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Allan McKeown is an English Emmy-Award winning UK and US television and stage producer. Allan McKeown was born in Ealing on 21 May 1946. His parents Edith McKeown and Victor McKeown moved first to Hackney and then to Hainault in Essex. His father was the Clerk of Works at the new estate. Educated... at Beal Grammar school in Ilford, he left early and became a trainee hairdresser at Vidal Sassoon in Bond Street. He was a hairdresser and was a figure in the London scene of the 1960s, and in 1966 he opened his own salon. He worked on a number of films and TV shows, Sunday Night at the London Palladium and films Villain, Get Carter and XYZ. In 1969 he changed course and became a TV producer at James Garrett and Ptrs, at the time the largest TV commercials producer in the UK. He was appointed Managing Director shortly after joining. He left to form a production company Witzend with Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Initially making commercials then the feature film Porridge. He was one of the first independent television producers in the UK . McKeown not only produced in Britain with his company, WitzEnd, but also produced in the US for all of the networks.
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