Allan Nixon

Allan Hobbs Nixon (August 17, 1915 – April 13, 1995) was an American actor and novelist.

Career Nixon was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1915. He studied journalism the University of Richmond but left college to play football professionally. He was signed to the Washington Redskins but only played in the exhibition season. After a stint with a farm team in Norfolk, Virginia, he wrestled professionally, and then went to New York to become a reporter. Instead, 6'6" and attractive Nixon ended up modeling and was scouted by MGM.

He was drafted during World War II, but his wife, Marie Wilson, saw to it that he was assigned guard duty. Nixon also starred in the sex hygiene film Three Cadets made by the First Motion Picture Unit. Republic Pictures had been interested in putting him in westerns, but this interest had faded by the end of the war. with a review stating that he had played his role with "effective sincerity." He appeared in the play Kitty Doone by Aben Kandel in 1949. He was also on stage in Miranda, You Only Twinkle Once, Rain, School for Scandal, Three Out of Four, and Anna Lucasta; the latter was a touring production in which Ann Dvorak costarred. Nixon appeared on various television shows in the 1950s and early 1960s, including Gunsmoke. this became public knowledge during the Confidential trial in 1957. finding more success as a writer than as an actor. He later reflected on his career as an actor, "Things went wrong, just put it that way. I'm not bitter. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the people I met and the fun I had."

Nixon married three more times. His second marriage, to Alma Hammond, was annulled shortly after it took place in 1954. She died of burns suffered in an explosion later that year. Nixon's fourth wife was Maria Magda. and John Lund, the latter of whom had played Wilson's boyfriend in the My Friend Irma films.

Nixon died of emphysema in 1995.

Partial filmography Three Cadets (1941; sex hygiene short) Rookies on Parade (1942; uncredited) Linda, Be Good (1947) Siren of Atlantis (1949) Prehistoric Women (1950) Pickup (1951) Outlaw Women (1952) Road to Bali (1952; uncredited) Mesa of Lost Women (1953) Untamed Mistress (1956; also uncredited codirector) Apache Warrior (1957) Wall of Noise (1963; uncredited)

Selected novels

Later titled The Star.

As Nick Allen

As Don Romano