Elizabeth Allan

Known for Acting

4/9/1910

Skegness, Lincolnshire, England, UK

Biography

Elizabeth Allan (9 April 1910 – 27 July 1990) was an English stage, screen, and television actress, who worked in both England and Hollywood.

Known For (46 credits)

6.3

Movie

The Big Parade of Comedy

1964

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

6.1

Movie

Grip of the Strangler

1958

A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.

5.5

Movie

The Brain Machine

1955

A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.

Movie

Front Page Story

1954

A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....

6.6

Movie

The Heart of the Matter

1953

Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.

6.0

Movie

Twice Upon a Time

1953

A pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are both sent to the same Summer camp, and while there they start to hatch a plot to get back together.

6.7

Movie

Folly to Be Wise

1952

A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.

6.9

Movie

No Highway in the Sky

1951

James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.

6.5

Movie

That Dangerous Age

1949

The lonely wife of a workaholic husband on the magical Isle of Capri meets a charming and attractive young man. An exciting affair must end when word gets back to the husband and he becomes ill. In hopes of avoiding a scene, she passes her beau along to her stepdaughter, Monica.

8.2

Movie

He Snoops to Conquer

1944

George Gribble is tea-boy at Tangleton town council, he gets ravelled up in the councillors money-grubbing machinations concerning compiling and then cooking the results of a government sponsored housing survey.

7.2

Movie

Went the Day Well?

1942

The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.

6.5

Movie

The Great Mr Handel

1942

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.