- Tex Allen taught college at three schools: Community College Of Baltimore County (MD), Towson University, and Durham College (Canada). Tex Allen taught movie history at both the Community College Of Baltimore (Maryland USA) and Towson University (Maryland USA) part time for 5 years from 2004 - 2009 for college level senior citizen classes at both the Community College Of Baltimore County Maryland and also Towson University, Towson (Baltimore) Maryland. During this period, he wrote an unpublished book about Maryland movie history from 1898 - 2004 titled "Maryland Movies, Maryland History" (2004) mostly about Hollywood feature movies shot on location in Maryland from silent movie days through the modern era during the 20th century, and famous people part of that. Tex (David) Allen also taught both Public Relations and Journalism at Durham College (Ontario, Canada) in 1976. In addition, he taught special needs students in Washington DC USA public school system (Syphax Elementary School in SW Washington DC) from 1965 - 66. He also taught religious education at St. Joseph's R.C. Church in Lutherville - Timonium, Maryland USA in the early 1990's (Grade Seven level "CCD" or "Confraternity Of Christian Doctrine" Roman Catholic students).
- Tex Allen began work in the movie industry in 1968, and was hired as a regional movie publicist in San Francisco, California USA for Warner Brothers, represented in San Francisco, CA by Jack Wodell Associates Movie Publicity Office. Tex Allen (birth name: David Allen) was hired to promote the world premiere of the movie titled "Bullitt" (1968 Warner Bros.) starring Steve McQueen in 1968 before Tex Allen decided to leave field movie publicity work and begin movie actor work in Hollywood, California in 1970.
- Tex Allen's very first movie actor role occurred when he was 18 years old in 1963. Tex Allen was the unpaid lead actor in an Antioch College Ohio student movie titled "The Easter Parade" (1963 Mike Mideke Films) and played the role of "Jesus In Chicago" filmed wearing a Toga and carrying a 7 foot high cross made of welded beer cans through the "Loop" downtown area of Chicago, Illinois. The black and white movie was 15 minutes long, and used the song titled "Here Comes Peter Cottontail" for the music sound track. It was shot during February 1963 in Chicago, Illinois, and first presented to the Antioch College Ohio student body in the school's main auditorium during April 1963.
- Tex Allen obtained paid movie actor work in a 1970 UCLA student movie which occurred during June 1970 in Los Angeles, California. Tex Allen portrayed a television cameraman operating a camera in a large TV broadcast studio as part of a UCLA student film made on the campus of UCLA (the University Of California at Los Angeles). Tex Allen was paid $5. for an entire day's work.
- Tex Allen (birth name: David Roger Allen) presently (2016) resides in the town of Columbia (Lancaster County), Pennsylvania USA.
- Beginning May 7, 2014, Tex Allen retired completely from movie acting. He continues SAG/AFTRA union membership, and has applied for and been granted Honorable Withdrawal status by the union national headquarters.
- Education: Master's Degree 1989 in Library Science (Honors) University of Maryland (Elected to Beta Phi Mu International Library Science Honor Society, often called the "Phi Beta Kappa of Library Science")., Undergraduate Schools: University of Virginia (Dean's List Of Distinguished Students), Antioch College Ohio (Bachelor's Degree in Education).
- David Allen served in the U.S. Army after being drafted in 1966 during the Vietnam war Era, and was trained at. Fort Sam Houston, Texas as a combat medic (U.S. Army Occupational Specialty # 91A10). He was a Conscientious Objector in uniform, was promoted early due to outstanding performance during U.S. Army Basic Training, and received an Honorable Discharge when he completed his U.S. Army service.
1,354 men who served as combat medics during the Vietnam War era died, including many Conscientious Objectors in uniform who served. 15 combat medics were awarded the Congressional Medal Of Honor. 8 of these awards were posthumous.
David (Tex) Allen's Military Service (served using the family name "David Cudd," changed legally from his birth surname, "Allen" the day he went into the US Army in 1966, and changed BACK to "Allen" legally in 1967.
He was drafted as "David Allen," presented his "change of name" legal documents from the State Of Maryland on the day he was inducted into the US Army in June 1966, entered the US Army as "Private E-1 David Cudd," and was discharged Honorably (decorated with a Nat. Defense Medal) with a "DD-214" DOD Military Discharge document under the name "Private E-2 David Cudd." His name change back to "Allen" in 1967 took place in New York State where he lived after his US Army 1966 discharge. Details of his Military Service: Vietnam War Era Veteran (1960's) ..U.S. Army Combat Medic, National Defense Service Medal, Honorable Discharge. He was drafted into military service in June 1966 at age 22. He was a conscientious objector and become a conscientious objector (in uniform) combat medic trained in a special conscientious objector training unit located at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. He completed basic training there in the top ten per cent of his class, and was promoted early from Private E-1 to Private E-2 before entering advanced training for combat medic specialty work (Military Occupational Specialty # 91 A 10). On October 21, 2017, David (Tex) Allen was awarded a 50th Anniversary Vietnam Veteran Lapel Pin at an official public ceremony in Lancaster, PA USA held at Hempfield High School Performing Arts Center. U.S. Air Force 4 Star General William T. (Tom) Hobbins personally pinned the award pin onto Tex Allen's lapel during the ceremony. The event was authorized by Public Law 110-181 SEC 598: the National Defense Authorization Act which authorized the Secretary Of Defense to conduct a program to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War and to award Vietnam Veteran Lapel Pins to those who served in the USA Military during the Vietnam War Era (1955 - 1975). - Detailed biographical profile available (includes 23 generations of ancestors over a 600 year period, and also a list of 70 celebrity relatives) of Tex Allen (birth name: David R. Allen) by visiting WWW.Google.Com and using "David R. Allen WikiTree.Com" as search terms.
- Tex Allen (birth name: David Roger Allen) entered the eighth decade of his life in January 2014. He entered his seventy third year in 2016.
- He was a U.S. Army Combat Medic in the Vietnam War Era.
- Tex Allen's daily retirement schedule consists of 25 daily events, including 15 health events and 6 - 9 culture events (varies), which computes to a yearly grand total of roughly 8,500 events. These 25 daily events are intended to support the accomplishment of 12 Life Goals. The 12 Life Goals Tex (David) Allen seeks to achieve include: 1. Happiness 2. Contentment 3. Health (Measured 4 Ways) 4. Comfort 5. Leisure 6. Culture 7. Elegance 8. Mobility 9. Help From Others 10. Money Stability 11. Realistic, Street-Smart, Logical, Philosophical, Well Reasoned, Open Minded Thinking. 12. Living Space adequate for individual comfort and personal growth and functioning (also called "Proximics Living Space," also called "1905 non-political Lebensraum") meant to avoid the phenomenon of "behavioral sink," which occurs due to crowding and inadequate room for living and functioning.
- Tex (David) Allen studied singing, and also piano playing in the 1950's (classical and popular...4 years study of Marshall Anders of Baltimore MD USA), guitar in the 1960's (classical guitar study with John Quakenbush of San Francisco, CA USA, and self study for folk music guitar first using a Pete Seegar authored "How To Play The Guitar" book), and ukulele in the 2010's (self taught starting at age 70 in 2014). He also was a member of multi-part choirs starting at age 9 in 1953 at Northwood Elementary School, Baltimore, Maryland USA (Mrs. Mildred Rydberg, Choir Director), then at age 11 in 1955 at Woodbourne Junior High School (later name changed to Chinquepin Middle School), Baltimore, Maryland USA (Mrs. Jean Eglesider, Choir Director), and finally at age 15 in 1959 at the Baltimore City College (Public High School), Baltimore, Maryland USA (Mr. Trygve Rydberg and Mr. Sidney Wechsler, Choir Directors). He sang at age 17 as a baritone singer with the Baltimore, Maryland USA Symphony Orchestra Opera Program, including opera chorus singing from Bizet's Carmen opera, and Verdi's La Traviata opera. He was in each of the three choirs 2 years for a total of 6 years of extensive, rigorous choral singing and vocal chord buildup activity. He ended up with a very strong and resonant ("radio announcer type") voice which was useful and important in professional stage and movie actor work and also music public entertainment work he did during his adult years before he retired in 2014 at age 70, after which he continued to sing 30 songs daily accompanied by one of his two ukuleles (called the world's "easiest to learn instrument" by the Grove Dictionary Of Music in the "Ukulele" article). He was a musical entertainer at Antioch College Ohio during the early 1960's, and provided frequent solo singing performances and also group singing leadership for students during his college undergraduate years.
- Tex (David) Allen is the father of one child, a son named Timothy Nicholas Allen, born during Tex Allen's 2nd marriage (1976 - 1978) to Kathleen Anne Welsch (1951 St. Paul Minnesota USA - ). The boy's mother left Tex Allen and her marriage to him three months after her wedding in 1976 while she was pregnant with her son, and never returned to the marriage. She raised the son alone and permitted no contact or visitation from his birth father, Tex (David) Allen. She instructed her son to refuse and ignore all contact efforts from his birth father (Tex David Allen), and the heartless and arrogant son remained obedient to his mother by breaking the Fourth Commandment Honor Thy Father for many decades, never replied to many contact and/or visitation proposal efforts Tex (David) Allen attempted up to Father's Day, June 2016, when Timothy Nicholas Allen was 39 years old and Tex (David) Allen was 72. The only time father and son were together was a brief meeting requested and arranged by the son's paternal grandparents (Foy Allen 1911 - 2003 and Dorothy Hopppman Allen 1910 - 2005) in 1977, which meeting occurred on Mother's Day, May 1977, and lasted about 20 minutes. No other visitations were permitted by Kathleen Anne Welsch Allen (later Mrs. Craig Locke) after that.
"Tex" Allen's son, Timothy Nicholas Allen (born 1977 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada - ) speaks four European languages fluently, including English, and is a graduate of both the International (High) School of Luxembourg (also the alma mater of His Royal Highness Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg, Prince of Nassau, born in 1992) and the State University of New York at Buffalo NY. Timothy Nicholas Allen is the current (2015) owner of Western New York Sky Diving in Erie County New York USA, located near Buffalo, NY USA. He is (2016) a registered, licensed pilot and also a registered licensed parachute rigger (three categories: "back," "chest," and "seat.") in Alden NY USA. He is also rated as a "DZO" and achieved other skydiving related credentials. He teaches skydiving, made his first skydive in Mexico during his college years in the 1990's, has made more than 2000 "skydive jumps" since then, and also works as a videotape cameraman during skydive jumps made by skydive student and other customers of Western New York State Sky Diving (WWW.WNYSkyDiving.Com). His wife is Kristen Aducci Allen, a Buffalo, NY USA personal injury specialist lawyer presently working (2015) for Lewis And Lewis Law Firm in Buffalo, NY USA. Kristen Allen is also a skydiver who became nationally famous (reported by Fox News) in June 2009 due to a failed night time skydive effort (she missed and "overshot" her landing target) in Orleans County New York USA (near Rochester NY USA) which she survived with only a minor injury (a broken nose). The skydiving couple currently (2015) live in Erie County NY USA, and are parents of David ("Tex") Allen's only grandson. - Tex (David) Allen produced a low budget, drive-in movie exploitation/horror movie in 1969 titled "Diamond Ring Of Satan," and held a presentation for potential investors at Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Movie Studio in San Francisco, California USA to explain the movie project to potential money investors.
- Tex (birth name: "David") Allen worked with Don Simpson (1943 - 1996) in San Francisco CA USA at the Jack Wodell Associates Movie Publicity And Advertising Agency during 1969 and 1970 when both men were employed as regional field publicists and event planners for Warner Brothers, Universal, Paramount, and other movie studios marketing movies in the San Francisco CA Bay Area. Don Simpson (1943 - 1996) was hired 4 months after David Allen by Jack Wodell Associates Agency and this regional publicity work was his first employment in the movie industry. He later re-located to Hollywood CA USA and became head of movie production at Paramount Studios, and then partnered with Jerry Bruckheimer as an independent film producer of block-buster movies in the 1980s, including Beverly Hills Cop, Flashdance, and Top Gun. He became a famous millionaire movie producer, and died at age 52 of heart attack. A biography about Don Simpson titled High Concept: Don Simpson And The Hollywood Culture Of Excess by Charles Fleming was published in 1998 and became a best seller book about life in Hollywood among movie producers in the 1980's and 1990's.
- Tex (birthname: "David") Allen worked twice as a stand-up comedian entertaining audiences attending performances of exotic (aka: "striptease") dancers. In 1984, he worked at the "Palace Theatre" in Pittsburgh, PA USA, formerly a "motion picture palace" during the "Golden Age Of Hollywood" in the 1920's and 1930's which became a venue in the middle 1980's featuring high quality "exotic" (female) dancers in a setting often attended by high level executives from major Pittsburgh, PA USA business organizations (Aluminum Company Of America, Melon Bank, U.S. Steel, etc.) Tex (birthname: "David") Allen later worked as a stand-up comedian/dancer entertainer at "Mint's Nightclub" located in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (near Niagara Falls, New York USA) in 1986 and 1987, and was the featured headline act there for two months in late 1986 until he was promoted to work as manager at "Mint's Nightclub" reporting to then club owner Humberto Varilla until he quit work at "Mint's" completely in Spring of 1987.
- Studied movie acting in Hollywood CA USA in 1970 - 71 at the CEC Studios headed by Charles Erich Conrad. In addition, he also studied acting with Jack Waltzer in Hollywood in 1970. During his teen years in the 1950's, he also studied stage acting with John Desch and Ross LaPorta during his high school years, as well as informal actor lessons from early youth provided by his two private detective parents, Foy Allen (1911 - 2013) and Dorothy Hoppman Allen (1910 - 2005), both of whom were talented actors and dance performers.
- Tex (birth name: "David") Allen engaged in health care and education work for handicapped and needy persons. He was a child care worker in 1963 and 1964 at the Clearwater Ranch Children's House in Philo, CA USA, and also worked in 1964 as a hospital aide at the Yale University Medical School's "Yale Psychiatric Institute" training hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. He later worked in 1965 and 1966 for the Washington D.C. public school system as a full time Special Education teacher for grade 1 - grade 3 level handicapped children at the Syphax School in S.W. Washington D.C. He worked from 1966 to 1968 in the New York City, New York USA Welfare Department (also known as the "NYC Social Services Dept.") as a "Welfare Eligibility Investigator Caseworker" in three different NYC boroughs including the Bronx, Manhattan, and finally Brooklyn where he was assigned to a special caseload of recently released prison convicts and ex-prostitutes. In 1971, Tex Allen worked as volunteer Assistant Medical Administrator at the Los Angeles (California USA) Free Clinic. During 1984, Tex (birth name: "David") Allen worked in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the downtown "Our Place" care center for handicapped persons with limited income living on Canadian government support pensions. "Our Place" was a day care and early evening center available to handicapped persons housed and fed with government help, but with no money for recreation or daytime leisure support. "Our Place" was paid for and operated by the Roman Catholic Church Franciscan Capuchin religious order, supervised by a Catholic priest (Father Joseph MacDonald, a Franciscan Capuchin priest) and a nun, and assisted by unpaid civilian volunteers. Tex (David) Allen was one of the volunteer workers in 1984. Tex (birth name: David) Allen also served as a U.S. Fed. Govt. Dept. of Commerce Census Worker during the 2000 "Special Populations" census in Baltimore County, Maryland USA, visiting and gathering information about handicapped persons housed in "Group Homes.".
- Received extensive music training during the 1950's in piano, trombone, guitar, ukulele, voice, and dancing, as well as taking part in numerous choral singing groups.
- Tex (birth name: David) Allen, B.A. Antioch College Ohio (1966) studied "Mass Media: Films And Television" with "Twilight Zone" T.V. dramatic series creator Rod Serling, B.A. Antioch College Ohio (1950) in Fall of 1962 when Allen was 18 years old and Serling was 37 years old. Rod Serling returned to his alma mater, Antioch College Ohio, to teach writing and mass media in 1962. He gave Tex (David) Allen a "B" grade for the "Mass Media" course, and later helped Tex (David) Allen in Hollywood, California USA in 1970 when Tex Allen first arrived in Hollywood to begin work as a paid movie actor for major Hollywood studio theatrical and T.V. drama productions.
- Tex (David) Allen began his performing arts career at age 9 in 1953 in Baltimore, Maryland USA when he worked as a choral singer in a multi-part choral group organized by Mrs. Mildred Rydberg of Baltimore, Maryland USA.
- Tex Allen also studied acting with Jack Waltzer in Hollywood, CA in 1970 (Waltzer also taught Dustin Hoffman, Sigourney Weaver, and Dennis Quaid). [For more details about Jack Waltzer, visit WWW.JackWaltzer.Com].
- Both of Tex Allen's parents (Foy Ray Allen 1911 - 2003) and Dorothy Hoppman Allen (1910 - 2005) were licensed private detectives for more than 30 years in Maryland USA. Tex Allen grew up in a "law enforcement" and "investigtion" household in Baltimore, Maryland USA. He observed his parents work during his upbringing, and this informed his actor work in police, law enforcement theme, and government investigation drama movies. Tex Allen's parents founded the Master Detective Agency (later "Master Security Inc.") in 1956 in Baltimore, Maryland USA when Tex Allen was 12 years old. It still (2015) operates in Maryland and other USA states. His other police relatives include his great-grandfather, Henry Clay Allen (1857 - 1946), a "Texas Ranger" in Texas USA during the 1880's.
- Tex (Birth Name: "David Roger") Allen became a member of the Roman Catholic Church after he was baptized in February 1944 (3 weeks after his birth) at Our Lady Queen Of Martyrs Roman Catholic Parish Church (New York City, NY USA Archdiocese) located on Queens Boulevard, Queens (borough or sub-section), New York City, New York USA. He received the sacrament of Confirmation into the Roman Catholic Church in 1957 at St. Matthews Roman Catholic Church located on Loch Raven Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland USA. His "confirmation name" was "James." Baltimore, Maryland USA Archdiocese Roman Catholic Archbishop Francis Keough performed the Confirmation ceremony. Tex (David) Allen was married to Kathleen Anne Welsch of Tonawanda, New York in 1976 in a Roman Catholic marriage ceremony performed by Father George Clody of the Buffalo, New York USA Roman Catholic Archdiocese at St. Christopher's Shrine R.C. Parish Church located on Niagara Boulevard in North Tonawanda, New York USA. That marriage was declared "annulled" by the Marriage Tribunal of the Buffalo, New York Roman Archdiocese in February of 1977, and both Tex (David) Allen and Kathleen Welsch were declared by the Marriage Tribunal "free to marry" (again) in the Roman Catholic Church. Tex (birth name: David) never again engaged in a Roman Catholic marriage ceremony, but Kathleen Anne Welsch married in 1980 in a Roman Catholic ceremony to Mr. Craig Locke of Erie County, New York, who was an employee of Kathleen Welsch's father's business (Dynabrade, Inc. of Clarence, New York, a portable power tool manufacturing company founded in 1965 by Walter Welsch, Kathleen Welsch's father), and who (Craig Locke) later became President of his father in law's company, fathered 3 children with Kathleen Welsch, and supervised the upbringing of Timothy Nicholas Allen, child of Tex (David) Allen and Kathleen Welsch, born March 27, 1977, who was conceived in 1976 before the marriage was declared "annulled" in 1977. Mr. Craig Locke and Mrs. Kathleen Welsch Locke continued to live together in Erie County, New York USA (near Buffalo, NY USA) until 2015 and beyond. Tex (David) Allen did not continue active membership in the Roman Catholic Church following his Roman Catholic Church marriage annulment declaration in 1977. He never left the Roman Catholic Church nor was he ever removed from it by the Roman Catholic authorities, and thus remains (2016) a nominal member, though not an active one.
- Tex (David) Allen's education before entering college: Baltimore City (Maryland USA) public schools (1949 - 1961). Elected to the National (High School) Honor Society at Baltimore City College (High) school 1960.
- Tex (David) Allen studied classic Catholic theatre in 1959 with Father Ross LaPorta (who was also a playwright and one-act play director) emphasizing stagecraft, acting, and Catholic theatre subject matter during visits from Baltimore, Maryland USA (where Tex David Allen grew up) to the Harkness Theatre located at Catholic University Of America, Washington DC USA.
- He attended the University Of Virginia, Entered in 1961 with the Class Of 1965. Dean's List Of Distinguished Students. Attended 50th reunion of the UVA Class Of 1965 in 2015. Elected to the Thomas Jefferson Society 2015.
- Following Tex (David) Allen's 2014 retirement at age 70, he designed and pursued a Daily Retirement Events Schedule consisting of 15 Daily Health Events (including sleep and non-sleep daily scheduled rest events, and also careful weight control), and 6 to 11 (varies) Daily Culture Events (music, reading, song, dance, movies, etc.) meant to provide a healthy and interesting old age life for him..
- Tex (David) Allen's father (Foy Ray Allen 1911 - 2003) was born in Texas, and his great-grandfather, Henry Clay Allen (1857 - 1946) was both an Old Chisholm Trail drover cowboy in his teens in the 1870's, and also a Texas Ranger in the 1880's who rode with Captain Ira Long, and is listed in Texas Ranger member lists published by various historical groups.
Henry Clay Allen's father, Thomas Allen (1832 - 1900) was a Confederate Civil War cavalry soldier veteran from Decatur, Wise County, Texas, part of "Darnell's Regiment," all of whom were Confederate cavalry soldiers recruited from Wise County, Texas.
Thomas Allen served in the Civil War from 1862 - 1865, was twice a prisoner of war, once incarcerated in Springfield, Ohio POW Camp, and incarcerated a second time following the Battle Of Atlanta, GA in 1864.
Thomas Allen was released after the war ended in 1865, and returned to his home in Texas following an overland trip, partly on foot and partly on a mule.
The return trip from Georgia to Texas after the Civil War ended lasted three months and ended in Fall 1865.
His son, Henry Clay Allen (1857 - 1946) was 8 years old when his father returned from service in the Civil War unexpectedly on a rainy night in October 1865.
The Allen family lived in Texas for about 100 years after first arriving there in 1834.
Before that, the Allens lived in New Kent County, Virginia up to the 1790's.
The first Allen (part of Tex David Allen's family) to live in Virginia was Rev. Richard Alleyne IV (1613 Canterbury England - 1690 New Kent County, Virginia)...... (named later simplified to "Allen").... who arrived in Virginia from Canterbury, Kent County, England.
He first settled in Northampton County, Virginia in 1645 and later was a founding member of the New Kent County VA community when it began in 1654.
Rev. Richard Alleyne IV (1613 - 1690) was an Oxford University graduate (Corpus Christi College, Oxford U.), one of the first in Virginia and the New World, and was also an ordained Church Of England clergyman.
Rev. Alleyne's father, Rev. Dr. Richard Alleyn III (1572 Lincoln England - 1651 Stowting, Kent County, England), was also an Oxford U. (Corpus Christi College) graduate who earned 4 degrees there, was a specialist in ancient languages, and helped translate the King James Bible of 1611 after completing his Oxford U. doctoral degree (Corpus Christi College) in 1608.
He later became rector of St. Mildred's Church in Canterbury, Kent County, England after graduation from Oxford U. and died in 1651 in Kent County, England.
Both of the Alleyne (Allen) 17th century clergymen (both father and son, "Richard Alleyne III," and "Richard Alleyne IV") attended Winchester College boarding high school for boys in Winchester, Hampshire County, England before entering Oxford University to prepare for university studies..
Two of his sons emigrated to British colonies, one to Virginia in the future USA (Rev. Richard Alleyne IV [1613 - 1690]), and one to Barbados in 1630 (Colonel Reynold Alleyne [1609 - 1651]) .....Colonel Reynold Alleyne was part of the 1630 group of English emigrants who set up an English colony on that island when it was completely uninhabited.
The group which arrived in 1630 from England were the "founding fathers" of Barbados.
He lived in a house overlooking Maxwell's Bay near Bridgetown, Barbados, on the southern part of the island, and his house remains an important historical location Barbados to this day (2016). Mount Alleyne in Barbados is also named for him.
His direct descendant (his great-great-grandson, Sir John Gay Alleyne (1724 - 1801), First Baronet Of Barbados, was created a Baronet in 1759, and served as the Chief Justice of the Barbados Supreme Court. - Tex (David) Allen's maternal great-grandfather, Henry Hoppman, Senior (1837 - 1934), emigrated from Hanover, Germany to the USA in 1855 and served as a young man during the Civil War as a soldier for the Union army.
After the Civil War, he worked for the New York Central Railroad, and rose to become the Chief Locomotive Engineer (who supervised all the engine drivers working for the New York Central Railroad).
He drove the railroad engine in 1893 in western upstate New York USA which broke the 19th century land speed record for the world near Buffalo, New York, USA and achieved the speed of 113 miles per hour, a record which was cited in the Guiness Book Of World Records for many decades.
He was an important leader in the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers for many years, and made his home in Schenectady, New York USA where he died in 1934 at the age of 97 years. His granddaughter, Dorothy Emmeline Hoppman Allen (1910 - 2004), Tex (David) Allen's mother, lived to her 95th year, and outlived her husband, Foy Ray Allen (1911 - 2003), Tex (David) Allen's father, by 20 months. . - Tex (David) Allen's U.S. Army service number during the Vietnam War Era when he served as a decorated, honorably discharged Combat Medic was US - 51 - 662 - 516.
- Tex Allen began paid movie actor work in 1970 in Hollywood, CA USA. He had been the lead actor in a short student movie at Antioch College Ohio (the movie was made in Chicago, IL in 1963 and was titled "The Easter Parade" with 18 year old Tex Allen playing the role of "Jesus In Chicago"), but the work he did was unpaid. It took 7 years from 1963 to 1970 for him to get his first movie actor paycheck......$5 for the day working as a background actor in a UCLA student movie where Tex Allen played a TV studios cameraman. Tex Allen arrived in Hollywood CA USA after two years work in San Francisco, CA USA as a regional movie publicist for Warner Brothers studios and 10 other Hollywood movie studios....all movie advertising and publicity clients of Jack Wodell Associates Ad and PR Agency, San Francisco's biggest and most important movie and PR agency. Tex Allen was 26 when he first arrived in Holllywood in April 1970....a beginner Hollywood movie actor who started out working at background actor jobs for UCLA student movies, and living in the sleaziest part of East Hollywood in a rooming house on North Wilton Place, half a block from Hollywood Blvd., and two blocks from Western Ave., where Los Angeles City meets Hollywood ("Western Ave." refers to the westernmost part of L.A......Hollywood, the town, is west of that, and the Pacific Ocean is even further west with Beverly Hills, Brentwood, and Pacific Palisades stuck in the middle!).
- Treva Silverman (1936 - ), creator and head writer in 1970 of the Mary Tyler Moore TV series, became a good friend of Tex Allen in 1970, arranged for him to get an audition for a big movie about a famous Jewish comic, Lenny Bruce, who died of a drug overdose. Tex Allen wasn't the type (he was and is a blue eyed WASP leading man, romantic lead type.......nobody made movies about people like him in the counterculture late 1960's and early 1970's), and Dustin Hoffman ended up getting the part.
The movie was titled LENNY (1971) and became a big hit.
Lenny Bruce grew up in strip tease night clubs and became a comic famous later for using dirty words in his act, and getting arrested for his trouble. He became famous and a cultural symbol for free speech in night clubs, etc.
Ironically, Tex Allen ended up actually working as a stand up comic in strip tease "burlesque" type night clubs in Pittsburgh, PA and Niagara Falls, Canada in the 1980's......15 years later. - Tex (David) Allen's music study and training includes study with Seth Riggs, famous and noted vocal training/ singing coach in Hollywood, California (1970), and also piano composition study and training at the Julliard School Of Music in New York City, New York with two noted composition teachers and composers serving on the Julliard faculty in 1967: Vincent Persechetti and Elliot Carter.
- Tex (David) Allen won three financial academic scholarships to three top USA higher education schools in 1961 including Johns Hopkins University, Antioch College Ohio, and the University Of Virginia. He accepted the scholarship honor to the University Of Virginia, and entered that school in Fall 1961. He was named to the University Of Virginia Dean's List Of Distinguished Students at the end of his first semester.
- The birth name of "Tex Allen" is David Roger Allen. He chose the professional actor name "Tex Allen" when he first joined the Screen Actors Guild to honor his father and ancestors who lived in and were born in Texas from the time the Allen family lived since 1834 when Jeremiah Allen emigrated to Texas from Tennessee to join the Texas Revolution movement which resulted in Texas' political independence from Mexico in 1836 and in the union of Texas with the United States Of America in 1845. The Allen family descended from Jeremiah Allen who arrived in Texas in 1834 continued to live in Texas for generations until Tex Allen's father, Foy Ray Allen (1911 - 2003) left Texas at age 16 in 1927 to live in New York City where his only son, David Roger Allen (Tex Allen) was born in 1944. Allens who lived in Texas between 1834 and 1927 fought successfully in the Texas War Against Mexico of 1836, the USA Mexican War of 1848, the Civil War (Allens fought for the Confederate States Of America in the Darnell Regiment Horse Cavelry Division of Wise County Texas), as Texas Rangers (the de-facto volunteer state police force of Texas in the 19th Century and later), and as USA soldiers during World War I. Tex Allen was the first member of the Allen family from which he descended to be born north of the Mason-Dixon Line since the Allen family Tex Allen descended from first arrived in Northampton County Virginia in 1645 led by Rev. Richard Alleyne IV (a Church Of England clergyman) as immigrants from England. Prior to Foy Allen's move to New York City in 1927, the Allen family had lived in the South, mostly in Virginia (1645 - 1795) and in Texas (1834 - 1927), and also in North Carolina and Tennessee in the period between 1795 and 1834.
- Tex (David) Allen worked as Maitre De' (Host) at the Blues Alley jazz nightclub and restaurant in Washington, DC in 1974 and 1975. The Georgetown (Washington. D.C.) nightclub was a famous performing venue for well known jazz music artists including Helen Humes, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Joe Venuti, and many other notable artists. Tex Allen learned a lot about traveling performing artists at the Blues Alley nightclub and restaurant.
- Tex (David) Allen worked during his twenties and thirties (1964 - 84) as a professional public relations manager and consultant for many large private for-profit corporate organizations, and also for large non-profit corporations. His work included producing, directing, and script writing for documentary informational films supporting the mission of organizations which employed him. In 1974, Tex (David) Allen was hired as domestic public relations manager for Baltimore, Maryland USA's Commercial Credit Company (later re-named "PrimeAmerica") for the purpose of supervising public relations projects for the 18 domestic subsidiary companies owned by Commercial Credit Company (then owned by Control Data [Super-Computer] Corporation of Minnesota). Tex (David) Allen produced an expensive 16 mm industrial informational film for Commercial Credit Company titled "The Road Ahead" (1974) which explained possible future money lending techniques to support businesses and individuals (money lending was the main business of Commercial Credit Company at that time). The film was shown all over the USA at special Commercial Credit Company sponsored meetings usually held at large hotel ballrooms. Commercial Credit Company major customers were invited and the customers were invited to bring VIP's important to customer business. It was an important and early use of professionally made sound movies to support financial and money-lending organizations.
- The very first amateur movie Tex (David) Allen acted in was a 1952 improvised color 8 mm film photographed and directed by Foy Ray Allen (1911 - 2003), Tex Allen's race track detective movie enthusiast father, photographed at Pikes Peak Colorado's grave site memorial to Buffalo Bill Cody (located near Colorado Springs, Colorado). Tex Allen's family was on a 1952 summer holiday during the visit to the summit of Pike's Peak in 1952. Tex Allen engaged in an improvised "Master Of Ceremonies" actor performance role (at age 8 in 1952) scripted and directed by his father, Foy Allen, who was working at the time as a Throughbred Racing Association accredited race track plain clothes detective in Littleton (Denver), Colorado during the summer of 1952. Tex Allen's father, Foy Allen, was employed Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau (also called "the FBI of horse racing), a subsidiary of the national Thoroughbred Racing Association, then headquartered in New York City (Manhattan), NY USA..
Tex Allen was 8 years old in 1952, the same age as 8 year old actress Tatum O'Neil was 20 years later in 1972 when she performed her famous Academy Award winning role as "Addie Prey" in Paper Moon (1972) directed and written by Peter Bagdonovich. - Tex (David) Allen wrote an unpublished autobiographical book in 1966 following difficulties with the Dean Of Students (Mr. J.D. Dawson) at Antioch College Ohio where Tex (David) Allen was an undergraduate student until he was awarded a Bachelor Of Arts in Education degree in June 1966. The autobiographical unpublished book was titled THE FOLK SONG ARMY (1966) and described the counterculture revolution of the middle 1960's at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, then a famous left-wing, radical counterculture school. Tex (David) Allen got disgusted with what he felt were wrong values and phony claims to virtue adopted by most of the Antioch College Ohio students of the middle 1960's. The book was a put down of left-wing counterculture claims and values. In the book (only one print manuscript copy existed, and that bound manuscript was passed around the campus and many Antioch students read it with great interest), Tex (David) Allen announced he had decided to become a Republican Party supporter and member, and would vote in the next USA Presidential election for the chosen Republican party Presidential candidate. He voted for Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew in 1968, and joined the Young Republicans Of San Francisco CA USA Club in 1969. In 1970, he was a candidate for the post of President of the San Francisco Young Republican, and remained a lifelong conservative USA Republican party member..
- Tex (David) Allen wrote and directed a 1996 half hour natural history documentary video film about the Gunpowder Falls River which originates in northwestern Baltimore County Maryland USA and flows southeast through Harford County Maryland USA to the town of Joppa, Maryland where the Gunpowder Falls River flows into and joins the northern section of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay.
The Gunpowder Falls River documentary traces the origins of the river as a tiny stream originating in Maryland farm fields, and increasing in size and volume as it flows east until it becomes navigable and suitable for boat travel. - Tex (David) Allen had a brief career as a librarian, library manager, and library consultant. He earned a Master's Degree in Library Science from the University Of Maryland USA Graduate Library School in 1989 (name later changed to the U. of MD. "ISchool" or "Information School"). His faculty adviser and mentor at the University Of Maryland was Dr. Frank Burke, who had previously served as Acting Archivist Of The United States overseeing all USA National Archives operations and personnel. During his two years of graduate Library Science studies, Tex (David) Allen engaged in paid consultant work for non-profit associations in the Washington D.C. area including the "ISI" (an association of research scientists) and "FARM" (an initialism for the "Farm Animal Reform Movement" animal rights non-profit organization). He completed a half year internship at the Library Of Congress Manuscripts Division, and also spent time at the Library Of Congress Films And Motion Picture Division, and also the Library Of Congress Local History Division. He was elected to Beta Phi Mu International Library Science Honor Society (often called the "Phi Beta Kappa" of Library Science) when his Master's Degree was awarded in 1989, and soon after graduation hired by the U.S. Federal Government Treasury Department Bureau Of Engraving And Printing to become the Library Director of the Research Library supporting the Engraving And Printing Bureau Paper Chemistry scientists working in 1989 with the Treasury Dept. office of Advance Counterfeit Deterrance to end problems caused by then newly available color photo copiers printing counterfeit currency bills (old time "green only" money was changed in 1989 and later to include multi-colored bills and new graphic images to help prevent counterfeiting activity). After he left the US Treasury Dept. Research Library directorship, he was hired by the then largest suburban public library in the USA (the Baltimore County Maryland USA public library system ...... which then had the largest circulation of any suburban library system in the USA) for both reference and research library work at the main HQ branch in Towson (suburban Baltimore City MD USA) Maryland USA. Following his work at the Baltimore County MD USA Public Library System, he returned to library consultant work and designed a detailed plan and program for the establishment of a special information library at the then newly built HQ for the Baltimore Association For Retarded Citizens (aka "BARC") non-profit organization. He later moved to his family's 50 acre farm and country estate in northern Baltimore County, Maryland (Freeland MD USA), which farm and estate he manged for 13 years from 1993 - 2006. While there, he set up a roughly 3,000 book Volunteer Rural Public Library set up in the large main Manor House part of the estate, and made up of donated books from the Community College Of Baltimore County (Maryland USA) libraries and also from individual philanthropist donors. He operated the entire library for roughly 10 years by himself, without help, and without financial backing or compensation of any kind. During this same period, he also taught college level classes for Senior Citizens as an Adjunct Professor teaching movie history courses all over Baltimore County Maryland at various teaching site locations for about 5 years, at the conclusion of which he was awarded a special citation certificate for Excellence In Teaching at the CCBC college system. One of his students was Dr. Robert Jones, retired head of the Baltimore City Maryland Public Schools Mathematics Dept. (supervising all math teachers city wide in Baltimore MD USA), who commented that Tex (David) Allen's teaching was "the best organized teaching effort he (Dr. Jones) had ever seen.".
- Tex (David) Allen wrote, directed, and starred in a one act play titled THE SOCIAL WORKER (1970) which was presented one time in the summer of 1970 at the Evergreen Playhouse Theatre located in Hollywood, California USA on Santa Monica Blvd. near Western Avenue. The play co-starred Tex Allen's then girlfriend, Julie (Goldsmith) Gilbert, who also starred in a UCLA Film School Spring 1970 short film titled RSVP which co-starred Austin Kelly (later known for actor work in NO WAY OUT 1977 starring Kevin Costner.) Julie (Goldsmith) Gilbert went on to write several best selling Random House Publishing Company books, including a coming of age in New York City novel titled UMBRELLA STEPS (1972), and several non-fiction books (one was a biography about Julie Gilbert's great-aunt, Edna Ferber, whose estate Julie Gilbert Goldsmith managed decades later, and one was about 1930's era movie star Paulette Goddard and Erich Maria Remarque, author of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT). THE SOCIAL WORKER PLAY (1970), written by, directed, and starring Tex (David) Allen, was well received at the Evergreen Playhouse Theatre which was in 1970 a famous "try out" location for upcoming Hollywood actors and playwrights. Rob Reiner and his then partner, Phil Mishkin, wrote and presented a one act play there starring then very young Rob Reiner titled THE HOWIE WRIGHT STORY (1970) loosely based on the famous Danny Kaye comedy movie titled THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MIDDY (1940'S). Tex Allen's SOCIAL WORKER (1970) play told the story in one act about nervous young Brooklyn NY USA recent college graduate NYC Welfare Dept. worker assigned to a caseload of recently released violent prison convicts and the male social worker's girlfriend, also a Brooklyn social worker named "Miss Goldwasser" who worked in the same Brooklyn NY USA field office and was both an observer and wanna-be therapist trying to calm her young male social worker boyfriend as he faced danger when a recently released prison convict "client" who had threatened him arrived at the Brooklyn NYC social work office demanding immediate money benefits. The SOCIAL WORKER (1970) play was a black comedy, and audience members commented that it was the most charming play presented at the Evergreen Theatre in Hollywood in the history of the theatre. Julie Gilbert Goldsmith was a young Hollywood actress in 1970, and went onto a career as a writer of novels and non-fiction books, and later retired to Palm Beach Florida where she went on to a career as a teacher of creative writing at the Kravitz Center in Palm Beach Florida.
- Tex (David) Allen was hired October 1972 for health insurance media management work as Public Relations Manager for Maryland (USA) Blue Cross And Blue Shield non-profit health insurance organization then located in Towson, Maryland, a Baltimore County, Maryland suburb of Baltimore City, Maryland. He supervised several editors of in-house publications directed at employees and consumers of Maryland Blue Cross And Blue Shield health insurance products. In addition, he wrote, produced, directed, photographed, and narrated an award winning in-house documentary color sound movie titled IT'S ABSTRACTED (1972) about the computerized storage of Maryland Blue Cross And Blue Shield health insurance files and records which, throughout its then long history up to 1972, had always existed only in paper format and had never been stored or retrieved electronically. The documentary movie was inexpensively produced on magnetic sound striped Super 8 movie film which had only recently (in 1972) become widely available, and which enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the middle 1970's before it was replaced widely by use of video tape. The documentary was one of the first USA produced in-house industrial movie used to explain the then new (1972) use of computers in the insurance industry.
- Tex (David) Allen was hired in 1978 by Northern Telecom Of Canada (name later changed to NorTel) to become Financial Public Relations Manager in charge of the telephone and computer manufacturing company's Annual Report Of Operations, and other Quarterly Financial Report Publications. He wrote an award winning theme article for the 1978 Northern Telecom Annual Report which explained the difference between use of digital electronic switching (then new in worldwide telephony) and old time mechanical analog telephone signal switching. Up to the 1970's, Northern Telecom was Canada's equivalent telephone business organization to Western Electric Corp. in the USA. Up to the 1970's, Bell Telephone was the largest single national phone company in the USA, and Bell Canada was the largest single phone company in Canada. Each organization had a wholly owned manufacturing organization which provided physical phone company products: Western Electric in the USA and Northern Telecom in Canada. The arrival of digital switching in the 1970's required Northern Telecom to begin manufacture of digital switching equipment, and that had to be explained in clear language to the public which was at that time (1970's) unfamiliar with how digital electronic equipment worked and why it was needed to meet the increased demand at that time for worldwide telephone service. Tex (David) Allen's important Northern Telecom Annual Report theme article in 1978 about the then coming arrival of digital electronic communications which would in time completely replace old time analog mechanical telephone switching machinery was widely reprinted all over the world and used to explain the then new electronic changes in telephone equipment and use.
- Tex (David) Allen had a classical education through college graduation which included five years of Latin ancient language study (included choral group singing of Latin language songs including Ave Maria/ Shubert, Adeste Fideles Christmas carol version of O Come All Ye Faithcul, Sicut Locutus Est fugue from The Magnificat by J.S. Bach, Cantate Domino, and Guadiamus Igatur song from Heidelberg University in Germany), one year of German language study, one year of French language study, and two years of Spanish language study (following which he was able to speak Spanish as a second language fluently). He studied the ancient Greek classics at the University Of Virginia in Fall of 1961 where he read the two major classic spic poems of the ancient Greek poet, Homer (The Illiad and the Odessey)., read The History Of The Pelepenesian (Athens vs. Sparta) Wars by Thucydetes and the Persian Wars by Herodotus, and also the basic ancient philosophical writings of Plato and Aristotle, which studies were overseen by Professor Harrison Pemberton, one of UVA's most distinguished teachers. He also studied ancient history at both Baltimore City College High School in Baltimore, Maryland USA and also at Antioch College Ohio which awarded him a Bachelor Of Arts degree. He also studied music choral singing performance art in Baltimore Maryland USA public schools both at the high school and pre-high school levels (junior high school and elementary school), and he studied Baroque Music History at Antioch College Ohio. He studied the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare in both high school and college, and attended performances of both Shakespeare and ancient Greek plays during his high school and college years. Other classical education influences on Tex (David) Allen were frequent attendance at live classical music concerts during the 1950's performed by the Baltimore Maryland USA Symphony Orchestra. He was also influenced by British Broadcasting Company (BBC) documentary and dramatic presentations from the 1970s including Civilisation (1970) written and hosted by Lord Kenneth Clark, I Claudius starring Derek Jacoby, and Brideshead Revisited starring Jeremy Irons, all of which had important classical education content and references. Study of ancient libraries at the University Of Maryland (MLS degree 1989) emphasized the classic and early importance of libraries (e.g. Library At Alexandria, Egypt created at the start of the Christian era, etc.).
- Tex Allen wrote a Pentecostal joke religious song in Atlanta, Georgia during 1981 titled Your Body Is A Temple Of The Holy Spirit And He Doesn't Want To Live In A Shack which was widely performed in the early 1980s in the SE USA states born again Christian Pentecostal community. Tex Allen was often asked to perform his song (which he accompanied on his acoustical guitar) during the 1980's. The song was never recorded professionally, although amateur tape recordings of the song were made and distributed on a limited basis.
- Tex (David) Allen's father, Foy Ray Allen (born Frederick Richard Cudd 1911.....died 2003 at age 92) served during World War II as a U.S. Navy Intelligence Chief Petty Officer both in New York City, NY USA and also at the U.S. Naval Headquarters Naval Intelligence Archives then located at the Navy Annex in Arlington, Virginia in suburban Washington, D.C. Tex Allen was born in New York City, but moved with his mother six months after his birth to Arlington, Virginia to join his U.S. Navy father.
- Tex (David) Allen wrote an unpublished movie history book about Hollywood and other feature movies produced in the state of Maryland, USA titled "Maryland Movies, Maryland History" in 2004. He wrote the book while working as a movie history teacher at both the Community College Of Baltimore County Maryland (locaated in Baltimore County, Maryland), and also at Towson University (located in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland USA). The book reviewed history of feature movies produced in Maryland from silent movie days beginning in 1898 and the Spanish American War and extending to modern times in the 1990's. The book was submitted to a publisher specializing in regional USA history, but was never published when the owner of the publishing company was informed that Tex (David) Allen had criticized the staff and efficiency of the owner's publishing company. The publishing company owner canceled the agreement to publish the book, which was never submitted to another publisher, and remains to the present time (2018) in manuscript form.
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