Rob Allyn was born on October 18,1959 and is a former political consultant to conservative politicians, turned film producer, screenwriter, media company owner and New York Times best-selling author.
12 Facts About Rob Allyn
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Rob Allyn is chairman and CEO of Margate House Films, based at Fox Studios in Sydney.
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Rob Allyn holds a Master of Liberal Arts Degree from Southern Methodist University and began his career as a Capitol Hill aide, PepsiCo executive speechwriter to Texas Governor Bill Clements in the early 1980s.
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In year 2014, Rob Allyn was hired by Prabowo Subianto's campaign in 2014 Indonesian presidential election but Rob Allyn's involvement was denied by gerindra, Prabowo Subianto's political party.
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In 2002, Rob Allyn sold his agency to Omnicom and served for five more years as its CEO.
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In 2007, Rob Allyn wrote Revolution of Hope with former Mexican President Vicente Fox.
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Rob Allyn was a television commentator on Fox News and PBS.
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Rob Allyn has appeared on CNN's Inside Politics, The O'Reilly Factor, The MacNeil-Lehrer Report and Listening to America with Bill Moyers.
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In 2007, Rob Allyn founded Margate House Films in south east Asia.
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Rob Allyn created, wrote and produced the feature documentary Hungry is the Tiger which was selected for the Rome Film Festival Asiatica Film Mediale and nominated as Best Documentary at the 53rd Asia Pacific Film Festival in Taiwan and the 2010 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in the United States.
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In 2012, Rob Allyn co-wrote and produced Java Heat, a crime-thriller set in Indonesia about an American who teams up with a local cop to track down an eccentric jewel-thief.
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In 2019, Rob Allyn began working on a biopic titled Rajah which tells the life of famed British-born adventurer James Brooke who became the ruler of Sarawak.