Allen Swift
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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Movies (48)
3-D Rarities
2015 · Lookout (archive footage)
Checking Out
2006 · Theatre Play
Safe Men
1998 · Sol
Seize the Day
1986 · Maurice Venice
Pinocchio's Christmas
1980 · Fox (voice)
A Family Circus Christmas
1979 · Santa Claus
The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town
1977 · Gadzooks / Newsreel Announcer / Blue Engine / Town Guard (voice)
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
1977 · Maxi-Fixit (voice)
The Little Drummer Boy: Book II
1976 · Simeon / Soldiers (voice)
Where the Wild Things Are
1975 · Narrator (voice)
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
1974 · Santa Claus (voice)
The Mad Magazine TV Special
1974
The Red Baron
1972 · Voice
The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters
1972 · Dracula / The Monster / Dr. Jekyll / The Invisible Man (voice)
The Emperor's New Clothes
1972 · Mufty (voice)
Keep the Cool, Baby
1967 · Bee / Moth (voice) (uncredited)
Robin Hoodwinked
1967 · Sir Blur / Robin Hood
Mad Monster Party?
1967 · Felix Flankin / Yetch / Dracula / Invisible Man / Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde / Additional Voices
The Blacksheep Blacksmith
1967 · Voice
Geronimo and Son
1966 · Wickhead/Geronimo/Say-Ah (voice)
A Wedding Knight
1966 · Sir Blur/King Arthur (voice)
Alice of Wonderland in Paris
1966 · François / Narrator / King (segment "Many Moons") / Lord High Chamberlain (voice)
It Happened in Hualfin
1965 · English Narrator (voice)
Slave Trade in the World Today
1964 · Narrator
How to Avoid Friendship
1964
Sorry Safari
1962 · Tom / Jerry (voice)
Anatole
1962 · Francios (voice)
Tall in the Trap
1962 · (voice)
The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit
1962 · Narrator (voice)
Dicky Moe
1962 · (voice)
High Steaks
1962 · (voice)
Samson Scrap and Delilah
1962 · Writer
It's Greek to Me-ow!
1961 · Tom / Jerry / Clint (voice)
Down and Outing
1961 · Tom Cat / Jerry Mouse / Clint Clobber (voice)
Katnip's Big Day
1959 · Herman (voice)
Gaston’s Mama Lisa
1959 · Gaston le Crayon
The Tale of a Dog
1959
Gaston's Easel Life
1958
Old Mother Clobber
1958
Camp Clobber
1958 · Clint Clobber / General / Mr.Lofy (voice)
Gaston, Go Home
1958
It's a Living
1957 · (voice)
Depth Study
1957 · Economist / Communications Expert / Sociologist / Museum Curator / Wife / Bartender (voice)
Gaston Is Here
1957
Popeye's 20th Anniversary
1954 · Audience Members (uncredited)
Crazytown
1954 · Father / People saying goodbye / Boxer (uncredited)
The Seapreme Court
1954 · Various Fish (uncredited)
Boo Moon
1954 · Lookout
TV shows (13)
Law & Order
1990 · Abe Pomerance, Jacob Rosen
Crime Story
1986 · Hartman
The Equalizer
1985 · Monty
The Bluffers
1985
Kate & Allie
1984
Underdog
1964
Underdog
1964 · Riff Raff (Voice)
Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales
1963
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
King Leonardo and His Short Subjects
1960 · Odie Cologne (voice)
Tooter Turtle
1960 · Tooter
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Self
Howdy Doody
1947