Allan King

Allan King

Allan King was born on February 6, 1930, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was a director and producer, known for Dying at Grace (2003), Warrendale (1967) and Avonlea (1990). He was married to Colleen Murphy. He died on June 15, 2009, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

  • Title: Allan King
  • Popularity: 10.643
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1930-02-06
  • Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Allan King Movies

  • 2006
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    Actuality: The Art and Life of Allan King

    Actuality: The Art and Life of Allan King

    1 2006 HD

    "Each of my films is the exploration of a territory that I urgently want to understand", Allan King states in this elegantly structured and...

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  • 1969
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    A Married Couple

    A Married Couple

    6.7 1969 HD

    In this classic exploration of marriage in conflict, Billy and Antoinette Edwards—as well as their son Bogart and dog Merton—live out...

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  • 1967
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    Warrendale

    Warrendale

    7.313 1967 HD

    This ground-breaking cinéma-vérité classic documents five weeks in the lives of twelve residents of a home for emotionally...

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  • 2003
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    Dying at Grace

    Dying at Grace

    7.6 2003 HD

    This film is about the experience of dying. Five terminal patients in a Palliative Care Unit share the last days of their lives and deaths with a...

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  • 1973
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    Come On Children

    Come On Children

    5.8 1973 HD

    Five boys and five girls ages 13 to 19 live on a farm for ten weeks, to be filmed, and to see what might emerge for each of them personally.

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  • 2005
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    Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company

    Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company

    6.9 2005 HD

    At Baycrest, an old-age home in Toronto, we follow a social worker as she talks to residents, particularly Max, Claire, Ida, and Rachel. The film...

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  • 1978
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    One Night Stand

    One Night Stand

    1 1978 HD

    Carol Bolt's adaptation of her stage play locks its audience in a claustrophobic bachelor flat for a night of black comedy, lust and terror. Jilted...

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  • 1978
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    One Night Stand

    One Night Stand

    1 1978 HD

    Carol Bolt's adaptation of her stage play locks its audience in a claustrophobic bachelor flat for a night of black comedy, lust and terror. Jilted...

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  • 2006
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    EMPz 4 Life

    EMPz 4 Life

    1 2006 HD

    Life in the housing projects of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada is documented.

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  • 1956
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    Skid Row

    Skid Row

    1 1956 HD

    A day and night in the life of three alcoholic derelicts: "and the meek shall inherit the earth - six feet of it".

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  • 1960
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    Rickshaw

    Rickshaw

    1 1960 HD

    A father hands his rickshaw driving duties over to his teenage son.

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  • 1989
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    Termini Station

    Termini Station

    4 1989 HD

    Termini Station is a Canadian made drama, released in 1989 and directed by Allan King. The film stars Colleen Dewhurst and Megan Follows as Molly...

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  • 1977
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    Who Has Seen the Wind

    Who Has Seen the Wind

    7.2 1977 HD

    The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald O'Connal,...

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  • 1989
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    Termini Station

    Termini Station

    4 1989 HD

    Termini Station is a Canadian made drama, released in 1989 and directed by Allan King. The film stars Colleen Dewhurst and Megan Follows as Molly...

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  • 2005
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    Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company

    Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company

    6.9 2005 HD

    At Baycrest, an old-age home in Toronto, we follow a social worker as she talks to residents, particularly Max, Claire, Ida, and Rachel. The film...

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  • 1981
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    Silence of the North

    Silence of the North

    4 1981 HD

    Director Allan King's 1981 drama, based on true events, stars Ellen Burstyn as a strong-willed woman struggling to survive with her family in the...

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  • 1988
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    Who's in Charge Here?

    Who's in Charge Here?

    1 1988 HD

    Ronn Lucas special filmed in Canada to a live audience starring Lucas' puppets including Buffalo Billy, Chuck the punk rocker, etc. He also shows the...

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  • 1963
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    The Flying Alberts

    The Flying Alberts

    1 1963 HD

    The Alberts (Bruce Lacey, Tony Gray and his brother Dougie Gray) attempt to take off. There are two edits to this film, both with their distinct...

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  • 1968
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    Who Is Sonny Rollins?

    Who Is Sonny Rollins?

    6 1968 HD

    Portrait of the jazz great during his self-enforced exile from his audience as protest against the war in Vietnam. Filmed playing with students in...

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  • 1999
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    The Dragon's Egg: Making Peace on the Wreckage of the Twentieth Century

    The Dragon's Egg: Making Peace on the Wreckage of the Twentieth Century

    1 1999 HD

    A third of Estonia's people are Russian, most of them put there by Stalin. For Estonians it is like having a dragon's egg laid in your nest: you wait...

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  • 1963
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    Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait

    Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait

    1 1963 HD

    Focusing on the pressures people feel moving from the security and nurture of village life to the isolate chaos of big city life, Joshua: A Nigerian...

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  • 1999
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    The Dragon's Egg: Making Peace on the Wreckage of the Twentieth Century

    The Dragon's Egg: Making Peace on the Wreckage of the Twentieth Century

    1 1999 HD

    A third of Estonia's people are Russian, most of them put there by Stalin. For Estonians it is like having a dragon's egg laid in your nest: you wait...

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  • 1963
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    Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait

    Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait

    1 1963 HD

    Focusing on the pressures people feel moving from the security and nurture of village life to the isolate chaos of big city life, Joshua: A Nigerian...

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  • 2010
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    Orson Welles: The Paris Interview

    Orson Welles: The Paris Interview

    4 2010 HD

    A vintage interview captures the artist reflecting on Citizen Kane and expounding on directing, acting and writing and his desire to bestow a...

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  • 1996
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    Leonardo: A Dream of Flight

    Leonardo: A Dream of Flight

    1 1996 HD

    Leonardo da Vinci finds it difficult to pursue his own dreams while serving as the Duke's court artist, but young Roberto takes risks to convince the...

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  • 1970
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    6.5 1970 HD

    Like his legendary namesake, Kwai Chang Caine is a warrior monk, operating a Shaolin temple in Northern California. After an evil priest, Tan,...

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  • 1970
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    7.733 1970 HD

    This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two...

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  • 1970
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    7.268 1970 HD

    Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them in safety inside the antique store's vault.

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    A young boy's search for his father takes him from 19th century Prussia to the wilds of the American West.

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  • 1970
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    7.255 1970 HD

    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The...

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  • 1970
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    6.556 1970 HD

    Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is a British mystery series that aired on ITV in the United Kingdom under the shorter title 'Marlowe, Private Eye' and on...

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  • 1970
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    10 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    Prematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in their lives and thus change them for the better.

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  • 1970
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    7.2 1970 HD

    The Odyssey is a Canadian-produced half-hour adventure-fantasy television series for children, originally broadcast 1992-94 on CBC Television. It...

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  • 1970
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    7.2 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Lightning Force was a short lived action television starring Matthew Walker, Meat Loaf, George Takei and Guylaine St-Onge. The series premiered in...

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    Ready or Not is a Canadian teen drama series which aired on the Showtime Movie Channel and later on the Disney Channel and Global Television Network...

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  • 1970
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    8.3 1970 HD

    In the fictional small town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, in the early 20th century, 10-year-old Montreal heiress Sara Stanley is sent by her...

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  • 1970
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    7.2 1970 HD

    Danger Bay is a Canadian television series, produced in Vancouver, with first-run episodes broadcast on CBC Television and the Disney Channel...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    For The Record, a series of one-hour and ninety-minute film dramas, started on the series, Performance, as a subseries called Camera ’76. Aired...

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