Irwin Allen

Irwin Allen

出生 : 1916-06-12, New York, New York, U.S.

死亡 : 1991-11-02

略歴

Irwin Allen (June 12, 1916 – November 2, 1991) was an American film and television producer and director, known for his work in science fiction, then later as the "Master of Disaster" for his work in the disaster film genre. His most successful productions were The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). He also created and produced the popular 1960s science fiction television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants. Description above from the Wikipedia article Irwin Allen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Irwin Allen
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ロスト・イン・スペース
Screenplay
時は2058年、高度に発展した文明によって地球環境は破壊されてしまった。ジョン・ロビンソン教授(ウィリアム・ハート)とその家族は、人類生存のための新天地の惑星「アルファ・プライム」を調査する使命を帯び、宇宙へと飛び立った。 しかし、その宇宙船に同乗していたスパイ(ゲイリー・オールドマン)の工作によってナビゲーションシステムを破壊され、一家は宇宙空間で迷子になってしまう。
Outrage!
Producer
After a technicality results in the release of a man being tried for the rape and murder of a young woman, her father murders the man. Admitting his guilt and refusing to use temporary insanity, the father places his attorney in a virtual no-win situation. In an extreme effort, the attorney decides to call the judge who released the murderer originally and to challenge the entire legal system that would permit such a travesty.
The Night The Bridge Fell Down
Producer
A group of random individuals get stranded on a bridge that begins collapsing at both ends. Not only that, but there's a gun-wielding bank robber using the bridge as his means of escape refusing to let any of the rescuers draw near the survivors. Time is running out ...
Terror at Alcatraz
Executive Producer
Tom and Dick Smothers play Bones Howard and Ryan Fitzgerald, a TV cameraman and intrepid reporter, respectively, involved in the race to find the buried treasure of Al Capone on Alcatraz Island at the former prison where he was imprisoned.
Aliens From Another Planet
Writer
A senator is sent to inspect a project that can send people into the future or past & decide if it is feasible to continue. One of the scientists working on it, decides to go through it anyway... This is a compilation of three episodes of the 1960's TV series, "The Time Tunnel".
Aliens From Another Planet
Director
A senator is sent to inspect a project that can send people into the future or past & decide if it is feasible to continue. One of the scientists working on it, decides to go through it anyway... This is a compilation of three episodes of the 1960's TV series, "The Time Tunnel".
The Memory of Eva Ryker
Producer
A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the circumstances of the mother's death 30 years prior, it triggers a new rash of emotional turmoil for the young woman and uncovers a heinous crime.
Cave-In!
Producer
A party of tourists -- including a state senator, a park ranger who was her one-time lover, a cantankerous professor, and an escaped convict -- are trapped deep inside the caverns of an unnamed national park, rescued briefly, and then caught in a second cave-in. This Irwin Allen mini-disaster film made in 1979 was shelved for a number of TV seasons, as was his "The Night the Bridge Fell Down", made back-to-back with this one by the same director and much of the same crew.
When Time Ran Out...
Producer
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
ポセイドン・アドベンチャー2
Producer
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.
ポセイドン・アドベンチャー2
Director
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.
Hanging by a Thread
Producer
A group of old friends on an outing re-live various traumas and tragedies via flashback whilst trapped high above a ravine in a disabled cable-car.
The Swarm
Producer
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
The Swarm
Director
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
Viva Knievel!
Supervising Producer
The legendary stuntman plans his most incredible stunt yet while battling the mob in this action-adventure.
Flood!
Producer
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
Fire!
Producer
The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name cast and enough blazing special effects to turn night into day. Involved are a lumber mill owner (Ernest Borgnine), the widowed operator of a forest lodge (Vera Miles), a teacher on a class outing (Donna Mills), a country doctor (Lloyd Nolan), a couple (Patty Duke Astin and Alex Cord) whose shaky marriage is healed when battling the blaze brings out their better natures, and escaping convicts (Neville Brand and Erik Estrada) who use the conflagration to cover their tracks. Like Allen’s crowd-pleasers The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Fire sizzles with suspense and excitement. Turn up the heat!
Time Travelers
Producer
When a novel virus devastates the world in 1976, Dr. Earnshaw notices that it resembles a virus that a Dr. Henderson found a cure for in 1871 Chicago. However, the doctor perished and his notes were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire. Earnshaw is approached by a government agent, Jeffrey Adams, who informs him of a Top Secret time traveling technology and asks for his assistance in finding Dr. Henderson and his cure. But their adventure becomes a race against time when a glitch sends them back to the day before the fire instead of the planned four days.
The Swiss Family Robinson
Producer
A family shipwrecked on a deserted island tries to survive the best way they can. All is going well until a gang of pirates arrives on the island looking for a hidden treasure.
Adventures of the Queen
Producer
A madman hijacks the luxury cruise liner, S.S. Queen, and threatens to blow it up unless a millionaire pays him the the contents of a safe deposit box. The crew regains control of the ship, but the hijacker dies, taking the codes to disarm the bomb with him.
タワーリング・インフェルノ
Producer
地上135階、シスコにそびえ立つ超高層ビル“グラス・タワー”落成式の日。規格外の製品を使ったために起きた出火はやがて巨大な炎となり、最上階に何百人も閉じ込めたままビルを飲み込む。
ポセイドン・アドベンチャー
Producer
NYからギリシャのアテネに向かっていた豪華客船ポセイドン号が、海底地震による大津波に飲まれて転覆。その惨状とともに生き残った船客の脱出劇を描いた、ロナルド・ニーム監督による傑作パニック巨編。
City Beneath the Sea
Producer
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. government wants to stash all its gold reserves from Fort Knox there, along with a fantastic new radioactive element. The brother of Pacifica's returning former commander plans to steal the gold and on top of that, the city faces destruction by an asteroid from outer space!
City Beneath the Sea
Story
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. government wants to stash all its gold reserves from Fort Knox there, along with a fantastic new radioactive element. The brother of Pacifica's returning former commander plans to steal the gold and on top of that, the city faces destruction by an asteroid from outer space!
City Beneath the Sea
Director
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. government wants to stash all its gold reserves from Fort Knox there, along with a fantastic new radioactive element. The brother of Pacifica's returning former commander plans to steal the gold and on top of that, the city faces destruction by an asteroid from outer space!
Lost in Space - No Place to Hide
Director
The Robinsons, Earth's first family of outer space, head to colonize Alpha Centauri in their flying saucer, the Gemini 12, but crash land on an uncharted planet where they deal with its challenges and dangers.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Screenplay
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Director
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Story
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Producer
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Screenplay
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Director
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
The Lost World
Producer
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
The Lost World
Screenplay
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
The Lost World
Director
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
The Big Circus
Story
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
The Big Circus
Screenplay
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
The Big Circus
Producer
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
The Story of Mankind
Director
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
The Story of Mankind
Producer
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
The Story of Mankind
Associate Producer
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
The Story of Mankind
Writer
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
The Animal World
Writer
A documentary showcasing the world's many different animal species, both past and present.
The Animal World
Producer
A documentary showcasing the world's many different animal species, both past and present.
The Animal World
Director
A documentary showcasing the world's many different animal species, both past and present.
Dangerous Mission
Producer
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
The Sea Around Us
Producer
Irwin Allen explores the mysteries of the deep blue sea in this Technicolor documentary. Based on Rachel L. Carson's famous study, this Oscar winning project investigates everything under the sea, from sharks, whales and octopuses to microscopical creatures and their coexistence in this vast underwater world.
The Sea Around Us
Writer
Irwin Allen explores the mysteries of the deep blue sea in this Technicolor documentary. Based on Rachel L. Carson's famous study, this Oscar winning project investigates everything under the sea, from sharks, whales and octopuses to microscopical creatures and their coexistence in this vast underwater world.
The Sea Around Us
Director
Irwin Allen explores the mysteries of the deep blue sea in this Technicolor documentary. Based on Rachel L. Carson's famous study, this Oscar winning project investigates everything under the sea, from sharks, whales and octopuses to microscopical creatures and their coexistence in this vast underwater world.
Where Danger Lives
Associate Producer
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.