Allan Carr

Film Producer

Birthday May 27, 1937

Birth Sign Gemini

Birthplace Illinois

DEATH DATE Jun 29, 1999 (62)

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About

Tony-nominated theatrical and film talent manager and producer who founded the Allan Carr Enterprises agency. Also a screenwriter, he penned the film adaptation of the popular Broadway musical Grease.

Before Fame

He attended Lake Forest College and Northwestern University. He launched his career in the entertainment industry by investing money in the Broadway musical Ziegfeld Follies.

Trivia

In the late 1970s, he produced the ad campaigns for Saturday Night Fever and Grease.

Family Life

His family lived in Chicago, Illinois at the time of his birth. He died of liver cancer at the age of sixty-two.

Associated With

He worked on The Deer Hunter, a film that starred Robert De Niro.