Allan Dwan (April 3, 1885 - December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his family moved to the United States when he was eleven years of age. At university, he trained as an engineer and began working for a lighting company in Chicago. Wikipedia
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 283-291. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. Interviewed in Peter Bogdanovich's "Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dw www.imdb.com/name/nm0245385/
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