I bought the full Season 1 Voyage to the.... set at Target for $20. I first watched some of the special features, and saw and heard, for the first time I can remember, Irwin Allen.

He sounded like he had an odd version of an Australian accent, so I am not really sure what I heard.

Does anyone have official confirmation if Irwin Allen was Australian? If not, what was that accent?

Thanks!

I bought the full Season 1 Voyage to the.... set at Target for $20. I first watched some of the special features, and saw and heard, for the first time I can remember, Irwin Allen.

He sounded like he had an odd version of an Australian accent, so I am not really sure what I heard.

Does anyone have official confirmation if Irwin Allen was Australian? If not, what was that accent?

Thanks!

Irwin Allen was born and raised in New York, so I imagine that his accent is some kind of an east coast accent. It's been years since I've seen him on film, but I do recall an accent of some kind, but given his age and the length of time he spent working and living on the west coast, the accent probably mellowed a bit.

Bryan

Thanks for the reply. The accent I heard on the DVD was the strangest sounding accent I remember hearing from anyone's mouth.

Wasn't his actual name Irving Allen, and changed to Irwin?

Wasn't his actual name Irving Allen, and changed to Irwin?Irving Allen (no relation to Irwin) was a Polish-born producer-director who was Albert R. Broccoli's partner in the pre-James Bond years, and who produced the Matt Helm pictures starring Dean Martin. He died in 1987.

As for Irwin Allen's accent, it sounds like New York with a trace of Boston. I don't hear anything remotely Australian in his speech.