title role in Sinuhe the Egyptians , which then went to Edmund Purdom . He found himself in the film only as an extra.

After he received only insignificant roles in the following years, Allan went to Germany in 1957 , where he a. a. was the dance partner of Caterina Valente in three hit films ( The simple girl and Casino de Paris , And in the evening in La Scala ) . But even here his career did not take the hoped-for upswing. After Käutner's Der Rest ist Schweigen (1959) he returned to the USA and worked as a night club dancer until 1964. Then he worked as a masseur . In the late 1980s he moved to Kentucky, where relatives of his lived. Richard Allan died of lung cancer in Prospect in 1999 at the age of 76 and was buried in Gillham Cemetery, Winchester .

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SURNAME Allan, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allan, Richard Mann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Jacksonville , Illinois , USA
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1999
Place of death Prospect , Kentucky