Published: June 19, 2009 10:40 am      

Film festival to honor late Allen actor

Allen — A film festival to honor the late Clint Kimbrough, a New York and Hollywood actor who grew up in Allen, takes place today and Saturday in Allen.

Kimbrough was born in Oklahoma City, however his family moved to Allen when he was a baby. He graduated from Allen High School in the 1950s and moved to New York when he was 18.

Before moving to Hollywood in 1967, Kimbrough appeared in several Broadway and off-Broadway productions. He had supporting roles in several television series and films, including “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Westinghouse Studio One: The Night America Trembled,” and “G.E. Theater.” Kimbrough also had a small part in “The Boston Strangler.” In 1958, he starred in “Hot Spell” opposite Anthony Quinn, Shirley Booth, Earl Holliman and Shirley MacLaine.

Kimbrough was one of the co-stars in the 1970s film “Bloody Mama.” An evil brood of brothers and their domineering mother, the Barker Gang, terrorized northern Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma and southern Missouri in the 1930s. Kimbrough played one of Ma Barker’s dangerous boys in the movie based on their lives.

Showings of Kimbrough’s films begins at 10 p.m. Friday with a showing of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and “Appointment at Eleven.”

Saturday’s festival begins at 9 a.m. at Allen High School Auditorium featuring “Breakfast with Edward R. Murrow,” “Westinghouse Studio One” and “The Night America Trembled.” Clint Kimbrough Film Festival presents “Hot Spell” at 11 a.m., “The Iron Horse: Bridge at Forty-Mile,” at 1 p.m., “Von Richthofen and Brown” at 2:30 p.m., “Bloody Mama,” which has been edited, at 5 p.m. Following the Allen High School Alumni Banquet, the festival finale will be “Night Call Nurses,” (which has been edited) at 11 p.m.

No films will be shown during the Allen High School Alumni Banquet.