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Warren, Allan

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 nameMichael Allan Warren
Michael Allan Warren
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
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Occupation
photographer
memoirist
actor
prose writer
Siteallanwarren.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 photographer’s career can be considered the day Warren’s 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

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    Yves Arden (1972)

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    Lillian Guiche (1973)

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    Bernard Miles (1974)

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    Beryl Reed (1974)

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    Phyllis Calvert (1974)

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    Suzanne Lee (1977)

Notes

  1. ↑ 1 2 3 4 Allan Warren's books on goodreads.com
  2. ↑ 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
  •   Wikimedia Commons has media related to Allan Warren
  •   Wikimedia Commons has media related to Photographs by Allan Warren
Source - https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Warren,_Allan&oldid=93281941


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