Actor-writer-producer Todd Allen has appeared in
over 50 film and television productions. Among the more notable are
three films with Director Lawrence Kasdan, SILVERADO, GRAND CANYON, and
WYATT EARP. He has also appeared in several films with Academy Award
winner Kevin Costner. Allen also co-starred with Robert Duvall in his
Academy Award-nominated, THE APOSTLE, and again more recently in the
Emmy Award winning AMC original mini-series, BROKEN TRAIL, where he
received excellent reviews for the role of “Marshal Bill Miller.”
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Allen has just completed filming the lead role in
the independent feature, AMERICAN CARTEL, playing a Texas Ranger who
brings down a dangerous drug cartel.
Recent television appearances include CLAIRE, a
movie for the Hallmark Channel, and guest-starring appearances on MONK,
CSI, and NCIS. Previously, he had leading roles in the television
movies, “The Soul Collector”, “Night Visitors”, “Tall Dark and Deadly”
and others. A personal favorite came early in his career when he
played jet ace Chuck Yeager in the CBS three-hour special presentation
of “Pancho Barnes”.
As a Producer, Allen has multiple projects in
development in features and television through his company, Presidio
Pictures. He stars in as well as Produced a feature/short entitled,
AMERICAN IDENTITY, a tribute to the victims of 9/11 and to the men and
women of American’s Armed Forces. In the film, Allen plays Marine
“Master Sergeant Wilkins,” a warrior who maintains an unfailing sense of
humor even on the battlefield in Afghanistan. The feature version of
the film is in development. Allen is also preparing to direct his
first feature, THE MIDNIGHT HOUR, developed with screen writer Steven
Graham. Set against the vibrant backdrop of delta blues, it is a
powerful story of the bond between friends (one white, one black),
tested to its core, that endures despite crossing racial lines during a
time of great upheaval in America’s history, the Civil Rights era.
Allen is also partnered with Kevin Costner and Tig
Productions on an epic mini-series of early Texas entitled NOT BETWEEN
BROTHERS, which details the collision of cultures that occurred to form
early Texas. Based on the Novel by David Marion Wilkinson.
He is the writer of several well-regarded
screenplays including a co-writing credit on “THE EMPTY QUARTER,” based
on the novel by David Marion Wilkinson. A timely story of the clash of
cultures, and a man’s search for his true self, set on a high-pressure
drilling rig in Saudi Arabia’s Rub Al Khali desert, the bleak Empty
Quarter. Two he plans to direct are, THE DESERTERS, a gritty, film-noir
western based on the Luke Short novel, and SUICIDE GRIP, a love story
set against the exciting and dangerous backdrop of the World Rodeo
Finals in Las Vegas.
A requested speaker at film and writer’s
conferences, Allen was previously the Keynote speaker at the Ozark
Creative Writers Conference. He was instrumental in the formation
Texas’ first Film Incentive Initiative, and has been an advisor to the
Austin Film Festival. He maintains residences in Los Angeles and Austin
and is a devoted Texas Longhorn fan.
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