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Alex Horn

1929 – 2007

American playwright and actor

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Lived 1929 – 2007 (aged 78). Alex Horn was an American playwright.

Alexander Francis Horn (14 August 1929 – 30 September 2007), known also as Alex Horn, was a playwright, author, and an accused cult leader. According to Rick Alan Ross, the group run by Alex Horn and his wife Sharon Gans, was "one of the most secretive groups [he] encountered.”

Overview Horn and Gans ran the Theatre of All Possibilities until 1978 when the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Progress ran a series of articles accusing the couple of running a cult which abused children, bilked members, and physically abused and verbally abused members. Thereafter, Horn and Gans both left San Francisco and continued to run their groups in New York and Boston, the latter until his death in 2007. Alex Horn had five children with Anne Burrage, Maurice, Elaine, Matthew, Mary Ellen and Benjamin. He died on September 30, 2007.

An article about Alexander Francis Horn, then five years old, appeared in the Chicago Tribune on February 9, 1935. The child Horn was alleged to have spread the alarm for a fire that broke out in his home. 1940 census records show Alexander Horn, aged 10, as an inmate of the Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan Home in Chicago, where he is reported as having lived for the previous five years.

Plays The Fantastic Arising of Padraic Clancy Muldoon Adam King Journey to Jerusalem The Argument The Legend of Sharon Shashonovah The Magician

Books Theatre of All Possibilities Vol 1 San Francisco: Everyman Publications 1978 In Search of a Solar Hero Shaftesbury: Element Books, 1987 Ponderings of a Citizen of the Milky Way Shaftesbury: Element Books, 1987 Top Secret Adam King Publisher EVERYMAN 1970 24th and Mission Streets San Francisco CA 94110 285-9009

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Alexander Francis Horn

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Who was Alex Horn?

American playwright and actor (1929-2007)

When was Alex Horn born?

Alex Horn was born on 14 August 1929 in Chicago.

When did Alex Horn die?

Alex Horn died on 30 September 2007.

What was Alex Horn's occupation?

Alex Horn was a playwright.

What nationality was Alex Horn?

Alex Horn was American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Alex Horn

· Wikidata: Q4717201

· DBpedia: Alex Horn

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