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Allan Dwan

Born 3 April 1885 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as Joseph Aloysius Dwan.
Died 28 December 1981 in Woodland Hills, California, USA, of a heart attack.

Married actress Pauline Bush, 1915; divorced, 1921.

Allan Dwan worked as lighting engineer at Peter Cooper-Hewitt company. He began in the film industry as a lighting technician at Essanay. He soon became lighting technician and scenario editor for American Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, eventually being promoted to director in 1911. Among the work Dwan did, he not only acted and directed, he wrote and produced films in the silent era.

Dwan continued to direct films into the early 1960s.

References: Website-IMDb.