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In 1952, he won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Sea Around Us .
Allen's film credits include The Lost World ( 1961), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea( 1961), Five Weeks In a Balloon ( 1962), The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972), The Towering Inferno ( 1974), The Swarm ( 1978) and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure ( 1979).
His television credits include The Swiss Family RobinsonThe Swiss Family Robinson is a novel about a Swiss family who are shipwrecked en route for Australia. Making for an island, they discover and develop all the necessaries for a good life showing incredible resourcefulness in adapting and utilising the isla (1975-76), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-68), The Time TunnelThe Time Tunnel was a 1960s color science fiction TV series produced by Irwin Allen that lasted 30 episodes. It was produced by 20th Century Fox for the US ABC television network. The plot situation was that the US federal government had funded a secret, (1966-67), Lost in SpaceSee also Lost in Space (disambiguation Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series produced between 1965 and 1968 by television producer Irwin Allen. Allen based his space adventure series on a Gold Key comic book, Space Family Robinson as well as the cl (1965-68) and Land of the Giants (1967-70).