
Allan Dwan
Highest Rated: 100% Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Lowest Rated: 67% Getting Gertie's Garter (1945)
Birthday: Apr 03, 1885
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dwan's first job was as a lighting engineer for the Peter Cooper Hewitt Company, where he helped develop a forerunner of the neon tube known as the mercury vapor arc. He became intrigued by "those silly things called movies" while supervising the installation of some arcs at Essanay studios, asked about the stories the filmmakers used, and proceeded to sell them 15 he had written at college. Essanay then offered him a job as scenario editor.
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zaza | Director | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Most Dangerous Man Alive | Director | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Enchanted Island | Director | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | 40% | The River's Edge | Director | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Restless Breed | Director | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hold Back the Night | Director | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Slightly Scarlet | Director | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Tennessee's Partner | Director | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Pearl of the South Pacific | Director | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Escape to Burma | Director | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 48% | Silver Lode | Director | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Passion | Director | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flight Nurse | Director | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | 27% | Cattle Queen of Montana | Director | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sweethearts on Parade |
Director, Producer |
- | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 30% | I Dream of Jeanie | Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Montana Belle | Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 60% | The Woman They Almost Lynched |
Director, Producer |
- | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Belle Le Grand | Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wild Blue Yonder | Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surrender | Director | - | 1950 |
100% | 80% | Sands of Iwo Jima | Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Inside Story |
Director, Producer |
- | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Angel in Exile | Director | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | 73% | Driftwood | Director | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Northwest Outpost | Director | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | 43% | Calendar Girl | Director | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rendezvous With Annie | Director | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | 49% | Brewster's Millions | Director | - | 1945 |
67% | No Score Yet | Getting Gertie's Garter | Director | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Up in Mabel's Room | Director | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Abroad With Two Yanks | Director | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Around the World |
Director, Producer |
- | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Friendly Enemies | Director | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here We Go Again | Director | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Look Who's Laughing |
Director, Producer |
- | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rise and Shine | Director | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sailor's Lady | Director | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trail of the Vigilantes |
Director, Producer |
- | 1940 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Young People | Director | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | 22% | The Gorilla | Director | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | 75% | Frontier Marshal | Director | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | 33% | The Three Musketeers | Director | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Josette | Director | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Suez | Director | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Director | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Woman-Wise | Director | - | 1937 |
100% | 74% | Heidi | Director | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Mile From Heaven | Director | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 15 Maiden Lane | Director | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Human Cargo | Director | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | 67% | High Tension | Director | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Noise | Director | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Navy Wife | Director | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Black Sheep | Director | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Director | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | While Paris Sleeps | Director | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 81% | American Madness | Director | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wicked | Director | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man to Man | Director | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chances | Director | - | 1931 |
100% | 77% | The Iron Mask | Director | - | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tide of Empire | Director | - | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harold Teen | Producer | - | 1928 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | East Side, West Side |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1927 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stage Struck | Director | - | 1925 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Manhandled |
Director, Producer |
- | 1924 |
100% | 72% | Robin Hood | Director | - | 1922 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fighting Odds | Director | - | 1917 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Modern Musketeer |
Director, Writer |
- | 1917 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Habit of Happiness |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1916 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Half-Breed | Director | - | 1916 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Good Bad Man | Director | - | 1916 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Manhattan Madness | Director | - | 1916 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | David Harum | Director | - | 1915 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man's Calling | Director | - | 1912 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Calamity Anne's Ward | Director | - | 1912 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thief's Wife | Director | - | 1912 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mother of the Ranch | Director | - | 1911 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Million Dollars | Director | - | 1911 |
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Screen Directors Playhouse | Director | 1956 |
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