---
name: "Dick Allen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dick-allen"
fi1m_id: "dick-allen"
imdb_id: "nm0020448"
tmdb_id: 1144714
wikidata_id: "Q16017673"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "21 March 1944"
died: "6 February 2007"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T21:58:00.399935+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dick Allen

## Identity

Dick Allen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dick-allen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dick-allen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0020448
- **TMDB ID:** 1144714
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16017673
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Allen_(film_editor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16017673, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0020448/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1144714

Editor. Born 21 March 1944 in England, UK. Died 6 February 2007.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 21 March 1944, England, UK
- **Died:** 6 February 2007
- **Active:** 1981–1991
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Allen_(film_editor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16017673, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0020448/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1144714

## Biography

Dick Allen (1944–2007) was a British film editor who worked for the BBC and as a freelancer. He was educated at Ardingly College in West Sussex and completed an apprenticeship in aeronautical engineering at Vickers in Weybridge before joining the BBC in 1964. He began in the film library and trained as an editor, becoming fully established by 1973.

Allen edited numerous BBC documentary series and prestige television dramas of the 1970s and 1980s. His credits include the 1981 serial *The Day of the Triffids* and the 1991 film *Enchanted April*. He received BAFTA awards for best film editor for *Hotel du Lac* (1986) and *Portrait of a Marriage* (1990). He left the BBC in 1991 and continued freelance work until 1994.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Enchanted April* (1991), Fi1m 65, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/enchanted-april.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *Oliver's Travels* (1995), series, Editor
- *Love on a Branch Line* (1994), series, Editor
- *Adam Bede* (1992), Editor
- *Enchanted April* (1991), Editor — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/enchanted-april.md)
- *Portrait of a Marriage* (1990), series, Editor
- *Hotel du Lac* (1986), Editor
- *Contact* (1985), Editor
- *Shackleton* (1983), series, Editor
- *London Is Drowning* (1981), Editor
- *Fanny by Gaslight* (1981), series, Editor
- *The Day of the Triffids* (1981), series, Editor
- *Fair Stood the Wind for France* (1980), series, Editor
- *Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks* (1979), Editor
- *Don't Be Silly* (1979), Editor
- *Citizen Smith* (1977), series, Editor
- *David Copperfield* (1974), series, Editor

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