Background
After growing up in post-war London with his mother, Warren attended Terry"s Juveniles, a stage school based in the Drury Lane Theatre.
(From the author of "Confessions of a Society Photographer...)
From the author of "Confessions of a Society Photographer" comes this continuation of the story begun in that volume. Allan Warren's mix of gossip, biography, history, and photography is blended together with great wit and vivacity as he covers the happenings in British aristocratic and celebrity society since the late 70's. He doesn't hold back on describing his own exploits with those celebrities and others in this wonderfully racy book. Illustrated with many black and white photos, it contains a photograph of every Duke in the Kingdom and many Hollywood stars.
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After growing up in post-war London with his mother, Warren attended Terry"s Juveniles, a stage school based in the Drury Lane Theatre.
lieutenant was during this period that he attended auditions through which he received several assignments.
Warren started his photographic career at the age of 17 when he was acting in Alan Bennett"s play Forty Years On with John Gielgud in the West End at the Apollo Theatre. Around this time Warren bought his first second-hand camera and began to take photographs of his fellow actors. When in New York for personal reasons, he attended an audition for the Broadway production of Minnie"s Boys.
However, he later declined the role offered to him in favour of returning to London and pursuing photography as his vocation.
In the early 1980s Warren embarked on a quest to photograph all 26 non-royal and four royal dukes. Together with the 12th Duke of Manchester he set up the Duke"s Trust, a charity for children in need.
In the early "90s Warren embarked on writing plays. The cast of "The Lady of Phillimore Walk" consisted of Zena Walker and Philip Lowrie.
And saw productions in the United States.
Warren invented the Hankybreathe, a handkerchief which allows the user to inhale air through a carbon filter at the mouth, to filter out the noxious effects of exhaust emissions. The invention, which is meant to be dabbed in eucalyptus oil, harks back to the nosegay and stems from Warren"s experience with asthma in heavily polluted London.
(From the author of "Confessions of a Society Photographer...)
After this decisive event Warren embarked on his photography career, throughout which he took portraits of personalities including many actors, writers, musicians, politicians and members of the British Royal Family.