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name: "Allyn Joslyn"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 July 1901"
died: "21 January 1981"
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average_as: "actor"
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# Allyn Joslyn

Actor. Born 21 July 1901 in Milford, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 21 January 1981.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 July 1901, Milford, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Died:** 21 January 1981
- **Also known as:** Allen Joslyn
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allyn_Joslyn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2069005, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0430870/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/87698

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- **Tubi:** [*Heaven Can Wait*](https://film.one/film/heaven-can-wait-1943.md) (84)

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## Biography

Allyn Joslyn (also credited as Allen Joslyn) was an American character actor who worked in theatre, radio, film and television. Born in Milford, Pennsylvania, he began performing on stage as a teenager and appeared in Broadway productions including the 1935 hit *Boy Meets Girl* and the original 1941 cast of *Arsenic and Old Lace*.

He made his screen debut in *They Won't Forget* (1937) and went on to appear in films such as *Only Angels Have Wings* (1939), *The Great McGinty* (1940), *I Wake Up Screaming* (1941), *My Sister Eileen* (1942) and *Heaven Can Wait* (1943), in which he played Albert Van Cleve. Joslyn was also a prolific radio performer, appearing in thousands of broadcasts, and later worked extensively in television, including guest roles in series such as *The Addams Family* (1964) and *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955). He died in 1981.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com, allmovie.com, web.archive.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Heaven Can Wait* (1943), Fi1m 84, as Albert Van Cleve — [page](https://film.one/film/heaven-can-wait-1943.md)

## Complete filmography (61)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Brothers O'Toole* (1973), as Sheriff Ed Hatfield
- *F Troop* (1965), series, Actor
- *Kilroy* (1965), as Mr. Fuller
- *Nightmare in the Sun* (1965), as Rock Club leader
- *The Addams Family* (1964), series, as Mr. Hilliard
- *McKeever and the Colonel* (1962), series, as Colonel Harvey T. Blackwell
- *Ben Casey* (1961), series, Actor
- *Target: The Corruptors!* (1961), series, Actor
- *Peter Loves Mary* (1960), series, Actor
- *The Tom Ewell Show* (1960), series, Actor
- *The Alaskans* (1959), series, Actor
- *Rawhide* (1959), series, as Albert Ashton-Warner
- *Have Gun, Will Travel* (1957), series, Actor
- *Public Pigeon No. 1* (1957), as Harvey Baker
- *You Can't Run Away from It* (1956), as Joe Gordon · Editor
- *The Fastest Gun Alive* (1956), as Harvey Maxwell
- *The 20th Century Fox Hour* (1955), series, Actor
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Mort Barnhardt
- *Gunsmoke* (1955), series, as Sam
- *The Wonderful World of Disney* (1954), series, as Mr. Fuller
- *Where's Raymond?* (1953), series, as Jonathan Wallace
- *Island in the Sky* (1953), as J.H. Handy
- *Titanic* (1953), as Earl Meeker
- *I Love Melvin* (1953), as Pop Schneider
- *The Jazz Singer* (1953), as George Miller
- *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as Charles Crewes, Woody Purvis
- *As Young as You Feel* (1951), as George Hodges
- *Harriet Craig* (1950), as Billy Birkmire
- *The Lady Takes a Sailor* (1949), as Ralph Whitcomb
- *Moonrise* (1948), as Clem Otis
- *If You Knew Susie* (1948), as Mike Garrett
- *The Shocking Miss Pilgrim* (1947), as Leander Woolsey
- *The Thrill of Brazil* (1946), as John Habour
- *It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog* (1946), as Henry Barton
- *Colonel Effingham's Raid* (1946), as Earl Hoats
- *Junior Miss* (1945), as Harry Graves
- *The Horn Blows at Midnight* (1945), as Second Trumpeter / Osidro
- *Strange Affair* (1944), as Bill Harrison
- *Sweet and Low-Down* (1944), as Lester Barnes
- *Bride by Mistake* (1944), as Phil Vernon
- *The Impostor* (1944), as Bouteau
- *Dangerous Blondes* (1943), as Barry Craig
- *Heaven Can Wait* (1943), as Albert Van Cleve — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/heaven-can-wait-1943.md)
- *Young Ideas* (1943), as Adam Trent
- *Immortal Sergeant* (1943), as Cassidy
- *My Sister Eileen* (1942), as Chic Clark
- *The Affairs of Martha* (1942), as Joel Archer
- *The Wife Takes a Flyer* (1942), as Major Zellfritz
- *Bedtime Story* (1941), as William Dudley
- *I Wake Up Screaming* (1941), as Larry Evans
- *This Thing Called Love* (1940), as Harry Bertrand
- *No Time for Comedy* (1940), as Morgan Carrell
- *The Great McGinty* (1940), as George
- *If I Had My Way* (1940), as Jarvis Johnson
- *Fast and Furious* (1939), as Ted Bentley
- *Only Angels Have Wings* (1939), as Les Peters
- *Cafe Society* (1939), as Sonny De Witt
- *Sweethearts* (1938), as Dink
- *The Shining Hour* (1938), as Roger Q. Franklin
- *Expensive Husbands* (1937), as Joe Craig
- *They Won't Forget* (1937), as Bill Brock

## Gallery

- ![Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth and Allyn Joslyn in the American film en:Only Angels Have Wings (1939).](https://film.one/media/person/1233691/gallery-ff6a056a86bf.jpg) Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth and Allyn Joslyn in the American film en:Only Angels Have Wings (1939). — Unknown authorUnknown author, distributed by: Columbia Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Only_Angels_Have_Wings_photo_1939.jpg/1280px-Only_Angels_Have_Wings_photo_1939.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Allyn Joslyn](https://film.one/media/person/1233691/gallery-0416b7b8732c.jpg) Allyn Joslyn — Image via TMDB

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