Allan Rich

Rich was born to a Jewish family in Astoria, Queens, and his family moved to the Bronx when he was 6. Rich began his acting career when he was nine years old. He appeared in the Broadway productions ''I'll Take the High Road (1943), Career Angel (1944), Darkness at Noon (1951), and The Emperor's Clothes'' (1953). In 1948, Rich played the title role in a production of Ben Jonson's Volpone in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Beginning in 1979, Rich was distributor and publisher of Hollywood portraits made by George Hurrell. == Personal life and death ==

Rich was one of the many alleged communist sympathizers blacklisted in the 1950s Hollywood blacklist. He married Elaine in 1951, who would go on to be a personal manager to a number of actors after the couple moved to Los Angeles in 1976. The couple had two children together. Rich spent the last five years of his life as a resident at the Lillian Booth Actors Home, run by the Actors Fund of America. He died from progressive dementia in Englewood, New Jersey, in August 2020, at the age of 94. ==Activism==

Rich was the co-founder of non-profit organization We Care About Kids, which produces educational short films for middle and high school youths. == Filmography ==