Elizabeth Allan (actress)

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Elizabeth Allan (9 April 1908 - 27 July 1990) was an English actress who worked in both the United Kingdom and Hollywood, making about 50 films over more than a quarter century.

She was born at Skegness in Lincolnshire. In 1931 she turned 23 and first appeared in film, in the The Rosary, second-billed behind another actress. She appeared in a further six films that year.

In 1932 she joined Wilfred J. O'Bryen in a marriage that lasted until his death over four decades later.

Her first US/UK co-production and first US production came in 1933. She went onto contract with MGM until 1938, and returned to Britain after that.

Late in her career, she was a frequent panelist on television game shows, including the British version of What's My Line. In the 1950s (and her own 40s) she made her last nine films, culminating in The Haunted Strangler in 1958, starring Boris Karloff where she was billed third.

In 1977, when she was in her late 60s, her husband O'Bryen died. Her own death came at the age of 82, at Hove in East Sussex.