A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Kevin Edward Allen
Birthplace:
Gosport, Hampshire, England, UK
Born:
September 15, 1959
Kevin Allen is an English-born Welsh screenwriter, film director, film producer and actor. In 1997 he directed and wrote the cult Welsh black comedy feature "Twin Town". He also directed the films "The Big Tease" and "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London" and hit TV series "Benidorm". He is the younger brother of comedian and actor Keith Allen and uncle of singer Lily Allen . Allen first came to national prominence in 1990 when he documented an England fan's eye view of the 1990 FIFA World Cup Finals in Italy with his camcorder for the BBC series "Video Diaries" in an episode entitled "On The March With Bobby's Army". Kevin's first acting roles came by way of "The Comic Strip" and progressed to the BBC sitcom "The Thin Blue Line" and many other theatre and TV roles. He also wrote and directed several documentaries for the BBC in the 1990s.
Director:
1997 Twin Town
1999 The Big Tease
2004 Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2012 Flat Lake
2013 Y Syrcas
2015 Under Milk Wood
2021 La Cha Cha
Screenplay:
1997 Twin Town
1999 The Big Tease
2004 Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2012 Flat Lake
2013 Y Syrcas
2015 Under Milk Wood
2021 La Cha Cha
Writer:
1997 Twin Town
1999 The Big Tease
2004 Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2012 Flat Lake
2013 Y Syrcas
2015 Under Milk Wood
2021 La Cha Cha
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.