Allen Adler

Allen Adler
Born(1916-12-25)December 25, 1916
New York City, U.S.
DiedJanuary 30, 1964(1964-01-30) (aged 47)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationWriter
GenreScience fiction
Relatives

Allen Adler (December 25, 1916 – January 30, 1964) was an American author who was also involved with theater. With Irving Block he wrote the story for the screenplay for the movie Forbidden Planet, based on Shakespeare's The Tempest,[1] but during the Second Red Scare of the 1950s he was blacklisted from the movie industry.

  1. ^ Vaughan & Vaughan 1999, pp. 111–12.