Biography
Canadian screenwriter Ted Allan is best known for penning
Lies My Father Told Me (1976), the Oscar-nominated story of a Jewish boy growing up in a 1920s Montreal ghetto who develops a special friendship with his orthodox grandfather. Some of his other well-known films include his co-adaptation (with
John Cassavetes) of his story
Love Streams (1984) and Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1989), which was based on Allan's The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman Bethune. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide