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Allen Swift

1924-01-16 New York City, New York, USA

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Biografia

Ira Stadlen (January 16, 1924 – April 18, 2010 ), known professionally as Allen Swift, was an American voice actor,  known for playing characters including Simon Bar Sinister and Riff-Raff on the Underdog cartoon show. He provided the voices of many of the characters in The Bluffers, most of the voices for the 1960s underwater puppet show Diver Dan, and the voices in Gene Deitch's 1960–1962 group of Tom and Jerry cartoons. Swift was a children's television show host on WPIX in New York City as "Captain Allen". He took his professional name from radio comedian Fred Allen and 18th century satirist Jonathan Swift. Swift was an early television star who hosted The Popeye Show from September 10, 1956 to September 23, 1960, until he was forced to leave the program. The reason for his dismissal from "The Popeye Show" was creative differences with station management.(Info can be found in"The Popeye Show"aticle in The NYC Kids Shows Round Up"section of"TV Party.Com") Swift did the majority of the voices in Rankin/Bass's Mad Monster Party?, credited as Alan (sic) Swift in the movie's credits.  He supplied most of the character voices for the NBC Howdy Doody Show, and when Buffalo Bob Smith, who himself did the voice of the lead puppet character Howdy Doody and had many times proclaimed that "nobody else could do Howdy" suffered a heart attack, Swift took home some recordings over the weekend, came back on Monday and did Howdy's voice for more than a year.(Info can be found in Tv Bloq section of TV Party.Com) Swift also served as the second comedy writer for "Howdy Doody." He took on the job, following the abrupt departure of the series' first comedy writer and songwriter, Edward Kean.(info at "TV Bloq"/Past entry #168 at "TV Party.Com") He also wrote the play Checking Out. Swift was married to actress Lenore Loveman, and is the father of character actor, mimic and singer Lewis J. Stadlen, holistic health practitioner, Maxime Stadlen and psychotherapist, Clare A. Stadlen. He lived in Manhattan. Allen had been "suffering with a series of health calamities for several years, since he fell and broke his hip while walking his dog. From that moment, one thing led to another," said personal friend and director Gene Deitch. "Even though [I've been] here for 50 years, hardly a year went by without a visit to his 57th Street apartment, nor a day go by without e-mail and most recently Skype visits," added Deitch, an American expatriate living in the Czech Republic. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Películas

3-D Rarities Lookout (archive footage) 2015-06-11
Safe Men Sol 1998-08-07
Seize the Day Maurice Venice 1986-09-09
Pinocchio's Christmas Fox (voice) 1980-12-03
A Family Circus Christmas Santa Claus 1979-12-18
The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town Gadzooks / Newsreel announcer / blue engine / Town guard (voice) 1977-04-06
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure Maxi-Fixit (voice) 1977-04-01
The Little Drummer Boy Book II Simeon / Soldiers (voice) 1976-12-13
Where the Wild Things Are Narrator (voice) 1975-10-01
The Mad Magazine TV Special 1974-01-01
'Twas the Night Before Christmas Santa Claus (voice) 1974-12-08
The Red Baron Voice 1972-12-09
The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters Dracula / The Monster / Dr. Jekyll / The Invisible Man (voice) 1972-09-23
Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes Mufty (voice) 1972-02-21
Keep the Cool, Baby Bee / Moth (voice) (uncredited) 1967-11-09
The Blacksheep Blacksmith Voice 1967-01-09
Robin Hoodwinked Sir Blur / Robin Hood 1967-05-31
Mad Monster Party? Felix Flankin / Yetch / Dracula / Invisible Man / Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde / Additional Voices 1967-03-08
A Wedding Knight Sir Blur/King Arthur (voice) 1966-08-08
Geronimo and Son Wickhead/Geronimo/Say-Ah (voice) 1966-12-09
Alice of Wonderland in Paris François / Narrator / King (segment "Many Moons") / Lord High Chamberlain (voice) 1966-02-05
Ocurrido en Hualfín English Narrator (voice) 1965-03-12
How to Avoid Friendship 1964-01-01
Le schiave esistono ancora Narrator 1964-06-27
High Steaks (voice) 1962-03-23
Dicky Moe (voice) 1962-07-20
Tall in the Trap (voice) 1962-09-14
The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit Narrator (voice) 1962-08-01
Anatole Francios (voice) 1962-09-14
Sorry Safari Tom / Jerry (voice) 1962-10-12
Down and Outing Tom Cat / Jerry Mouse / Clint Clobber (voice) 1961-10-25
It's Greek to Me-ow! Tom / Jerry / Clint (voice) 1961-12-06
Gaston’s Mama Lisa Gaston le Crayon 1959-06-01
The Tale of a Dog 1959-02-01
Gaston's Easel Life 1958-10-01
Gaston, Go Home 1958-05-01
Camp Clobber Clint Clobber / General / Mr.Lofy (voice) 1958-07-22
Old Mother Clobber 1958-09-01
Gaston Is Here 1957-01-01
It's a Living (voice) 1957-11-16
Depth Study Economist / Communications Expert / Sociologist / Museum Curator / Wife / Bartender (voice) 1957-01-13
Boo Moon Lookout 1954-01-01
Popeye's 20th Anniversary Audience Members (uncredited) 1954-04-02
Crazytown Father / People saying goodbye / Boxer (uncredited) 1954-02-25
The Seapreme Court Various Fish (uncredited) 1954-01-29