Ted Allan

编剧, 演员

1916年1月26日 — 1995年6月29日 (79 years)
Alan Herman (January 26, 1916 – June 29, 1995), known professionally as Ted Allan, was a Canadian screenwriter, author, and poet, several of whose books were made into motion pictures. In 1975, he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) and won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film for the film Lies My Father Told Me.

Ted Allan was born in Montreal as Alan Herman.

In 1934 he met and became friends with Norman Bethune. In February 1937 Allan joined Lincoln Battalion of the International Brigades to fight against fascism in Spanish Civil War. At the direction of the Brigade, Ted worked as a reporter — he broadcast to America from Madrid — and worked again with Bethune. In 1939 he published his first novel, This Time a Better Earth, drawing on his experiences in the War.

In 1952, Allan and Sydney Gordon published Bethune's biography, The Scalpel, The Sword. Allan battled for nearly 40 years to make a movie about the Canadian surgeon who became a larger-than-life hero of the Chinese revolution. The film, Bethune: The Making of a Hero, for which Allan wrote the screenplay, was the first official Chinese co-production, shooting in China, Montreal and Spain was released in 1990. It starred Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren.

Allan co-wrote the script for John Cassavetes's celebrated movie Love Streams (released in 1984), which won the Golden Bear Award at Berlin International Film Festival. The film was based on one of Allan's plays, I've Seen You Cut Lemons, which was directed by Sean Connery at the Fortune Theatre in London in 1969.

Allan won the Stephen Leacock Award in 1985 for his novel Love Is a Long Shot.

He died of respiratory failure on June 29, 1995 at the age of 79. He is the subject of the 2002 National Film Board documentary Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the Twentieth Century.

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Plex 上的电影与电视节目

  • The Great Rupert
    The Great Rupert1950
  • 曾经深爱过
    曾经深爱过1980

知名作品

  • 爱的激流
    爱的激流1984
  • 多可爱的战争
    多可爱的战争1969
  • The Great Rupert
    The Great Rupert1950
  • Lies My Father Told Me
    Lies My Father Told Me1975
  • 白求恩:一个英雄的成长
    白求恩:一个英雄的成长1990
  • 曾经深爱过
    曾经深爱过1980
  • 1001 Arabian Nights
    1001 Arabian Nights1959
  • Armchair Theatre
    Armchair Theatre18 seasons

影視作品

1990
1984
Love Streams · as Screenplay
1980
Falling in Love Again · as Screenplay在 Plex
1980
1970
1963
1960
Lies My Father Told Me · as Screenplay
1956