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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.
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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- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
- April 3, 1885
- December 28, 1981
May 7, 2024 · Allan Dwan (born April 3, 1885, Toronto, Ontario, Canada—died December 28, 1981, Woodland Hills, California, U.S.) was an American director with more than 400 known feature films and short productions to his credit.
- Michael Barson
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.
Dwan certainly didn’t hesitate to exploit Paget’s voluptuous figure, and on one level the film is a sophisticated version of a cave-man battle between two rivals for a desirable woman. It’s the interplay between Milland and Quinn that generates much of the film’s gripping, prickly energy.
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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 .
