Biography
Alan Samuel Lyle-Smythe MBE, M.C. (9 November 1914 β 1 October 2006), who wrote under the name Alan Caillou, was an English-born author, actor, screenwriter, soldier, policeman and professional hunter. Alan Lyle-Smythe was born in Surrey, England. Prior to World War II, he served with the Palestine Police from 1936 to 1939 and learned the Arabic language. He was awarded an MBE in June 1938. He married Aliza Sverdova in 1939, then studied acting from 1939 to 1941.In January 1940, Lyle-Smythe was commissioned in the Royal Army Service Corps. Due to his linguistic skills, he transferred to the Intelligence Corps and served in the Western Desert, in which he used the surname "Caillou" (the French word for 'pebble') as an alias.
He was captured in North Africa, imprisoned and threatened with execution in Italy, then escaped to join the British forces at Salerno. He was then posted to serve with the partisans in Yugoslavia. He wrote about his experiences in the book The World is Six Feet Square (1954). He was promoted to captain and awarded the Military Cross in 1944.Following the war, he returned to the Palestine Police from 1946 to 1947, then served as a Police Commissioner in British-occupied Italian Somaliland from 1947 to 1952, where he was recommissioned a captain. He wrote about this experience in the memoir Sheba Slept Here.
After work as a District Officer in Somalia and professional hunter, Lyle-Smythe travelled to Canada, where he worked as a hunter and then became an actor on Canadian television.
Filmography
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TV Shows 43
Movies 33
Writer 20
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Cheetah (1989)
The Ice Pirates (1984)
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
Goliath Awaits (1981)
Beyond the Next Mountain (1981)
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Beyond Evil (1980)
Gauguin the Savage (1980)
Man from Atlantis (1977)
Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
Quark (1977)
Dixie Dynamite (1976)
Assault on Agathon (1975)
The Questor Tapes (1974)
The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)
The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping (1973)
The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)
Evel Knievel (1971)
The Aquarians (1970)
The Losers (1970)
The Challengers (1970)
Sole Survivor (1970)
The File on Devlin (1969)
Hellfighters (1968)
The Name of the Game (1968)
The Devil's Brigade (1968)
Elizabeth the Queen (1968)
It Takes a Thief (1968)
Mannix (1967)
The High Chaparral (1967)
Garrison's Gorillas (1967)
Ironside (1967)
Jericho (1966)
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966)
The Rat Patrol (1966)
Tarzan (1966)
The Rare Breed (1966)
Village of the Giants (1965)
Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)
Strange Bedfellows (1965)
Daniel Boone (1964)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964)
Flipper (1964)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)
Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963)
Rampage (1963)
Burke's Law (1963)
The Fugitive (1963)
Combat! (1962)
Ensign O'Toole (1962)
It Happened in Athens (1962)
The Beachcomber (1962)
Ben Casey (1961)
The Fiercest Heart (1961)
Surfside 6 (1960)
My Three Sons (1960)
Thriller (1960)
Seven Thieves (1960)
Johnny Midnight (1960)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Adventures in Paradise (1959)
The Third Man (1959)
Bonanza (1959)
One Step Beyond (1959)
77 Sunset Strip (1958)
Behind Closed Doors (1958)
Bronco (1958)
Sugarfoot (1957)
Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
Cheyenne (1955)
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1954)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
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GenderMale
Birthday1914-11-09
Deathday1996-10-01 (81 years old)
Birth PlaceSurrey, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
AwardsMember of the Order of the British Empire, Military Cross
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