Irwin Allen (born Irwin O. Cohen; June 12, 1916 to November 2, 1991) was an American film and television producer and director, known for his work in science fiction and later, as the Master of Disaster, for the disaster film genre. His most successful productions were The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974), and he also created and produced the 1960s science fiction television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants. The atlas records him as the maker of the documentary The Sea Around Us.
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AwardAcademy Award for Best Documentary Feature 1 Connections
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Source The Sea Around Us (film) (Wikipedia)
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Irwin Allen (born Irwin O. Cohen; June 12, 1916, November 2, 1991) was an American film and television producer and director, known for his work in science fiction, then later as the "Master of Disaster" for his work in the disaster film genre. His most successful productions were The Poseidon
Awards and honors: academy-award-for-best-documentary-feature
It largely used stock footage and won the 1952 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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