Biography
Ira Stadlen (January 16, 1924 – April 18, 2010 ), known professionally as Allen Swift, was an American voice actor, known for playing characters including Simon Bar Sinister and Riff-Raff on the Underdog cartoon show. He provided the voices of many of the characters in The Bluffers, most of the voices for the 1960s underwater puppet show Diver Dan, and the voices in Gene Deitch's 1960–1962 group of Tom and Jerry cartoons. Swift was a children's television show host on WPIX in New York City as "Captain Allen". He took his professional name from radio comedian Fred Allen and 18th century satirist Jonathan Swift. Swift was an early television star who hosted The Popeye Show from September 10, 1956 to September 23, 1960, until he was forced to leave the program. The reason for his dismissal from "The Popeye Show" was creative differences with station management.(Info can be found in"The Popeye Show"aticle in The NYC Kids Shows Round Up"section of"TV Party.Com") Swift did the majority of the voices in Rankin/Bass's Mad Monster Party?, credited as Alan (sic) Swift in the movie's credits. He supplied most of the character voices for the NBC Howdy Doody Show, and when Buffalo Bob Smith, who himself did the voice of the lead puppet character Howdy Doody and had many times proclaimed that "nobody else could do Howdy" suffered a heart attack, Swift took home some recordings over the weekend, came back on Monday and did Howdy's voice for more than a year.(Info can be found in Tv Bloq section of TV Party.Com) Swift also served as the second comedy writer for "Howdy Doody." He took on the job, following the abrupt departure of the series' first comedy writer and songwriter, Edward Kean.(info at "TV Bloq"/Past entry #168 at "TV Party.Com") He also wrote the play Checking Out. Swift was married to actress Lenore Loveman, and is the father of character actor, mimic and singer Lewis J. Stadlen, holistic health practitioner, Maxime Stadlen and psychotherapist, Clare A. Stadlen. He lived in Manhattan. Allen had been "suffering with a series of health calamities for several years, since he fell and broke his hip while walking his dog. From that moment, one thing led to another," said personal friend and director Gene Deitch. "Even though [I've been] here for 50 years, hardly a year went by without a visit to his 57th Street apartment, nor a day go by without e-mail and most recently Skype visits," added Deitch, an American expatriate living in the Czech Republic.
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Filmography
all 84
Movies 71
TV Shows 13
Narrator 8
Voice 6
Writer 1
Director 1
3-D Rarities (2015)
Checking Out (2005)
Safe Men (1998)
Law & Order (1990)
Crime Story (1986)
Seize the Day (1986)
The Equalizer (1985)
The Bluffers (1985)
Kate & Allie (1984)
Pinocchio's Christmas (1980)
A Family Circus Christmas (1979)
The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town (1977)
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977)
The Little Drummer Boy Book II (1976)
Where the Wild Things Are (1975)
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974)
Barbapapa (1974)
The Mad Magazine TV Special (1974)
The Red Baron (1972)
The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters (1972)
The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes (1972)
The Giants (1970)
Keep the Cool, Baby (1967)
Robin Hoodwinked (1967)
Mad Monster Party? (1967)
The Blacksheep Blacksmith (1967)
Geronimo and Son (1966)
A Wedding Knight (1966)
Alice of Wonderland in Paris (1966)
It Happened in Hualfin (1965)
Underdog (1964)
The Ultimate Underdog Collection (1964)
Slave Trade in the World Today (1964)
How to Avoid Friendship (1964)
Tennessee Tuxedo (1963)
Carmen Get It! (1962)
Buddies Thicker Than Water (1962)
Sorry Safari (1962)
Tall in the Trap (1962)
Anatole (1962)
The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit (1962)
Dicky Moe (1962)
Calypso Cat (1962)
Landing Stripling (1962)
Mouse Into Space (1962)
High Steaks (1962)
Samson Scrap (1962)
It's Greek to Me-ow! (1961)
Down and Outing (1961)
Switchin' Kitten (1961)
King Leonardo and His Short Subjects (1960)
Tooter Turtle (1960)
The Fabulous Firework Family (1959)
Gaston’s Mama Lisa (1959)
The Flamboyant Arms (1959)
Another Day, Another Doormat (1959)
The Tale of a Dog (1959)
Clobber's Ballet Ache (1959)
Signed, Sealed, and Clobbered (1958)
Gaston's Easel Life (1958)
Old Mother Clobber (1958)
Camp Clobber (1958)
Dustcap Doormat (1958)
Gaston, Go Home (1958)
Springtime for Clobber (1958)
Gaston's Baby (1958)
It's a Living (1957)
A Bum Steer (1957)
Shove Thy Neighbor (1957)
Depth Study (1957)
Gaston Is Here (1957)
Flebus (1957)
Cops Is Tops (1955)
Mouse Trapeze (1955)
News Hound (1955)
Fido Beta Kappa (1954)
Popeye's 20th Anniversary (1954)
Crazytown (1954)
The Seapreme Court (1954)
Pump Trouble (1954)
Boo Moon (1954)
Howdy Doody (1947)
The Beagles
Diver Dan
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GenderMale
Birthday1924-01-16
Deathday2010-04-18 (86 years old)
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsAlan Swift, Ira Stadlen
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