Edward Allen (actor)
Edward, Ed or Ted Allen may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Edward Alleyn (1566–1626), also written as Edward Allen, Elizabethan actor * Edward L. Allen (1830–1914), American photographer * Ed Allen (musician) (1897–1974), jazz musician * Ed Allen (writer) (born 1948), American short story writer * Ted Allen (Edward R. Allen, born 1965), writer and television personality * Ed Allen (TV host) (born c. 1929), television exercise instructor of the 1960s and 1970s Politics * Edward Allen (Australian politician) (1862–1936), Australian politician and journalist * Edward Allen (Canadian politician) (died 1890), farmer and politician in British Columbia * Edward H. Allen (1830–1895), U.S. politician * Edward M. Allen (died 1907), American politician and businessman in Maryland * Edward N. Allen (1891–1972), American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut * Edward P. Allen (1839–1909), politician from the U.S. state of Michigan Other * Edward Patrick Allen (1 ...
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Edward Alleyn
Edward "Ned" Alleyn (; 1 September 156621 November 1626) was an English actor who was a major figure of the Elizabethan theatre and founder of the College of God's Gift in Dulwich. Early life Alleyn was born on 1 September 1566 in Bishopsgate, London; or so it was recorded in the ''Biographia Britannica'' as a product of Alleyn's own writing. Alleyn does record his birth date in a diary several times but not distinctly identifies his birthplace as Bishopsgate. In the St. Botolph parish registers it is recorded that he was baptized on the day after his birth. He was born a younger son of Edward Alleyn with three brothers named John, William, and Edward. His father was an innkeeper and porter to Queen Elizabeth I and his mother, Margaret Townley, was the daughter of John Townley. His mother's link to the Lancashire Townley family is somewhat of a mystery. Alleyn said she was the daughter of John Townley of Townley but the claim does not easily fit with the available informatio ...
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