Robert (Tex) Allen
Actor, Film actor
1906 – 1998
Who was Robert (Tex) Allen?
Robert "Tex" Allen was a leading actor in both feature films and B-movie westerns between 1935 and 1944.
Born as Irvine E. Theodore Baehr on March 28, 1906, in Mount Vernon, New York, Allen went on to graduate from the New York Military Academy in 1924, where he rode in the academy cavalry and from Dartmouth College in 1929 with a degree in English. In vacations he had driven a truck as a labourer. He worked for a bank which soon failed in the Great Depression. He flew briefly with the Curtis Flying service as a commercial pilot. He first came to the screen in 1926 before signing a standard acting contract with Paramount Pictures, in 1929. He appeared in the famous Marx Brothers movie Animal Crackers and several other small parts. Then, he signed with Columbia Pictures in 1935. He also later contracted with 20th Century Fox.
Allen's first notable role was the male lead in Love Me Forever, for which he won a Box Office Award.
After the departure of cowboy star Ken Maynard, Allen was plugged into producer Larry Darmour's formulaic Ranger pictures. Along with sidekick Wally Wales, he redefined the role, starring in six films for director Spencer Gordon Bennet in that year alone. These films became known as the Bob Allen Ranger series. However, the studio was looking for a singing cowboy to compete with Gene Autry and Allen was eventually replaced by Roy Rogers. He appeared in two dozen films after that, however.
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- Born
- Mar 28, 1906
Mount Vernon - Also known as
- Robert "Tex" Allen
- Bob Allen
- Irvine E. Theodore Baehr
- Tex
- Robert Allen
- Spouses
- Evelyn Peirce
(1934 - 1960/08/09) - Frances Cookman
(1964 - )
- Evelyn Peirce
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Dartmouth College
- New York Military Academy
- Died
- Oct 9, 1998
Town of Oyster Bay
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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