Robert Allen
Robert "Tex" Allen (also credited as Bob Allen) was a leading actor in both feature films and B-movie westerns between 1935 and 1944.
Born as Irvine E. Theodore Baehr on March 28, 1906 in Mount Vernon, New York, Allen went on to graduate from the New York Military Academy in 1924, where he rode in the academy cavalry and from Dartmouth College in 1929 with a degree in English. In vacations he had driven a truck as a labourer. He worked for a bank which soon failed in the Great Depression. He flew briefly with the Curtis Flying service as a commercial pilot. He first came to the screen in 1926 before signing a standard acting contract with Paramount Pictures, in 1929. He appeared in the famous Marx Brothers movie Animal Crackers and several other small parts. Then, he signed with Columbia Pictures in 1935. He also later contracted with 20th Century Fox.
Allen's first notable role was the male lead in Love Me Forever (1935), for which he won a Box Office Award. He gained additional notice as the star of When You're in Love (1936), opposite Grace Moore. The same year, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in the title role in the film The Life of Lafayette.
After the departure of cowboy star Ken Maynard, Allen was plugged into producer Larry Darmour's formulaic Ranger pictures. Along with sidekick Wally Wales (played by Hal Taliaferro), he redefined the role, starring in six films for director Spencer Gordon Bennet in that year alone. These films became known as the Bob Allen Ranger series. However, the studio was looking for a singing cowboy to compete with Gene Autry and Allen was eventually replaced by Roy Rogers. He appeared in two dozen films after that, however.
He had acted on Broadway in the original productions of Show Boat and Kiss Them for Me. In 1956 he appeared in the original production of Auntie Mame, opposite Rosalind Russell, and later Greer Garson. He appeared in other Broadway plays, in touring productions, in soap operas, documentaries and commercials. He became a real estate broker in 1964 but returned to the stage from time to time, including an appearance as J.B. Biggley in the 1972 Equity Library Theatre revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.295 |
Birthday | 1906-03-28 |
Place of Birth | Mount Vernon, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Bob Allen, Robert Allen, Robert (Tex) Allen, Irvine E. Theodore Baehr, |
1935
The Black Room
6.4/57
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the ol...
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The Black Room
1937
The Awful Truth
7.214/304
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
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The Awful Truth
1936
The Unknown Ranger
0/0
Bob Allen in his starring debut gets a job on Wright's ranch where he hopes to find the rustlers no one else has been able to locate. Everyone is look...
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The Unknown Ranger
1936
Rio Grande Ranger
0/0
Sayres and his outlaw gang operate out of a town just across the border and out of the jurisdiction of the Texas Rangers. Ranger Bob Allen is sent acr...
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Rio Grande Ranger
1935
Crime and Punishment
6.471/52
A man is haunted by a murder he's committed.
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Crime and Punishment
1940
City of Chance
5.2/7
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
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City of Chance
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Raiders of the Living Dead
3.5/14
In an abandoned prison, a doctor has revived executed convicts as the living dead. Teenager, Jonathan creates a laser gun from a videodisc player and...
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Raiders of the Living Dead
1935
White Lies
6/1
A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is i...
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White Lies
1935
Air Hawks
5.5/4
A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
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Air Hawks
1935
Guard That Girl
4/1
Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' detective agency, to protect Estelle Hudson, a cli...
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Guard That Girl
1935
Party Wire
8/2
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
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Party Wire
1935
Love Me Forever
4.8/4
A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.
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Love Me Forever
1938
Gateway
6.5/3
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in h...
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Gateway
1937
Law of the Ranger
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Working undercover, Rangers Bob and Wally arrive to take up ranching. Out to stop them is Bill Nash and his men. When Bob plans to file on a ranch, Na...
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Law of the Ranger
1939
Tail Spin
5.8/5
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to r...
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Tail Spin
1936
Craig's Wife
6.3/15
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her...
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Craig's Wife
1939
Everybody's Baby
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The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
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Everybody's Baby
1935
Death Flies East
5/1
Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inma...
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Death Flies East
1935
Fighting Shadows
6/1
Mountie Tim O'Hara is sent to Indian River to investigate a fur trading racket. But he quickly finds himself in trouble when he is accused of shooting...
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Fighting Shadows
1937
Ranger Courage
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The Harper wagon train is carrying money and Bull and his gang are after it. When their first attack is foiled by the rangers, Allen trails them. But...
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Ranger Courage
1935
Law Beyond the Range
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Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When newspaper editor Alexander dies, Tim takes over to...
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Law Beyond the Range
1939
Fighting Thoroughbreds
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A prize-winning stallion breeds off-guard with a mare owned by his rival. The colt is trained to race from birth, eventually running in the Kentucky D...
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Fighting Thoroughbreds
1937
The Rangers Step In
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Tom Martin wants to buy the Jed Warren ranch as he knows the railroad wants it for the right-of-way, but Jed refuses to sell...
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The Rangers Step In
1935
The Revenge Rider
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Cowboy Tim McCoy becomes an instrument of revenge when he discovers his parents have been killed.
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The Revenge Rider
1937
Reckless Ranger
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When Jim Allen is lynched, his identical twin brother Bob, a Texas Ranger, takes his place in an attempt to flush out the man responsible.
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Reckless Ranger
1938
Kentucky
5.7/11
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...
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Kentucky
1938
Meet the Girls
4.5/2
Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.
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Meet the Girls
1939
Winter Carnival
6/1
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
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Winter Carnival
1935
I'll Love You Always
3/1
Nora Clegg, an actress, marries Carl Brent, an unemployed young engineer, whose estimation of his worth and ability keeps him from getting a job. He f...
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I'll Love You Always
1939
Winner Take All
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When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him; but a reporter arranges for a real boxer to put him i...
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Winner Take All
1934
Jealousy
4.7/3
Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during...
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Jealousy
1938
Keep Smiling
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Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.
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Keep Smiling
1934
Girl in Danger
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Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
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Girl in Danger
1931
The Reckless Hour
7/2
Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a...
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The Reckless Hour
1931
Night Nurse
6.7/76
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small chil...
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Night Nurse
1934
The Captain Hates the Sea
6.5/4
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are...
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The Captain Hates the Sea
1937
Hold 'Em Navy
3/1
Two football players fight over the same girl.
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Hold 'Em Navy
1933
Racetrack
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Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted inwardly. He becomes fond of a homeless waif, Jackie...
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Racetrack
1934
Social Register
4.5/2
Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. Howev...
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Social Register
1930
Animal Crackers
6.9/232
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of in...
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Animal Crackers
1926
The Quarterback
6/1
Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University. Twe...
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The Quarterback
1931
Big Business Girl
5.5/2
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.
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Big Business Girl
1931
Party Husband
5/1
Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its pr...
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Party Husband
1934
Menace
6.5/2
A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's death.
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Menace
1937
Let's Get Married
5/1
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Let's Get Married
1964
Pie in the Sky
0/0
Rural runaway finds himself in Manhattan.
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Pie in the Sky
1945
Thrill of a Romance
6.2/6
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
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