{{short description|American actor}} {{use mdy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Allan Sears | image = Rio Grande (1920) - Ad 3.jpg | caption = An advertisement for Rio Grande, 1920. Sears (left) is seen with Rosemary Theby | birth_name = Alfred Daniel Sears | birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|3|9|mf=y}} | birth_place = San Antonio, Texas, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|8|18|1887|3|9|mf=y}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | education = | occupation = Actor | spouse = | children = }} '''Allan Sears''' (March 9, 1887 – August 18, 1942) was an American film actor who played leading roles in the 1910s and 1920s before transitioning into character roles in the 1930s.<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 Aug 1942 |title=Allan Sears Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/530113343/?terms=%22allan+sears%22 |access-date=2019-12-14 |website=Visalia Times-Delta |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380777183/?terms=%22allan+sears%22+zaida|title=Allan D. Sears|date=21 Aug 1942|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en|access-date=2019-12-14}}</ref> He was noted for his tall stature.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/505442787/?terms=%22allan+sears%22|title=Screen and Stage Stars in Roles of 'In Love with Love'|date=19 Jan 1925|website=The Victoria Daily Times|language=en|access-date=2019-12-14}}</ref>
== Biography == Sears was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Harry Sears and Alice Gould.{{Citation needed |date=November 2023}}
He started acting on camera around 1914, after getting his start on the stage in theater and as an opera singer.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 Jan 1921 |title=In the Movies at the Hill |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/609571405/?terms=%22allan+sears%22 |access-date=2019-12-14 |website=Petaluma Daily Morning Courier |language=en}}</ref> In Hollywood, appeared in a number of D. W. Griffith's films alongside actress Mary Miles Minter.
He took some time away from Hollywood to recuperate from an illness in the early 1920s, returning a few years later to play character roles.<ref>{{Cite news |date=31 Aug 1924 |title=Who's Who and What's What |language=en |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380463242/?terms=%22allen+sears%22+actor |access-date=2019-12-14}}</ref>
He died in Los Angeles in 1942, and was survived by his daughter, Zaida.{{Citation needed |date=November 2023}}
== Selected filmography == * ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915) * ''The Absentee'' (1915) * ''The Penitentes'' (1915) * ''Martyrs of the Alamo'' (1915) * ''Sold for Marriage'' (1916) * ''Reggie Mixes In'' (1916) * ''Hell-to-Pay Austin'' (1916) * ''Intolerance'' (1916) * ''Diane of the Follies'' (1916) * ''The Children of the Feud'' (1916) * ''A Sister of Six'' (1916) * ''The Little Yank'' (1917) * ''A Woman's Awakening'' (1917) * ''The Gown of Destiny'' (1917) * ''The Desire of the Moth'' (1917) * ''A Girl of the Timber Claims'' (1917) * ''The Regenerates'' (1917) * ''Madame Bo-Peep'' (1917) * ''The City of Purple Dreams'' (1918) * ''The Wife He Bought'' (1918) * ''The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin'' (1918) * ''Her Inspiration'' (1918) * ''The Amateur Adventuress'' (1919) * ''Big Little Person'' (1919) * ''Heart o' the Hills'' (1919) * ''Judy of Rogue's Harbor'' (1920) * ''Rio Grande'' (1920) * ''Long Live the King'' (1923) * ''In Love with Love'' (1924) * ''The Scarlet Honeymoon'' (1925) * ''Into Her Kingdom'' (1926) * ''The Midnight Adventure'' (1928) * ''Name the Woman'' (1934) * ''The Revenge Rider'' (1935) * ''Fighting Shadows'' (1935) * ''Justice of the Range'' (1935) * ''The Singing Vagabond'' (1935) * ''Sunset of Power'' (1936) * ''For the Service'' (1936) * ''The Boss Rider of Gun Creek'' (1936) * ''Two-Fisted Sheriff'' (1937) * ''Trapped'' (1937)
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