Ted Allan

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Ted Allan (1910-1993) was a commercial model before becoming a unit still photographer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Having worked in front of the camera himself, he was sensitive to the needs of camera-shy subjects like Spencer Tracy and was soon promoted to the portrait gallery. Allan’s claim to fame was his masterly retouching; he preferred to do it himself, rather than letting a staff retouch artist do it. When Allan took an assignment with David Selznick’s company, he was blackballed by M-G-M head Louis B. Mayer. Allan took his considerable talents to CBS Radio but returned to the studios In the 1950s as a “unit stills man.”