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Robert (Tex) Allen is a Actor and Animation American born on 28 march 1906 at Mount Vernon (USA)

Robert (Tex) Allen

Robert (Tex) Allen
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Birth name Irvine E. Theodore Baehr
Nationality USA
Birth 28 march 1906 at Mount Vernon (USA)
Death 9 october 1998 (at 92 years) at Oyster Bay (USA)

Robert "Tex" Allen was a leading actor in both feature films and B-movie westerns between 1935 and 1944.

Born as Irvine E. Theodore Baehr on March 28, 1906, in Mount Vernon, New York, Allen went on to graduate from the New York Military Academy in 1924, where he rode in the academy cavalry and from Dartmouth College in 1929 with a degree in English. In vacations he had driven a truck as a labourer. He worked for a bank which soon failed in the Great Depression. He flew briefly with the Curtis Flying service as a commercial pilot. He first came to the screen in 1926 before signing a standard acting contract with Paramount Pictures, in 1929. He appeared in the famous Marx Brothers movie Animal Crackers and several other small parts. Then, he signed with Columbia Pictures in 1935. He also later contracted with 20th Century Fox.

Allen's first notable role was the male lead in Love Me Forever (1935), for which he won a Box Office Award.

After the departure of cowboy star Ken Maynard, Allen was plugged into producer Larry Darmour's formulaic Ranger pictures. Along with sidekick Wally Wales (played by Hal Taliaferro), he redefined the role, starring in six films for director Spencer Gordon Bennet in that year alone. These films became known as the Bob Allen Ranger series. However, the studio was looking for a singing cowboy to compete with Gene Autry and Allen was eventually replaced by Roy Rogers. He appeared in two dozen films after that, however.

He had acted on Broadway in the original productions of Show Boat and Kiss Them for Me. In 1956 he appeared in the original production of Auntie Mame, opposite Rosalind Russell, and later Greer Garson. He appeared in other Broadway plays, in touring productions, in soap operas, documentaries and commercials. He became a real estate broker in 1964 but returned to the stage from time to time, including an appearance as J.B. Biggley in the 1972 Equity Library Theatre revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

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Love Me Forever (1935)
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Filmography of Robert (Tex) Allen (39 films)

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Things
Things (1989)
, 1h23
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Amber Lynn, Robert (Tex) Allen
Rating34% 1.728711.728711.728711.728711.72871
A husband whose fanatical desire but inability to father children is driven to force his wife to undergo a dangerous experiment. This results in hatching a non-human life form in his wife's womb, and the birth of a multitude of "things."
Raiders of the Living Dead, 1h26
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Scott Schwartz, Zita Johann, Robert (Tex) Allen
Roles Dr. Carstairs
Rating26% 1.30521.30521.30521.30521.3052
In an abandoned prison, a doctor has revived executed convicts as the living dead. Teenager Scott Schwartz (A Christmas Story, The Toy) creates a weapon from a laserdisc player's laser and pursues the walking dead, aided by his girlfriend and grandfather (western star Robert Allen). A reporter (Robert Deveau) on the trail of the story is helped by the town librarian, played in her final film role by Zita Johann (Boris Karloff's The Mummy, The Sin of Nora Moran). On the prison island, the zombies attack a security guard and tear him apart as the reporter and teenager venture into the prison caverns for a final showdown.
Naked Evil
Naked Evil (1966)
, 1h25
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Actors Anthony Ainley, Basil Dignam, Suzanne Neve, Richard Coleman, Olaf Pooley, Lawrence Tierney
Roles Doctor (U.S. version) (as Bob Allen)
Rating56% 2.8243452.8243452.8243452.8243452.824345
City of Chance, 56minutes
Directed by Ricardo Cortez
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Lynn Bari, C. Aubrey Smith, Donald Woods, Amanda Duff, June Gale, Richard Lane
Roles Fred Walcott
Rating63% 3.1962953.1962953.1962953.1962953.196295
Tail Spin
Tail Spin (1939)
, 1h24
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Nancy Kelly, Joan Davis, Charles Farrell, Jane Wyman
Roles Charlie
Rating60% 3.001363.001363.001363.001363.00136
Trixie Lee (Alice Faye) takes a leave of absence from her job as a Hollywood hat-check girl to pursue her career as an aviatrix. She and partner Babe Dugan (Joan Davis) enter an air race from Los Angeles to Cleveland, but an oil leak causes their aircraft to crash.
Kentucky
Kentucky (1938)
, 1h35
Directed by David Butler, Otto Brower
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Children's films, Horse sports in film
Actors Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Douglass Dumbrille, Moroni Olsen, Edmund Mortimer
Roles Man Dancing with Sally (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.1447053.1447053.1447053.1447053.144705
During the Civil War, Thad Goodwin (Charles Waldron) of Elmtree Farm, a local horse breeder resists Capt. John Dillon (Douglass Dumbrille) and a company of Union soldiers confiscating his prize horses. He is killed by Dillon and his youngest son Peter (Bobs Watson) cries at the soldiers riding away with the horses.
Penitentiary, 1h19
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Prison films
Actors Walter Connolly, John Howard, Jean Parker, Robert Barrat, Marc Lawrence, Arthur Hohl
Roles Doctor
Rating62% 3.114633.114633.114633.114633.11463
William Jordan (Howard) is befriended by the man who sent him to prison on a manslaughter charge, former DA now prison warden Matthews (Connolly). In order to give Jordan the opportunity to rehabilitate himself Matthews allows him to work as chauffeur to his daughter Elizabeth (Parker), though he's a bit uncomfortable when Elizabeth falls in love with the young convict. All of this extra effort goes out the window when Jordan, adhering to the "criminal code" of never snitching on a fellow con, allows himself to be implicated in the murder of another convict. Jordan is saved from the death penalty by a last-minute confession of his hard-bitten but honorable cellmate.
The Awful Truth, 1h31
Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Molly Lamont
Roles Frank Randall
Rating76% 3.846433.846433.846433.846433.84643
Jerry Warriner (Cary Grant) returns home from a trip, which he falsely says was to Florida, to find that his wife, Lucy (Irene Dunne), is not at home. When she returns in the company of her handsome music teacher, Armand Duvalle (Alexander D'Arcy), Jerry learns that Lucy spent the night in the country with Armand, after his car, they claim, broke down unexpectedly. Lucy then discovers that Jerry did not actually go to Florida, though he went so far as to get an artificial tan and write multiple fake letters home to convince her that he did. Mutual suspicions result in divorce.