John Allen

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.6561

Gender

Male

Birthday

04-Dec-1944

Age

(82 years old)

Place of Birth

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Also Known As
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John Allen

Biography

John Allen (born December 4, 1944) is an Australian actor. After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1969, he initially established himself in theatre, appearing in some eighteen productions at the prestigious Melbourne Theatre Company. This was followed by a number of appearances with the Old Tote Theatre Company in Sydney, culminating with the opening season of the Sydney Opera House and a tour with the Company to London and the West End. After returning to Australia he continued to play a broad range of roles on stage, but also became known for his performances in film and on television. In an acting career spanning nearly four decades he was associated with many notable productions, but retired from performing in 2000.


Credits

Police State Police State (1989) Character: Ralph Devlin
An account of events in Queensland from 1959 to 1988 as disclosed by the Fitzgerald inquiry. Queensland had become as close to a police state as anything since the convict era. Based on real events.
Vietnam Vietnam (1987) Character: TDT Reporter
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
The Haunting of Hewie Dowker The Haunting of Hewie Dowker (1976) Character: Detective
Hewie Dowker, a New South Wales (Sydney) police officer who becomes aware that he has psychic abilities, which haunt him as he has recurrent visions of a young girl being murdered during a black mass.
The Odd Angry Shot The Odd Angry Shot (1979) Character: Lieut. Golonka
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas (1996) Character: Mr. Paulikowski
The made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the demise of the original series, concerns son Eddie missing his home in Transylvania. Soon the entire family bands together to teach the young boy everything great about the holiday season.
Now and Forever Now and Forever (1983) Character: Martin Harrington
A couple's seemingly "perfect" marriage is shaken when the husband is charged with rape.
The Riddle of the Stinson The Riddle of the Stinson (1988) Character: Claude Smyth
A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins his own search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash.
Grievous Bodily Harm Grievous Bodily Harm (1988) Character: Stansfield
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.



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