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Todd Allen - Actor, Writer & Producer
Actor-writer-producer Todd Allen has
appeared in over 50 film and television productions. Among the more notable are three films with Director Lawrence
Kasdan, SILVERADO, GRAND CANYON, and WYATT EARP. He has also appeared in several films with Academy Award winner
Kevin Costner. Allen also co-starred with Robert Duvall in his Academy Award-nominated, THE APOSTLE, and again more
recently in the Emmy Award winning AMC original mini-series, BROKEN TRAIL, where he received excellent reviews for the role
of “Marshal Bill Miller.” Allen has just completed filming the lead role in the independent feature, AMERICAN
CARTEL, playing a Texas Ranger who brings down a dangerous drug cartel. Recent television appearances include CLAIRE, a movie
for the Hallmark Channel, and guest-starring appearances on MONK, CSI, and NCIS. Previously, he had leading roles in
the television movies, “The Soul Collector”, “Night Visitors”, “Tall Dark and Deadly”
and others. A personal favorite came early in his career when he played jet ace Chuck Yeager in the CBS three-hour
special presentation of “Pancho Barnes”.
Allen is partnered with Kevin Costner and Tig
Productions on an epic mini-series of early Texas entitled NOT BETWEEN BROTHERS, which details the collision of cultures that
occurred to form early Texas. Based on the Novel by David Marion Wilkinson. He is the writer of several well-regarded
screenplays including a co-writing credit on “THE EMPTY QUARTER,” based on the novel by David Marion Wilkinson. A
timely story of the clash of cultures, and a man’s search for his true self, set on a high-pressure drilling rig in
Saudi Arabia’s Rub Al Khali desert, the bleak Empty Quarter. Two he plans to direct are, THE DESERTERS, a gritty,
film-noir western based on the Luke Short novel, and SUICIDE GRIP, a love story set against the exciting and dangerous backdrop
of the World Rodeo Finals in Las Vegas. A requested speaker at film and writer’s conferences, Allen was previously
the Keynote speaker at the Ozark Creative Writers Conference. He was instrumental in the formation Texas’ first
Film Incentive Initiative, and has been an advisor to the Austin Film Festival. He maintains residences in Los Angeles
and Austin and is a devoted Texas Longhorn fan.
He is the writer of several well-regarded screenplays
including a co-writing credit on “THE EMPTY QUARTER,” based on the novel by David Marion Wilkinson. A timely
story of the clash of cultures, and a man’s search for his true self, set on a high-pressure drilling rig in Saudi Arabia’s
Rub Al Khali desert, the bleak Empty Quarter. Two he plans to direct are, THE DESERTERS, a gritty, film-noir western
based on the Luke Short novel, and SUICIDE GRIP, a love story set against the exciting and dangerous backdrop of the World
Rodeo Finals in Las Vegas. A requested speaker at film and writer’s conferences, Allen was previously the Keynote
speaker at the Ozark Creative Writers Conference. He was instrumental in the formation Texas’ first Film Incentive
Initiative, and has been an advisor to the Austin Film Festival. He maintains residences in Los Angeles and Austin
and is a devoted Texas Longhorn fan.
Film Reel - Todd Allen (Click on picture below to
view reel)
With Robert Duvall in the AMC original, Broken Trail.
Todd Allen - Official Website
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