Irwin Allen

Music by John Williams

His unforgettable scores are an essential part of some of the most beloved movies of our time, over a career that spans decades. See and hear maestro John Williams' own story, with insights from filmmakers, musicians, and others he has inspired, complete with rare behind-the-scenes looks at the making of movie history.

Release Date:2024-11-01

Character:Self - Producer, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno (archive footage)

Vote Count:51

Lost in Space

After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fights against all odds to survive and escape. But they're surrounded by hidden dangers.

Release Date:2018-04-13

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1667

Lost in Space

The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find themselves hurtling through uncharted space.

Release Date:1998-04-03

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1219

Outrage!

After a technicality results in the release of a man being tried for the rape and murder of a young woman, her father murders the man. Admitting his guilt and refusing to use temporary insanity, the father places his attorney in a virtual no-win situation. In an extreme effort, the attorney decides to call the judge who released the murderer originally and to challenge the entire legal system that would permit such a travesty.

Release Date:1986-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:8

Alice in Wonderland

Sometimes she's too big. Or much too small. Sometimes things are backwards. And there's always too much pepper in the soup! Nothing is quite right since Alice chased a very unusual White Rabbit and stumbled into an adventure that grows curiouser and curiouser. One of the greatest childhood fantasies is captured in Irwin Allen's colorful production adapted from Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Originally aired over two nights in 1985 on CBS.

Release Date:1985-12-09

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:31

Cave-In!

A party of tourists -- including a state senator, a park ranger who was her one-time lover, a cantankerous professor, and an escaped convict -- are trapped deep inside the caverns of an unnamed national park, rescued briefly, and then caught in a second cave-in.

Release Date:1983-06-19

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:2

Terror at Alcatraz

Tom and Dick Smothers play Bones Howard and Ryan Fitzgerald, a TV cameraman and intrepid reporter, respectively, involved in the race to find the buried treasure of Al Capone on Alcatraz Island at the former prison where he was imprisoned.

Release Date:1982-07-04

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Aliens From Another Planet

A senator is sent to inspect a project that can send people into the future or past & decide if it is feasible to continue. One of the scientists working on it, decides to go through it anyway... This is a compilation of three episodes of the 1960's TV series, "The Time Tunnel".

Release Date:1982-03-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

The Night the Bridge Fell Down

A group of random individuals get stranded on a bridge that begins collapsing at both ends. Not only that, but there's a gun-wielding bank robber using the bridge as his means of escape refusing to let any of the rescuers draw near the survivors. Time is running out ...

Release Date:1980-09-06

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:4

The Memory of Eva Ryker

A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the circumstances of the mother's death 30 years prior, it triggers a new rash of emotional turmoil for the young woman and uncovers a heinous crime.

Release Date:1980-05-05

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1

When Time Ran Out...

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

Release Date:1980-03-28

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:68

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.

Release Date:1979-05-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:122

Hanging by a Thread

A group of old friends on an outing re-live various traumas and tragedies via flashback whilst trapped high above a ravine in a disabled cable-car.

Release Date:1979-05-08

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:3

The Swarm

Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.

Release Date:1978-07-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:173

Inside 'the Swarm'

A behind-the-scenes/Making of documentary short focused on Irwin Allen's all-star disaster flick The Swarm.

Release Date:1978-01-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Viva Knievel!

The legendary stuntman plans his most incredible stunt yet while battling the mob in this action-adventure.

Release Date:1977-06-10

Department:Production

Job:Supervising Producer

Vote Count:14

Flood!

Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.

Release Date:1977-06-05

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:13

Fire!

The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name cast and enough blazing special effects to turn night into day. Involved are a lumber mill owner (Ernest Borgnine), the widowed operator of a forest lodge (Vera Miles), a teacher on a class outing (Donna Mills), a country doctor (Lloyd Nolan), a couple (Patty Duke Astin and Alex Cord) whose shaky marriage is healed when battling the blaze brings out their better natures, and escaping convicts (Neville Brand and Erik Estrada) who use the conflagration to cover their tracks. Like Allen’s crowd-pleasers The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Fire sizzles with suspense and excitement. Turn up the heat!

Release Date:1977-05-08

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:11

Time Travelers

When a novel virus devastates the world in 1976, Dr. Earnshaw notices that it resembles a virus that a Dr. Henderson found a cure for in 1871 Chicago. However, the doctor perished and his notes were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire. Earnshaw is approached by a government agent, Jeffrey Adams, who informs him of a Top Secret time traveling technology and asks for his assistance in finding Dr. Henderson and his cure. But their adventure becomes a race against time when a glitch sends them back to the day before the fire instead of the planned four days.

Release Date:1976-03-19

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:13

The Swiss Family Robinson

The Swiss Family Robinson is an American action and adventure series

Release Date:1975-09-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:20

Vote Count:5

The Swiss Family Robinson

A family shipwrecked on a deserted island tries to survive the best way they can. All is going well until a gang of pirates arrives on the island looking for a hidden treasure.

Release Date:1975-04-15

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Adventures of the Queen

A madman hijacks the luxury cruise liner, S.S. Queen, and threatens to blow it up unless a millionaire pays him the the contents of a safe deposit box. The crew regains control of the ship, but the hijacker dies, taking the codes to disarm the bomb with him.

Release Date:1975-02-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:5

The Towering Inferno

At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Release Date:1974-12-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:947

Lost in Space

An animated version of the much loved 1960's TV series. This time the Jupiter 2 is a space shuttle on its way from Earth to Saturn, commanded by Commander Craig Robinson and crewed by Robon the robot. The passengers are Linc Robinson, Craig's brother, Geologist Deanna Carmichael and Professor of Biology, Dr. Zachary Smith, who is not a stowaway this time. During the flight they are caught in a meteor storm sending them through a space warp, causing them to be "lost in space". Nearing an inhabited planet they come under attack forcing them to make a crash landing where they find two alien races, but are they friendly?

Release Date:1973-09-08

Department:Writing

Job:Original Series Creator

The Poseidon Adventure

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

Release Date:1972-12-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:896

City Beneath the Sea

A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. government wants to stash all its gold reserves from Fort Knox there, along with a fantastic new radioactive element. The brother of Pacifica's returning former commander plans to steal the gold and on top of that, the city faces destruction by an asteroid from outer space!

Release Date:1971-07-16

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:11

Land of the Giants

Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift. In the pilot episode, the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London, on an ultra-fast sub-orbital flight. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the Spindrift encounters a magnetic space storm, and is dragged through a space warp to a mysterious planet where everything is twelve times larger than on Earth, whose inhabitants the Earthlings nickname "the Giants". The Spindrift crash-lands, and the damage renders it inoperable.

Release Date:1968-09-22

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:51

Vote Count:42

The Time Tunnel

The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Reruns are viewable on cable and by internet streaming. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, although it was not picked up.

Release Date:1966-09-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:171

Lost in Space

The space family Robinson is sent on a five-year mission to find a new planet to colonise. The voyage is sabotaged time and again by an inept stowaway, Dr. Zachary Smith. The family's spaceship, Jupiter II, also carries a friendly robot who endures an endless stream of abuse from Dr. Smith, but is a trusted companion of young Will Robinson

Release Date:1965-09-15

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:83

Vote Count:113

Lost in Space - No Place to Hide

The Robinsons, Earth's first family of outer space, head to colonize Alpha Centauri in their flying saucer, the Gemini 12, but crash land on an uncharted planet where they deal with its challenges and dangers.

Release Date:1965-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Join the crew of the Seaview aboard their super high-tech submarine, where no mission is too dangerous and no threat is too deadly, be it enemy agents, mad scientists, deadly sea creatures, or impending nuclear disaster.

Release Date:1964-09-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:121

Five Weeks in a Balloon

Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.

Release Date:1962-08-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:28

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.

Release Date:1961-07-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:126

The Lost World

Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.

Release Date:1960-07-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:98

The Big Circus

A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.

Release Date:1959-07-05

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:14

The Story of Mankind

The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.

Release Date:1957-11-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:22

The Animal World

A documentary showcasing the world's many different animal species, both past and present.

Release Date:1956-05-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

Dangerous Mission

A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.

Release Date:1954-03-06

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:11

The Sea Around Us

Irwin Allen explores the mysteries of the deep blue sea in this Technicolor documentary. Based on Rachel L. Carson's famous study, this Oscar winning project investigates everything under the sea, from sharks, whales and octopuses to microscopical creatures and their coexistence in this vast underwater world.

Release Date:1953-06-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

Where Danger Lives

A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.

Release Date:1950-11-16

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:49