Richard Allan (actor)

Richard Mann Allan was born on June 22, 1923, in Jacksonville, Illinois, as the youngest child and son of the four children of Edna Mann (1893–1973), a dietitian, and Robert Howard Allan (1895–1958), a farmer.{{Cite book |last=Lamparski |first=Richard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_sFkAAAAMAAJ |title=Whatever Became Of-- ? All New Eleventh Series: 100 Profiles of the Most-asked-about Movie, TV, and Media Personalities, Hundreds of Never-before-published Facts, Dates, Etc. on Celebrities, 227 Then-and-now Photographs |date=1989 |publisher=Crown Publishers |isbn=978-0-517-57150-7 |language=en}} He had two brothers, Edward and Robert Howard Allan Jr. (1922–2009), and a sister, Catherine Allan. Allan attended dancing class from the age of seven.

Allan was homosexual.{{Cite book |last=Moore |first=Les |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7LyAwAAQBAJ |title=Leave Your Mark: A Memoir |date=2014-07-02 |publisher=FriesenPress |isbn=978-1-4602-4111-0 |language=en}}

Allan appeared in films, such as The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) and Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952).{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZEtU7Ws17TQC |title=Motion Picture Story Magazine |date=1953 |publisher=Macfadden-Bartell. |page=13 |language=en}} His most remembered appearance was as Susan Hayward's dancing partner in Walter Lang's musical directed With a Song in My Heart (1952) and as Marilyn Monroe's lover Patrick in Henry Hathaway's noir directed Niagara (1953).{{Cite book |last=Green |first=Stanley |author-link=Stanley Green (historian)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XD2xNKSN3E8C |title=Hollywood Musicals Year by Year |date=1999 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=978-0-634-00765-1 |page=168 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbFOAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Richard+Allan%22+actor&pg=PA23&article_id=6122,6410654 |title=Toledo Blade |publisher=Toledo Blade |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Vitacco-Robles |first=Gary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ADGEAAAQBAJ&dq=Richard+Allan+actor&pg=PT72 |title=Icon: What Killed Marilyn Monroe, Volume Two |publisher=BearManor Media |language=en}} In the late 1950s Allan played in various German productions.

Allan died in Louisville, Kentucky, due to lung cancer at the age of 76.{{Cite book |last=Lentz |first=Harris M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E7gHAQAAMAAJ |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts |date=1998 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978-0-7864-0748-4 |page=7 |language=en}} He was buried at Gillham Cemetery.{{Cn|date=April 2024}}

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