Allen Swift
Also Known As: Alan Swift, Ira Stadlen
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 16, 1924
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 18, 2010
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Gaston’s Mama Lisa
Overview: A Terrytoons cartoon of 1959 with Gaston le Crayon
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-01
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Robin Hoodwinked
Overview: Sir Blur, a nearsighted fellow who mistakes something or someone for something else.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-31
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The Little Drummer Boy Book II
Overview: Aaron, the drummer boy, struggles to protect a bellmaker's great silver bells from seizure by Roman soldiers
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-13
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The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town
Overview: The Mailman decides to stop another deluge of letters by answering questions about the Easter Bunny: Sunny, a baby rabbit found and adopted by Kidville (a town of only kids--even a kid mailman). And when Sunny goes delivering eggs to the nearby town (which he has to dye to fool Gadzooks, the mean bear on the mountain), he discovers that there are no kids in the town, and that the rightful (kid) ruler is being suppressed by his aunt. But the young king likes Sunny's dyed eggs and jelly beans. So Kidsville, with the help of an old train engine, makes a few plans (and a decoy chocolate rabbit) to distribute them.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Science Fiction Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-06
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Mad Monster Party?
Overview: When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there including Dracula, The Werewolf, The Creature, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. But Frankenstein's title is not all that is at stake. The famous doctor has also discovered the secret of total destruction that must not fall into the wrong hands!
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Music Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-08
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Where the Wild Things Are
Overview: A young boy named Max who, after dressing in his wolf costume, wreaks such havoc through his household that he is sent to bed without his supper. Max's bedroom undergoes a mysterious transformation into a jungle environment, and he winds up sailing to an island inhabited by malicious beasts known as the "Wild Things." After successfully intimidating the creatures, Max is hailed as the king of the Wild Things and enjoys a playful romp with his subjects. However, he starts to feel lonely and decides to return home, to the Wild Things' dismay. Upon returning to his bedroom, Max discovers a hot supper waiting for him.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-01
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Seize the Day
Overview: Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-09
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Old Mother Clobber
Overview: A CinemaScope cartoon in which Clint Clobber, in his usual job as an apartment-house manager, is annoyed no end by a brat of a girl who seems determined to drive him out of his mind as she goes about wrecking the place. But, in the end, he finds out he needs her.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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Safe Men
Overview: Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic interest is added by the daughter of the underworld leader who won't date the men she knows are gangsters.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-07
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Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes
Overview: Two con men convince a king that they have woven for him a suit made of magical cloth that only stupid or incompetent people are unable to see. Not wanting to seem dull, everyone pretends to admire the king's new clothes although he is completely naked.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-21
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Gaston, Go Home
Overview: Short with Gaston Le Crayon.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-01
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Gaston Is Here
Overview: Gaston Le Crayon is a French (kind of beatnik-looking) artist who brings his artwork to life. He's doing a famous painting to be. Movie director Alfred Fitchcock moves in next door. Fitchcock is making a movie about a man stranded in the frozen Arctic. Gaston takes it seriously. He paints a toaster, stuffs the freezing man in it, and pops him out like a piece of toast. Gaston thinks that he's doing a good deed. Fitchcock is furious.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Gaston's Easel Life
Overview: While Gaston LeCrayon is setting up his painting area on the sidewalk, a limousine zooms by and splashes mud all over the canvas. The wealthy woman, who was a passenger in that limousine, mistakes the mud-splashed canvas for "art" and invites Gaston to her mansion, wanting him to create a masterpiece with her expensive art supplies. Her husband, however, has different ideas.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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The Tale of a Dog
Overview: Through a stray dog's mishaps, the stray gets mixed up with people who aren't really paying attention. He starts out as a shoe shine boy, then ends becoming the president of the GALLAGER and Foofer Frankfurter Co.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Alice of Wonderland in Paris
Overview: Alice travels to Paris and hears five stories adapted from children's picture books in this anthology film. The books adapted include: "Anatole," "Madeline and the Bad Hat," "The Frowning Prince," "Many Moons," and "Madeline and the Gypsies."
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-05
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It's a Living
Overview: Dinky quits the cartoon business and gets a job as a spokes-duck for TV commercials.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-16
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How to Avoid Friendship
Overview: The Independent League of Loners, known as the ILL, has studied the problem of excess camaraderie and has formulated this happy guide to solitude. A case study of person types to avoid.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Slave Trade in the World Today
Overview: The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule. The filming was conducted both in public places, and sometimes with the use of hidden cameras, for high impact scenes of nudity, sex, and violence - and a few surprises, as slaves made out of peregrins to Asia, and slave traders paid in traveller checks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-06-27
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The Seapreme Court
Overview: Little Audrey, while fishing, falls to the bottom of the sea, where she encounters all types of sea-life and then is arrested by the local fish-constable. She is tried by a jury of sardines who find her guilty, and she is sentenced to the 'eelectric chair." She makes an escape attempt, and wakes up to find it has all been a dream. She has a nibble on her fishing line and reels in a small fish, which she quickly returns to the water.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-29
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Popeye's 20th Anniversary
Overview: Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films, in a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope' (several other celebrities are present, like Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, 'Jerry Lewis' and 'Dean Martin').
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-02
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The Mad Magazine TV Special
Overview: Unaired TV special based on humor magazine.
Genres: Comedy Animation TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Boo Moon
Overview: Casper the Friendly Ghost comes to the aid of King Luna and his people after being attacked by invading Tree Men. On the 3D Bluray 3-D Rarities Volume 1, this appears as an extra in 3D.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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3-D Rarities
Overview: Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World’s Fair in 1940; Thrills for You, a promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Stardust in Your Eyes, a hilarious standup routine by Slick Slavin; trailer for The Maze, with fantastic production design by William Cameron Menzies; Doom Town, a controversial anti-atomic testing film mysteriously pulled from release; puppet cartoon The Adventures of Sam Space, presented in widescreen; I’ll Sell My Shirt, a burlesque comedy unseen in 3-D for over 60 years; Boo Moon, an excellent example of color stereoscopic animation…and more!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-11
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It Happened in Hualfin
Overview: This three-part documentary on Indian peasant life in the Catamarca region of Argentina is an emotionally moving examination of the generational cycle of poverty in underdeveloped countries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-03-12
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Pinocchio's Christmas
Overview: As Geppetto prepares for Christmas, Pinocchio joins a puppet show to earn money for a present. There he meets and elopes with the beautiful girl puppet, Julietta, leaving Geppetto alone and worried.
Genres: Family Animation Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-03
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Anatole
Overview: The adventures of Anatole, a suave and debonair French mouse, in a cheese factory.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-14
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The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit
Overview: A demonstration of how to make a "Tom & Jerry" cartoon.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-01
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Overview: When a town learns that Santa Claus has struck it off his delivery schedule due to an insulting letter, a way must be found to change his mind.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-08
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High Steaks
Overview: Tom's owner, Clint Clobber, is grilling steaks in his backyard. The steak's scent reaches Jerry, who is aroused by it and is led to the steak.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-23
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Dicky Moe
Overview: In a 19th century fishing harbor, the captain of the Komquot is obsessed with catching the great white whale Dicky Moe. His obsession unnerves his crew so badly that they all desert the ship. Shortly afterward, the captain finds Tom searching for food in the harbor, knocks him out, and takes him aboard. Tom believes at first that he is going on a cruise, but the captain soon puts him to work scrubbing the deck.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-07-20
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Depth Study
Overview: Three archaeologists learn about the impact television, especially the CBS network, had on postwar America.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-13
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A Wedding Knight
Overview: Sir Blur stumbles into a kingdom. A king is having trouble getting someone to marry his daughter because she's, to put it mildly, ugly. Guess who stumbles into the contest? Sir Blur was Famous Studios' answer to Mr. Magoo in that he was another nearsighted fellow who mistakes something or someone for something else.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-08
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The Blacksheep Blacksmith
Overview: The half-blind Sir Blur, who is both knight and mailman, torments a blacksmith with his bumbling.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-09
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Geronimo and Son
Overview: The story of Geronimo, an American indian, and his brother.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-09
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Keep the Cool, Baby
Overview: Mr. Spider picks up the milk and the morning news. Now he needs something to eat for breakfast. The hungry spider is hoping to make his breakfast from the various visitors in his web, but oh, boy, is he in for a big surprise! He traps a honeybee in his web; the irate bee threatens him with a sting and gets away. Next, he gets a British wasp. The wasp thinks that he wants to have breakfast and a spot of tea with him. No tea, no wasp. Next, a little moth... only the moth snares the spider in his own web and takes it home to his mother for breakfast... Features a cool jazz music score and a wild visual design.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-09
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A Family Circus Christmas
Overview: The family is decorating their tree when Daddy notices the star his father made is missing. When Billy asks Mommy why this made Daddy sad, she tells him it's because the star was made by his father, their Granddad, who is in Heaven. Jeffy then has a vivid dream about Santa, and asks him in the dream to bring Granddad home from Heaven for Christmas to make Daddy happy again. When Billy learns that Jeffy thinks this really will happen, he is afraid that Jeffy's Christmas will be ruined, since Santa can't do that. Mommy tries to explain why it's not possible to Jeffy after Dolly tells her what Jeffy thinks, but he gets upset and doesn't want to hear it. That night, he gets a visit from Santa, and Granddad.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-18
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Crazytown
Overview: The story of a town where everything is topsy-turvy.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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It's Greek to Me-ow!
Overview: This cartoon opens with a narrator introducing the ancient Greek Acropolis, describing its wealth and beautiful architecture. Tom is depicted as one of these inhabitants, an alley cat who lives in the shadows of Athens searching for food.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-06
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Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
Overview: Raggedy Ann and Andy, along with other toys, reside in the nursery of a little girl named Marcella. During Marcella's seventh birthday, Babette, from France, is introduced as the new doll from a large package. Meanwhile, the lecherous Captain Contagious kidnaps Babette in his pirate ship and escapes from the nursery. Ann and Andy must explore and find Babette in the Deep Deep Woods to save her.
Genres: Animation Adventure Music Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Camp Clobber
Overview: The apartment house superintendent, Clint Clobber, a turkey if there ever was one, is constantly pestered by an old retired Army general, who keeps the tenants in a dither and uproar with his hard-nosed and disciplined military habits. Clint finally finds a way to rid the house of the undesirable tenant.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-22
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The Red Baron
Overview: This animated feature casts the Red Baron as a hero, in a world of heroic anthropomorphic dogs and villainous anthropomorphic cats.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Family Fantasy TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-09
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Down and Outing
Overview: Tom accompanies his owner, Clint Clobber, who has severe anger management issues, on a fishing trip.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-25
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Sorry Safari
Overview: Tom joins his owner on a hunting safari in Kenya. Jerry has hidden himself in the Clint's luggage, and Tom quickly sees him and attempts to get rid of him.
Genres: Animation Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-12
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Tall in the Trap
Overview: When Jerry rustles cheese from the Dry Gulch General Store, Sheriff Mutt Dillin hires Tom, the fastest trap in the West.
Genres: Animation Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-14
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The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters
Overview: All of Universal's greatest classic monsters gather at the Transylvania Astoria Hotel for Frankenstein's monster and his bride's Friday the 13th midnight wedding.
Genres: Animation Comedy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-23
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