Ronald Allen is best known for playing David Hunter in the long-running ITV soap opera Crossroads, a role he played from 1969 to 1985.
11 Facts About Ronald Allen
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Ronald Allen studied at Leighton Park School in Reading and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where he won the John Gielgud Scholarship.
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Ronald Allen appeared in several films, including A Night to Remember about the sinking of the Titanic, the espionage film A Circle of Deception, the British horror films The Projected Man and The Fiend, the war film Hell Boats, and the black comedy Eat the Rich.
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Ronald Allen played David Hunter, who was a shareholder of the Crossroads Motel with Meg Mortimer, Tish Hope and Bernard Booth.
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Ronald Allen twice appeared as a guest star in the science fiction programme Doctor Who, in the stories The Dominators and The Ambassadors of Death.
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Ronald Allen frequently appeared as a guest in The Comic Strip Presents.
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Ronald Allen reprised the role in the sequel Five Go Mad on Mescalin, and appeared in South Atlantic Raiders Part 2, The Strike and Oxford, in addition to the feature film The Supergrass.
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Ronald Allen was in a relationship with actor Brian Hankins, who appeared in Crossroads.
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Ronald Allen was very close friends with his co-star and on-screen wife, Sue Lloyd.
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In March 1991, when Ronald Allen learned that he had terminal cancer, he and Lloyd got engaged and married in May 1991.
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Ronald Allen died six weeks later, on 18 June 1991, at the age of 60.