Bob Allen

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Forenames(s): Bob
Family name: Allen
Work area/Craft/Role: Sound
Industry: TV, Film
Company: BBC, BBC Film Unit, Pinewood
Websites: Imdb, New Zealand Onscreen, Let's Hear It For Sound
Interview no: 394
Interview date(s): 5 December 1996
Interviewer(s): Peter Handford
Production Media: audio
Duration (mins): 179

Bob Allen was born in New Zealand but came to Britain in 1951 to work in the film and television industry as a sound recordist. 
Among the films he worked on  included Clive Donner's The Caretaker (1963), Young Cassidy (1965), 
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968)
10 Rillington Place (1971), The  Day of the Jackal( 1973) , Caravan to Vaccares (1974), Scrubbers (1982) and The Shooting Party (1984).

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