Alan Tilvern

Acting · Born 1918-11-05 · London, England, UK

Biography

Alan Tilvern (5 November 1918 – 17 December 2003) was a British film and television actor with a tough-guy image. He is possibly best known for his role as R.K. Maroon in the film Who framed Roger Rabbit. He was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London, to Jewish Lithuanian parents, who changed their name from Tilovitch. After leaving school he became a barrow boy in Brick Lane. In the Second World War he served in the Army but was invalided out in 1945

Known for

• Porgy and Bess (1993)
• Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri (1987)
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
• Nineteen Nineteen (1985)
• Reunion at Fairborough (1985)
• Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues (1984)
• Firefox (1982)
• Invasion (1980)
• High Rise Donkey (1980)
• Superman (1978)
• Brass Target (1978)
• One Bummer News Day (1978)
• The Stick Up (1977)
• Love and Death (1975)
• Percy's Progress (1974)
• The Revolutionary (1970)
• Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
• Khartoum (1966)
• The Frozen Dead (1966)
• No Place Like Earth (1965)
• Hot Enough for June (1964)
• Doctor Who: Planet of Giants (1964)
• Shadow of Fear (1963)
• Danger by My Side (1962)