Robert Allen

Robert Allen

Robert "Tex" Allen (also credited as Bob 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 (1935), for which he won a Box Office Award. He gained additional notice as the star of When You're in Love (1936), opposite Grace Moore. The same year, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in the title role in the film The Life of Lafayette. After the departure of cowboy star Ken Maynard, Allen was plugged into producer Larry Darmour's formulaic Ranger pictures. Along with sidekick Wally Wales (played by Hal Taliaferro), 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. He had acted on Broadway in the original productions of Show Boat and Kiss Them for Me. In 1956 he appeared in the original production of Auntie Mame, opposite Rosalind Russell, and later Greer Garson. He appeared in other Broadway plays, in touring productions, in soap operas, documentaries and commercials. He became a real estate broker in 1964 but returned to the stage from time to time, including an appearance as J.B. Biggley in the 1972 Equity Library Theatre revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert (Tex) Allen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title : Robert Allen
  • Popularity : 2.183
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1906-03-28
  • Place of Birth : Mount Vernon, New York, USA
  • Homepage :
  • Also Known As : Bob Allen, Robert Allen, Robert (Tex) Allen, Irvine E. Theodore Baehr
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Robert Allen Movies

  • 1935
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    The Black Room

    The Black Room

    6.4 1935 HD

    In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the...

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  • 1937
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    The Awful Truth

    The Awful Truth

    7.2 1937 HD

    Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

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  • 1936
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    The Unknown Ranger

    The Unknown Ranger

    1 1936 HD

    Bob Allen in his starring debut gets a job on Wright's ranch where he hopes to find the rustlers no one else has been able to locate. Everyone is...

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  • 1936
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    Rio Grande Ranger

    Rio Grande Ranger

    1 1936 HD

    Sayres and his outlaw gang operate out of a town just across the border and out of the jurisdiction of the Texas Rangers. Ranger Bob Allen is sent...

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  • 1935
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    Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment

    6.471 1935 HD

    A man is haunted by a murder he's committed.

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  • 1940
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    City of Chance

    City of Chance

    5.2 1940 HD

    Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

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    Raiders of the Living Dead

    Raiders of the Living Dead

    3.5 1986 HD

    In an abandoned prison, a doctor has revived executed convicts as the living dead. Teenager, Jonathan creates a laser gun from a videodisc player and...

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  • 1935
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    White Lies

    White Lies

    6 1935 HD

    A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is...

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  • 1935
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    Air Hawks

    Air Hawks

    5.5 1935 HD

    A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.

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    Guard That Girl

    Guard That Girl

    4 1935 HD

    Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' detective agency, to protect Estelle Hudson, a...

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  • 1935
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    Party Wire

    Party Wire

    8 1935 HD

    When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.

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  • 1935
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    Love Me Forever

    Love Me Forever

    4.75 1935 HD

    A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.

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  • 1938
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    Gateway

    Gateway

    6.5 1938 HD

    Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...

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  • 1937
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    Law of the Ranger

    Law of the Ranger

    1 1937 HD

    Working undercover, Rangers Bob and Wally arrive to take up ranching. Out to stop them is Bill Nash and his men. When Bob plans to file on a ranch,...

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  • 1939
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    Tail Spin

    Tail Spin

    5.8 1939 HD

    Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to...

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  • 1936
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    Craig's Wife

    Craig's Wife

    6.3 1936 HD

    Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult...

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  • 1939
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    Everybody's Baby

    Everybody's Baby

    1 1939 HD

    The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

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  • 1935
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    Death Flies East

    Death Flies East

    5 1935 HD

    Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row...

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  • 1935
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    Fighting Shadows

    Fighting Shadows

    6 1935 HD

    Mountie Tim O'Hara is sent to Indian River to investigate a fur trading racket. But he quickly finds himself in trouble when he is accused of...

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  • 1937
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    Ranger Courage

    Ranger Courage

    1 1937 HD

    The Harper wagon train is carrying money and Bull and his gang are after it. When their first attack is foiled by the rangers, Allen trails them. But...

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  • 1935
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    Law Beyond the Range

    Law Beyond the Range

    1 1935 HD

    Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When newspaper editor Alexander dies, Tim takes over...

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  • 1939
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    Fighting Thoroughbreds

    Fighting Thoroughbreds

    1 1939 HD

    A prize-winning stallion breeds off-guard with a mare owned by his rival. The colt is trained to race from birth, eventually running in the Kentucky...

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  • 1937
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    The Rangers Step In

    The Rangers Step In

    1 1937 HD

    Tom Martin wants to buy the Jed Warren ranch as he knows the railroad wants it for the right-of-way, but Jed refuses to sell...

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  • 1935
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    The Revenge Rider

    The Revenge Rider

    1 1935 HD

    Cowboy Tim McCoy becomes an instrument of revenge when he discovers his parents have been killed.

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  • 1937
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    Reckless Ranger

    Reckless Ranger

    1 1937 HD

    When Jim Allen is lynched, his identical twin brother Bob, a Texas Ranger, takes his place in an attempt to flush out the man responsible.

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  • 1938
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    Kentucky

    Kentucky

    5.7 1938 HD

    Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

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  • 1938
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    Meet the Girls

    Meet the Girls

    4.5 1938 HD

    Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.

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  • 1939
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    Winter Carnival

    Winter Carnival

    6 1939 HD

    A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.

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  • 1935
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    I'll Love You Always

    I'll Love You Always

    3 1935 HD

    Nora Clegg, an actress, marries Carl Brent, an unemployed young engineer, whose estimation of his worth and ability keeps him from getting a job. He...

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  • 1939
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    Winner Take All

    Winner Take All

    1 1939 HD

    When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him; but a reporter arranges for a real boxer to put him...

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  • 1934
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    Jealousy

    Jealousy

    4.7 1934 HD

    Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during...

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  • 1938
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    Keep Smiling

    Keep Smiling

    1 1938 HD

    Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.

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  • 1934
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    Girl in Danger

    Girl in Danger

    1 1934 HD

    Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

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  • 1931
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    The Reckless Hour

    The Reckless Hour

    7 1931 HD

    Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a...

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  • 1931
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    Night Nurse

    Night Nurse

    6.7 1931 HD

    Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small...

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  • 1934
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    The Captain Hates the Sea

    The Captain Hates the Sea

    6.5 1934 HD

    Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are...

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  • 1937
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    Hold 'Em Navy

    Hold 'Em Navy

    3 1937 HD

    Two football players fight over the same girl.

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  • 1933
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    Racetrack

    Racetrack

    1 1933 HD

    Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted inwardly. He becomes fond of a homeless waif,...

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  • 1934
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    Social Register

    Social Register

    4.5 1934 HD

    Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss....

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  • 1930
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    Animal Crackers

    Animal Crackers

    6.903 1930 HD

    The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of...

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  • 1926
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    The Quarterback

    The Quarterback

    6 1926 HD

    Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University....

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  • 1931
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    Big Business Girl

    Big Business Girl

    5.5 1931 HD

    A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.

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  • 1931
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    Party Husband

    Party Husband

    5 1931 HD

    Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring...

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  • 1934
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    Menace

    Menace

    6.5 1934 HD

    A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's death.

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  • 1937
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    Let's Get Married

    Let's Get Married

    5 1937 HD

    Let's Get Married is a 1937 American comedy film starring Ida Lupino, who plays the daughter of a political consultant, Joe Quinn. From Wikipedia

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  • 1964
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    Pie in the Sky

    Pie in the Sky

    1 1964 HD

    Rural runaway finds himself in Manhattan.

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  • 1945
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    Thrill of a Romance

    Thrill of a Romance

    6.2 1945 HD

    A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.

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  • 1952
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    Omnibus

    Omnibus

    6 1952 HD

    Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.

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  • 1958
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    Naked City

    Naked City

    5.3 1958 HD

    Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1951
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    Tales of Tomorrow

    Tales of Tomorrow

    6 1951 HD

    Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered...

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