Keith Allen

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Keith Howell Charles Allen (born 2 September 1953) is a Welsh actor and television presenter.

He is the father of singer Lily Allen and actor Alfie Allen, as well as actor and director Kevin Allen.

Early life

Allen was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, second of three children of Edward Charles Owen, a Royal Navy petty officer submariner. Kevin Allen, his younger brother, is a comedian. He spent his youth in Swansea and Malta, as well as the majority of his childhood in Gosport, Hampshire, where his father served in Portsmouth. When his father was sent to Singapore, he was sent to board Brentwood School, a public school in Essex, at the age of 11. At the age of 13, he was kicked out of the classroom. After being arrested repeatedly for stealing, he was taken to a borstal, and later said he had a great time" there.

Personal life

Allen, who appeared on Top Gear on December 9, 2007, denied that he had eight children and that he really had six children by four women. Lily Allen and actor Alfie Allen's first wife Alison Owen appear in his children. In 1997, he married Nira Park, his second wife. Allen, who appeared alongside him in Bodies, and the couple had a daughter, Teddie Allen, after his divorce from Park. They live in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Allen and Malleson opened a restaurant in Stroud in 2017, based on Kingman's diner set: The Golden Circle, which Allen recovered after shooting the film.

Allen served a 21-day prison term in Pentonville Prison after being found guilty of criminal harm at the Zanzibar club in Covent Garden in the mid-1980s.

Allen, a stout liberal whose political philosophy was influenced by the Workers' Revolutionary Party's leadership, has expressed grudging respect for Conservative Party leaders David Cameron and William Hague.

Allen has a tattoo of Rinka the dog, which was shot dead during the Jeremy Thorpe shooting. "I had the tattoo on my arm lest I forget," he said, "I had suspicions about the company and the government and court cases."

He is a Fulham Football Club supporter.

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Career

Allen, who had worked as a stagehand before being fired after joining Max Bygraves' chorus line on stage naked, also performed as a stand-up comedian and singer, opening for rock bands such as The Clash.

After being one of the first acts of the Comedy Store in 1979, Allen appeared in a number of films in the series The Comic Strip Presents... on Channel 4 in the 1980s. In the Young Ones episode "Interesting," Allen will appear alongside fellow Comic Strip veterans Pestilence. Allen has appeared in both straight and comedic roles. Allen, Adrian Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders, and Robbie Coltrane were all in 1985 with The Supergrass starring Allen, Adrian Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Robert Duncan, Robbie Coltrane, and Robbie Coltrane, directed by Comic Strip actor Peter Richardson.

He appeared in Comrades, a film about the Tolpuddle Martyrs, in 1986.

He had a regular comedy show on the Galaxy channel during a brief period of British Satellite Broadcasting as an alternative satellite broadcaster to Sky. I Love Keith Allen was a mix of stand-up and sketches. He appeared in Carry On Columbus (1992) as Pepi The Poisoner. It was produced by Gerald Thomas and Peter Rogers, and it was directed by Gerald Thomas.

Allen made a cameo appearance in the black comedy Twin Town, directed by Kevin, on Channel 4's A Very British Coup, and he also appeared as the lodger who dies at the start of Danny Boyle's thriller Shallow Grave (1994). In the same year, he appeared in a BBC adaptation of Martin Chuzzlewit. In Trainspotting (1996), Boyle used him again to be a drug dealer. Allen's character from Trainspotting is the same as that that moves into a shared apartment in Shallow Grave, according to Danny Boyle – he dresses the same clothes and carries the same bag. On 19 July 1996, he decoded himself as a fictional hip-hop star 'Keithski' to attend Top of the Pops.

Allen appeared in two Harold Pinter plays at the Almeida Theatre in 2000, including Lambert in Celebration and Mr Sands in The Room. These were performed at The Lincoln Center Festival in July 2001.

In 2001, he played Jim Napeworth in an episode of Murder in Mind, and in 2004 as Poker-player Dave 'Mouse Ears' Smith. In 2002, Roger Ames played him in 24 Hour Party People, a documentary about Factory Records and the Manchester music scene. In a short tribute to Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining, Allen appeared in Channel 4's Spaced. In Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, opposite Frankie Muniz, he appeared as the villain. Mr Tony Whitman, a sarcastic but also likeable consultant obstetrician with a large ego, appeared in the hospital drama Bodies as Mr Tony Whitman, a sarcastic yet somehow sympathetic consultant obstetrician with a large ego. In 2005, he appeared in the Endemol-produced BBC Two television show Art School alongside Ulrika Jonsson, John Humphrys, and Clarissa Dickson Wright, where he discovered a passion for painting. Allen appeared in the BBC's Robin Hood drama series from 2006 to 2009 as the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Allen has appeared in pantomimes, including an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island in 2008. In the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Ken Ludwig was written by Ken Ludwig and directed by Sean Holmes.

He appeared in the BBC six-part drama series The Body Farm in September 2011. In the United Kingdom, 2012 (2013), Keith played an elderly rock star who finds himself in the public eye after his band member deceived the music industry into releasing them a record contract. In episode 1.5 of the comedy drama series Great Night Out, he played Darren the farmer.

Allen appeared in a revival of Richard Bean's black comedy "Smack Family Robinson," at The Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames in April 2013.

Keith Allen starred serial killer and rapist John Cooper in the ITV 3-part drama The Pembrokeshire Murders in January 2021.

Allen appeared on Television show Whatever You Want in 1982, the beginning of Channel Four's early days, and he has written television documentaries on Victor Lewis-Smith's Associated-Rediffusion Television Productions: Little Lady Fauntleroy (2004), You're Fayed (2005), and King of Chavs (2006). Tourette De France, Georges Gilles de la Tourette's documentary on Channel 4 in 2007, in which he traveled with a group of Scottish people with Tourette syndrome, including John Davidson, was describing the condition in 1884, he moved from London to Parisian hospital, where this illness was first introduced by Georges Gilles de la Tourette in 1884. Red Tape, the British erotic direct-to-video film, was also on display.

Allen will Burn in Hell appeared on Channel 4 in June 2007, showing Allen profiling the tense Westboro Baptist Church led by Fred Phelps and visiting members of the congregation and Phelps' family.

On Good Friday, Allen preached the Manchester Passion, a modern retelling of the last few hours of Jesus' life.

Keith Meets Keith, a television chef who was on Channel 4 in September 2009, was on display in Keith Floyd's absence. Floyd's last television interview was broadcast on the evening, when he died of a heart attack.

Allen's documentary film about Diana, Princess of Wales, Unlawful Killing was supposed to be released in 2011. Mohamed Al-Fayed, the film's sole financial backer, was a contributor to the film's £2.5 million budget. Allen argued in The Guardian that it was a "provable conspiracy" after the disaster. It accuses Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret of being "gangsters in tiaras" and Prince Philip of being a "psychopath." Allen said he would not make the film go into Britain because lawyers were unwilling to make the 87 cuts that had been requested by lawyers. After it was discovered that it would not be seen in the United States because it was impossible to protect it against potential litigation, his film was permanently shelved in 2012.

Allen was a founding member of the London punk band the Atoms, later Fat Les, a band that also included artist Damien Hirst and Blur bassist Alex James.

In 1980, he appeared in Meteor Madness, a short film starring London psychobilly band The Meteors. The film premiered in cinemas as the first to the Two-Tone film Dance Craze, which was released in February 1981. That was the first time Meteor Madness had been seen on television or DVD, and it had never been released on television or DVD.

He was also closely affiliated with the band New Order, directing the footage for the band's 1993 album "Ruined in a Day" depicts Allen and the band members immersed in a strange game of charades with a group of Buddhist monks. He co-wrote "World in Motion," the company's only UK number one song, and they occasionally performed with them live, including their headline show at the Reading Festival in 1998. He appeared on the band's DVD New Order Story, where he appeared in a simulated New Order game show.

In the 1995 hit "Country House" by Blur, Allen appeared as the businessman.

He has worked on several other football-related songs, including "England's Irie" by Black Grape, and he wrote the lyrics for Fat Les' "Vindaloo." He also contributed "On Me Head, Son" to the film Mike Bassett: England Manager, who was also responsible for the soundtrack album to Sporting Les.

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