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Elizabeth Allan is a Actor and Director British born on 9 april 1910 at Skegness (United-kingdom)

Elizabeth Allan

Elizabeth Allan
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 9 april 1910 at Skegness (United-kingdom)
Death 27 july 1990 (at 80 years) at Hove (United-kingdom)

Elizabeth Allan (9 April 1910 – 27 July 1990) was an English actress who worked in both Britain and Hollywood, making about 50 films over more than a quarter century.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Elizabeth Allan (47 films)

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Actress

Grip of the Strangler
Grip of the Strangler (1958)
, 1h20
Directed by Robert Day
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan, Anthony Dawson, Antonio Margheriti, Vera Day
Roles Barbara Rankin
Rating61% 3.0974653.0974653.0974653.0974653.097465
In Victorian London, Edward Styles is accused of being the notorious Haymarket Strangler, the brutal killer of five women. Twenty years after he is tried and executed for these crimes James Rankin (Karloff), a novelist and social reformer, launches an investigation to prove that Styles is innocent. His search for clues leads him first to the sleazy Judas Hole music hall, where the Strangler picked his victims from the resident can-can dancers and loose women, and then to the prison cemetery of Newgate where Styles was buried - in order to exhume his body. When the killings start again, Rankin's theory seems to be vindicated. However his growing obsession with the case signals a most unwelcome revelation as to the true identity of the murderer.
Front Page Story
Front Page Story (1954)

Directed by Gordon Parry
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Allan, Eva Bartok, Derek Farr, Michael Goodliffe, Martin Miller
Roles Susan Grant
Rating66% 3.3303153.3303153.3303153.3303153.330315
Grant is a hard working Fleet Street newspaper editor who refuses to take a long planned holiday with his wife Susan. Instead, to her annoyance, he stays in his office to deal with a number of urgent stories. These include four children evicted from their home when their mother dies, a woman charged with euthanasia, and a drunken ex-reporter tracking down an atomic scientist. They all culminate in the story of a plane crash, in which Grant is shocked to find his wife listed as one of the passengers. He discovers Susan was leaving him and going away with one of his colleagues.
No Highway
No Highway (1951)
, 1h38
Directed by Henry Koster
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Children's films, Disaster films
Actors James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Bessie Love, Elizabeth Allan
Roles Shirley Scott
Rating70% 3.5468753.5468753.5468753.5468753.546875
Theodore Honey (James Stewart), an eccentric "boffin" with the Royal Aircraft Establishment, is working on solving a difficult aviation crash problem. A widower with a 12 year old daughter, Elspeth (Janette Scott), Honey is sent from Farnborough to investigate the crash of a Rutland Reindeer airliner in Labrador, Canada. He theorizes the accident happened because of the tailplane's structural failure, caused by sudden metal fatigue after 1440 flight hours. To test the theory in his laboratory, a rear airframe is being vibrated at a very high rate in daily eight-hour cycles.
That Dangerous Age
That Dangerous Age (1949)

Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Myrna Loy, Roger Livesey, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene, Elizabeth Allan, Jean Cadell
Roles Lady Sybil
Rating63% 3.1873053.1873053.1873053.1873053.187305
A lady on the Isle of Capri, neglected by a husband who works too much, strikes up a romance with another man.
He Snoops to Conquer
He Snoops to Conquer (1944)
, 1h43
Directed by Marcel Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors George Formby, Elizabeth Allen, Elizabeth Allan, Aubrey Mallalieu, Gordon McLeod, Katie Johnson
Roles Jane Strawbridge
Rating63% 3.1846853.1846853.1846853.1846853.184685
The film is set in immediate post-war Britain. After being ordered to do a piece on town planning two newspapermen randomly pick on the small, industrial town of Tangleton. After arriving at the town hall the only man they can find working is the odd job man, George Gribble, who gives them a guided tour of the town. However, they run a negative angle on the story highlighting the fact that the wealthy leader of the council, Mr Oxbold, lives in a giant house by himself while Gribble is one of fourteen staying in a tiny slum house. When they read the article, the town's leaders order Gribble to do an public opinion investigation around the town. Instead of doing a cross section as ordered, he interviews the entire town's population. The results he produces shock the town's complacent leaders, who discover the people are deeply unhappy with the status quo and wants radical changes in living conditions and other services. This is a blow to the council leader and his colleagues who all have financial interests in keeping the town as it is. Oxbold is a slum landlord who fears a Whitehall scheme to demolish much of the existing town and rebuild it with council houses. To avert this, Oxbold and his colleagues decide to send off to London only those limited number of forms which praise the current situation. Gribble is ordered to burn the rest but, not wishing to waste paper, he puts them out for salvage instead.
Went the Day Well?
Went the Day Well? (1942)
, 1h32
Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Mervyn Johns, Basil Sydney, C.V. France, Marie Lohr
Roles Peggy
Rating74% 3.7446853.7446853.7446853.7446853.744685
The story is told in flashback by a villager, played by Mervyn Johns, as though to a person visiting after the war. He recounts: one Saturday during the Second World War, a group of seemingly authentic British soldiers arrive in the small, fictitious English village of Bramley End. It is the Whitsun weekend so life is even quieter than usual and there is almost no traffic of any kind. At first they are welcomed by the villagers, until doubts begin to grow about their true purpose and identity. After they are revealed to be German soldiers intended to form the vanguard of an invasion of Britain, they round up the residents and hold them captive in the local church. The vicar is shot after sounding the church bell in alarm.
Saloon Bar
Saloon Bar (1940)
, 1h39
Directed by Walter Forde
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan, Aubrey Dexter, Mervyn Johns, Anna Konstam, Judy Campbell
Roles Queenie
Rating68% 3.430463.430463.430463.430463.43046
An amateur detective tries to clear an innocent man of a crime before the date of his execution.
Dangerous Medicine
Dangerous Medicine (1938)
, 1h12
Directed by Arthur B. Woods
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Elizabeth Allan, Cyril Ritchard, Edmund Breon, Aubrey Mallalieu, Basil Gill, Leo Genn
Roles Victoria Ainswell

Secretary Victoria Ainswell (Allan) marries her wealthy elderly boss. Soon after the wedding he dies suddenly in suspicious circumstances, and the autopsy reveals that the police have a murderer on their hands. Everything points to Victoria as the only person with means, opportunity and motive, and as she can provide no sensible explanation as to who else could have killed her husband, she is arrested and put on trial for murder.