Alan Conway

Alan Eddie Conway (10 July 1934 – 5 December 1998) was an English conman known for impersonating film director Stanley Kubrick. Conway and his wife were travel agents with offices in Harrow and Muswell Hill. Early years Alan Conway was born Eddie Alan Jablowsky in Whitechapel, London on 10 July 1934. At age 13, he was sent to a borstal for theft. Around that time that he began changing his name and fabricating personal histories: among other stories, he told people he was a Polish Jew who had been imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.

During the 1980s, Conway left his wife for a male lover, who died of AIDS. Conway's business collapsed due to neglect, and he descended into alcoholism. He turned to crime to support himself.

Conway was tracked down in part through the efforts of Kubrick's personal assistant, Anthony Frewin, who went on to write the screenplay for the film Colour Me Kubrick (2005), starring John Malkovich as Conway.

Conway was interviewed for the 1997 BBC TV series The Lying Game: The Great Pretenders, and was the subject of the 1999 Channel 4 documentary The Man Who Would Be Kubrick.

Conway died of a heart attack on 5 December 1998, three months before Kubrick's own death (also from a heart attack) in March 1999.