Allan Warren ( born Allan Warren ; 1948, London) is an English portrait photographer , writer and memoirist and actor in film and television. He was best known for his portraits of representatives of high society.
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| Birth name | Michael Allan Warren Michael Allan Warren |
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| Occupation | photographer memoirist actor prose writer |
| Site | allanwarren.com |
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Biography
Michael Allan Warren was born on October 26, 1948 in the London Wimbledon area. He grew up with his mother, without a father. He studied at the theater school at the famous Drury Lane Theater . While still a teenager he played several episodic roles, talked with a lot of people, including made acquaintance with the future popular singer and guitarist Mark Bolan , and became his first manager when Bolan became famous.
Warren took up photography at the age of 17. During this time, he played in a production of Forty Years On with famous actor John Gilgood ; Warren bought his first used camera and began taking pictures of the actors who played with him in this performance. The start of a professional photographerβs career can be considered the day Warrenβs friend, , asked him to be a photographer at his wedding with Judy Garland (March 15, 1969). After that, Warren came to grips with photography, abandoning the theater. He has a track record of more than a thousand photographs of famous actors, musicians, writers, politicians and members of the British royal family . In the early 1980s, Warren set himself the goal of obtaining permission to photograph all the British dukes: four belonging to the royal family, and twenty-six not belonging to her.
Together with the Duke he founded a charity fund for children in need.
Selected Filmography
- Wide screen
- 1968 - Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush - Joe McGregor
- 1970 - / Toomorrow - student-musician (uncredited)
- 1971 - / To Catch a Spy - waiter (uncredited)
- 1973 - / Baxter! - photographer (uncredited)
- 1979 - / Porridge - Wally
- A television
- 1970 - / Play for Today - Jenkins (in 1 episode)
- 1971 - / The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes - Syudhead Boy (1 episode)
Bibliography
- Nobs & Nosh - Eating with the Beautiful People (1975)
- Confessions of a Society Photographer (1976) [1]
- The Dukes of Britain (1986)
- The Lady of Phillimore Walk (play, 1991) [2]
- Dukes, Queens and Other Stories (1999) [1]
- Strangers in the Buff (2007)
- Carpet Dwellers (2007)
- Nein Camp (2012) [1]
- Stand By To Repel All Boarders (2014) [1]
Examples of photo works
Yves Arden (1972)
Lillian Guiche (1973)
Bernard Miles (1974)
Beryl Reed (1974)
Phyllis Calvert (1974)
Suzanne Lee (1977)
Notes
- β 1 2 3 4 Allan Warren's books on goodreads.com
- β Scottish Theater Archive - Event Details on special.lib.gla.ac.uk
Links
- Official website
- A selection of articles in tabloids about Allan Warren (English) (French) (Spanish) (German) (Italian) (port.) (Chinese) on the site mediamass.net
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