Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan; May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956) was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically pointed radio program The Fred Allen Show (1932–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio.
His best-remembered gag was his long-running mock feud with friend and fellow comedian Jack Benny, but it was only part of his appeal; radio historian John Dunning (in On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio) wrote that Allen was radio's most admired comedian and most frequently censored. A master ad libber, Allen often tangled with his network's executives (and often barbed them on the air over the battles) while developing routines whose style and substance influenced fellow comic talents, including Groucho Marx, Stan Freberg, Henry Morgan and Johnny Carson; his avowed fans also included President Franklin D. Roosevelt and novelists William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and Herman Wouk (who began his career writing for Allen).
Fred Allen (1942 – December 6, 2007) was a Canadian set designer, art director and artist from Stewiacke, Nova Scotia.
Born in Halifax, Allen never knew his birth mother, but was adopted and raised by Gwendolyn Poole of Wolfville, Nova Scotia until Poole's death when Allen was 11, after which he was raised by Poole's daughter in Stewiacke, Nova Scotia.
Frederick Esmond "Fred" Allen (born July 28, 1935 in Carshalton, Surrey) is a former English cricketer who played for Durham County Cricket Club. Having made his recorded Minor Counties Championship debut in 1960, he played one further match before taking a break from 1962, in which he played no Minor Counties matches, to 1965. A top order batsman, he made his name as a number 3 batsman and occasional off spin bowler.
Durham were only awarded first-class status in 1991. Prior to this they played as a "Minor County" against several of the first-class counties' Second XI. Allen's greatest bowling performance was in his third Minor County match, against Warwickshire Second XI taking seven wickets for 53 runs. This was not enough to win the match, as Durham were unable to match Warwickshire's 223, losing the match by an innings and 23 runs. Allen was a regular in the side from 1965–1968 and made his sole List A appearance in 1968, playing in the first round of the Gillette Cup, scoring two runs before being bowled out by seven-time Test cricketer Len Coldwell, in his penultimate year before retiring from first-class cricket.
Sir Frederick "Fred" Richard AllenKNZMOBE (9 February 1920– 28 April 2012) was a captain and coach of the All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby union team. The All Blacks won all 14 of the test matches they played under his coaching.
Personal life
Allen was born in Oamaru, New Zealand. He was educated in Christchurch (though he did not attend secondary school), and played for the Linwood club. After captaining the Canterbury Colts in 1938, he was selected for Canterbury in 1939. During World War II Allen served as a lieutenant in the 27th and 30th Battalions in the Pacific and Italy. He played for service teams including the 2nd NZEF "Kiwis" Army team that toured Britain following the war.
Career
When he returned to New Zealand he settled in Auckland as a women's clothing manufacturer. He played for Auckland Grammar Old Boys 1946–48, and was selected for the All Blacks in 1946. In 1949 he was selected as captain of the All Blacks for the 1949 tour to South Africa. Although each test match was very close, the All Blacks lost the series 4–0. Allen retired from playing after the series.
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published: 11 Dec 2020
Fred Allen crashes Jack Benny's show! (Roxy Theater, NYC 1947)
Future WML panelist Fred Allen crashes the stage of Jack's 1947 live show at the Roxy Theater in NYC to demand. . . a ticket refund! This precious footage comes from "The Great Radio Comedians", a fantastic PBS documentary that I've just posted to the recently launched Vintage Comedy Vault channel.
Featuring rare video of legendary vintage comedians (focusing mainly on Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, and the Marx Brothers), the original Vintage Comedy Vault was my first channel on YouTube, unceremoniously deleted due to a series of outrageous copyright strikes in 2015. Some videos I'll be posting were previously on the original VCV channel, but there's quite a lot that will be brand new. Please consider subscribing to the new channel, and if you like what you see, please remember, too, to u...
published: 31 Mar 2018
Jude Law reading Fred Allen's letter to the State of New York Insurance Dept.
Jude Law reads Fred Allen's 1932 letter to the State of New York Insurance Department.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894, it was during the Golden Age of Radio in the 1930s that American comedian and radio host Fred Allen became a household name. His success on the airwaves is undisputed, as at the peak of its gag-filled, 17-year run, The Fred Allen Show boasted upwards of 30 million listeners. But it wasn’t until a decade after his death, upon publication of a collection of his greatest letters, that the public learnt of Allen’s devotion to this altogether more private form of communication, one which allowed him to practice his comedy in front of an audience of one. Arguably his most amusing letter was a complaint, written in 1932, most probably never sent, and addressed to the ...
published: 21 Mar 2021
1953-04-19 The Jack Benny Program "Fred Allen Show" Season 3 Episode 7
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published: 26 Sep 2014
Fred Allen and Groucho Trade Ad Libs! (1952) [AUDIO]
There are very few recorded examples of Groucho and Fred Allen performing together in any capacity. Here's 8 minutes of audio of Groucho shooting the breeze with Fred Allen 100% spontaneously after the recording of Fred's pilot for "Two for the Money" (a show which ultimately ended up hosted by Herb Shriner). How many times do you get to hear a recording of two of the greatest ad lib comedians in history casually chatting without a script in front of a studio audience? Beyond the great laughs in this clip, it's quite apparent how deep their mutual respect and admiration was.
I have no idea what the circumstances were behind this recording ever being made, let alone preserved and circulated among collectors, but we're very lucky that this exists. I actually think Fred Allen comes out a ...
published: 31 Aug 2017
FRED ALLEN interviews Titus Moody (1947) [SHORT CLIP]
26 precious seconds of footage of Fred Allen doing his radio show (or at least, reenacting his radio show for the camera). The other fellow, of course, is Parker Fennelly, playing Titus Moody.
Footage like this is pretty scarce. I stumbled on this in a 1947 short film called "Behind Your Radio Dial: The Story of NBC", thanks to the Internet Archive.
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published: 21 Apr 2018
What's My Line - A sad & heartfelt goodbye to Fred Allen | BUZZR
Fred Allen died suddenly in 1956, he passed on a Saturday night What's My Line was live on Sunday evenings. It was Portland Hoffa, Allen's wife request that the show go on as Fred would have preferred it that way...
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Future WML panelist Fred Allen crashes the stage of Jack's 1947 live show at the Roxy Theater in NYC to demand. . . a ticket refund! This precious footage come...
Future WML panelist Fred Allen crashes the stage of Jack's 1947 live show at the Roxy Theater in NYC to demand. . . a ticket refund! This precious footage comes from "The Great Radio Comedians", a fantastic PBS documentary that I've just posted to the recently launched Vintage Comedy Vault channel.
Featuring rare video of legendary vintage comedians (focusing mainly on Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, and the Marx Brothers), the original Vintage Comedy Vault was my first channel on YouTube, unceremoniously deleted due to a series of outrageous copyright strikes in 2015. Some videos I'll be posting were previously on the original VCV channel, but there's quite a lot that will be brand new. Please consider subscribing to the new channel, and if you like what you see, please remember, too, to upvote the videos and leave comments-- it really helps!
Click here for the complete "The Great Radio Comedians" documentary (in very good video quality!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF2X67F02BE
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Future WML panelist Fred Allen crashes the stage of Jack's 1947 live show at the Roxy Theater in NYC to demand. . . a ticket refund! This precious footage comes from "The Great Radio Comedians", a fantastic PBS documentary that I've just posted to the recently launched Vintage Comedy Vault channel.
Featuring rare video of legendary vintage comedians (focusing mainly on Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, and the Marx Brothers), the original Vintage Comedy Vault was my first channel on YouTube, unceremoniously deleted due to a series of outrageous copyright strikes in 2015. Some videos I'll be posting were previously on the original VCV channel, but there's quite a lot that will be brand new. Please consider subscribing to the new channel, and if you like what you see, please remember, too, to upvote the videos and leave comments-- it really helps!
Click here for the complete "The Great Radio Comedians" documentary (in very good video quality!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF2X67F02BE
Click here to subscribe to the Vintage Comedy Vault channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0vELv3yQAVpRCu7mFyDHTw?sub_confirmation=1
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Jude Law reads Fred Allen's 1932 letter to the State of New York Insurance Department.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894, it was during the Golden Age ...
Jude Law reads Fred Allen's 1932 letter to the State of New York Insurance Department.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894, it was during the Golden Age of Radio in the 1930s that American comedian and radio host Fred Allen became a household name. His success on the airwaves is undisputed, as at the peak of its gag-filled, 17-year run, The Fred Allen Show boasted upwards of 30 million listeners. But it wasn’t until a decade after his death, upon publication of a collection of his greatest letters, that the public learnt of Allen’s devotion to this altogether more private form of communication, one which allowed him to practice his comedy in front of an audience of one. Arguably his most amusing letter was a complaint, written in 1932, most probably never sent, and addressed to the State of New York Insurance Department.
Originally performed at the Freemason's Hall, London in March 2016.
Jude Law reads Fred Allen's 1932 letter to the State of New York Insurance Department.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894, it was during the Golden Age of Radio in the 1930s that American comedian and radio host Fred Allen became a household name. His success on the airwaves is undisputed, as at the peak of its gag-filled, 17-year run, The Fred Allen Show boasted upwards of 30 million listeners. But it wasn’t until a decade after his death, upon publication of a collection of his greatest letters, that the public learnt of Allen’s devotion to this altogether more private form of communication, one which allowed him to practice his comedy in front of an audience of one. Arguably his most amusing letter was a complaint, written in 1932, most probably never sent, and addressed to the State of New York Insurance Department.
Originally performed at the Freemason's Hall, London in March 2016.
There are very few recorded examples of Groucho and Fred Allen performing together in any capacity. Here's 8 minutes of audio of Groucho shooting the breeze wi...
There are very few recorded examples of Groucho and Fred Allen performing together in any capacity. Here's 8 minutes of audio of Groucho shooting the breeze with Fred Allen 100% spontaneously after the recording of Fred's pilot for "Two for the Money" (a show which ultimately ended up hosted by Herb Shriner). How many times do you get to hear a recording of two of the greatest ad lib comedians in history casually chatting without a script in front of a studio audience? Beyond the great laughs in this clip, it's quite apparent how deep their mutual respect and admiration was.
I have no idea what the circumstances were behind this recording ever being made, let alone preserved and circulated among collectors, but we're very lucky that this exists. I actually think Fred Allen comes out a bit ahead of Groucho in this exchange, but it's really too close to call.
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There are very few recorded examples of Groucho and Fred Allen performing together in any capacity. Here's 8 minutes of audio of Groucho shooting the breeze with Fred Allen 100% spontaneously after the recording of Fred's pilot for "Two for the Money" (a show which ultimately ended up hosted by Herb Shriner). How many times do you get to hear a recording of two of the greatest ad lib comedians in history casually chatting without a script in front of a studio audience? Beyond the great laughs in this clip, it's quite apparent how deep their mutual respect and admiration was.
I have no idea what the circumstances were behind this recording ever being made, let alone preserved and circulated among collectors, but we're very lucky that this exists. I actually think Fred Allen comes out a bit ahead of Groucho in this exchange, but it's really too close to call.
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26 precious seconds of footage of Fred Allen doing his radio show (or at least, reenacting his radio show for the camera). The other fellow, of course, is Parke...
26 precious seconds of footage of Fred Allen doing his radio show (or at least, reenacting his radio show for the camera). The other fellow, of course, is Parker Fennelly, playing Titus Moody.
Footage like this is pretty scarce. I stumbled on this in a 1947 short film called "Behind Your Radio Dial: The Story of NBC", thanks to the Internet Archive.
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26 precious seconds of footage of Fred Allen doing his radio show (or at least, reenacting his radio show for the camera). The other fellow, of course, is Parker Fennelly, playing Titus Moody.
Footage like this is pretty scarce. I stumbled on this in a 1947 short film called "Behind Your Radio Dial: The Story of NBC", thanks to the Internet Archive.
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Fred Allen died suddenly in 1956, he passed on a Saturday night What's My Line was live on Sunday evenings. It was Portland Hoffa, Allen's wife request that the...
Fred Allen died suddenly in 1956, he passed on a Saturday night What's My Line was live on Sunday evenings. It was Portland Hoffa, Allen's wife request that the show go on as Fred would have preferred it that way...
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Future WML panelist Fred Allen crashes the stage of Jack's 1947 live show at the Roxy Theater in NYC to demand. . . a ticket refund! This precious footage comes from "The Great Radio Comedians", a fantastic PBS documentary that I've just posted to the recently launched Vintage Comedy Vault channel.
Featuring rare video of legendary vintage comedians (focusing mainly on Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, and the Marx Brothers), the original Vintage Comedy Vault was my first channel on YouTube, unceremoniously deleted due to a series of outrageous copyright strikes in 2015. Some videos I'll be posting were previously on the original VCV channel, but there's quite a lot that will be brand new. Please consider subscribing to the new channel, and if you like what you see, please remember, too, to upvote the videos and leave comments-- it really helps!
Click here for the complete "The Great Radio Comedians" documentary (in very good video quality!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF2X67F02BE
Click here to subscribe to the Vintage Comedy Vault channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0vELv3yQAVpRCu7mFyDHTw?sub_confirmation=1
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Jude Law reads Fred Allen's 1932 letter to the State of New York Insurance Department.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894, it was during the Golden Age of Radio in the 1930s that American comedian and radio host Fred Allen became a household name. His success on the airwaves is undisputed, as at the peak of its gag-filled, 17-year run, The Fred Allen Show boasted upwards of 30 million listeners. But it wasn’t until a decade after his death, upon publication of a collection of his greatest letters, that the public learnt of Allen’s devotion to this altogether more private form of communication, one which allowed him to practice his comedy in front of an audience of one. Arguably his most amusing letter was a complaint, written in 1932, most probably never sent, and addressed to the State of New York Insurance Department.
Originally performed at the Freemason's Hall, London in March 2016.
There are very few recorded examples of Groucho and Fred Allen performing together in any capacity. Here's 8 minutes of audio of Groucho shooting the breeze with Fred Allen 100% spontaneously after the recording of Fred's pilot for "Two for the Money" (a show which ultimately ended up hosted by Herb Shriner). How many times do you get to hear a recording of two of the greatest ad lib comedians in history casually chatting without a script in front of a studio audience? Beyond the great laughs in this clip, it's quite apparent how deep their mutual respect and admiration was.
I have no idea what the circumstances were behind this recording ever being made, let alone preserved and circulated among collectors, but we're very lucky that this exists. I actually think Fred Allen comes out a bit ahead of Groucho in this exchange, but it's really too close to call.
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26 precious seconds of footage of Fred Allen doing his radio show (or at least, reenacting his radio show for the camera). The other fellow, of course, is Parker Fennelly, playing Titus Moody.
Footage like this is pretty scarce. I stumbled on this in a 1947 short film called "Behind Your Radio Dial: The Story of NBC", thanks to the Internet Archive.
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Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan; May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956) was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically pointed radio program The Fred Allen Show (1932–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio.
His best-remembered gag was his long-running mock feud with friend and fellow comedian Jack Benny, but it was only part of his appeal; radio historian John Dunning (in On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio) wrote that Allen was radio's most admired comedian and most frequently censored. A master ad libber, Allen often tangled with his network's executives (and often barbed them on the air over the battles) while developing routines whose style and substance influenced fellow comic talents, including Groucho Marx, Stan Freberg, Henry Morgan and Johnny Carson; his avowed fans also included President Franklin D. Roosevelt and novelists William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and Herman Wouk (who began his career writing for Allen).
Davis Jr. will have a parole hearing in May ... Bret A ... His institution number is R152594 and he's an inmate at the AllenCorrectional Institution. McVay was involved in the beating and drowning of 84-year-old Fred Koman in 1988 along with Daniel Fyffe Jr.