Allin Kempthorne

Allin Kempthorne is a British comedy actor, writer and entertainer. He is also a magician and film director and in his early career was a cartoonist. In recent years he became best known as a character entertainer and magician and for directing and starring in the comedy film The Vampires of Bloody Island.

Career

He started his career as a joke writer and cartoonist for The Sun, The Mirror, and News of the World newspapers. He later enrolled himself at a Circus school were he learned various physical comedy acts. He became a street performer in Covent Garden, and won several performance awards. He was a finalist for the International Street Entertainer of the Year Award and won the Tap Water comedy award. He later enrolled in Drama school and started a dual career as an entertainer and as an actor. He formed a comedy double act The Fabulous Trouser Brothers with American comedy juggler David Wolf and the pair started appearing on television. This partnership ended abruptly with David's [...] three years into their partnership. Allin then became a solo comedy act Dweebie the Robot, having a few appearances on television including Blue Peter and Spanish Archer'. He has continued to perform on television and in films, mainly as an actor, and in 2009 he directed his first film,The Vampires of Bloody Island. He specialises in children's entertainment, magic and comedy. He appears at festivals, theme parks and cruise ships with his comedy children's showInspired lunacywhich has been televised by theBBC''.

Filmography as actor

• Johnny English Reborn
• Black Mirror
• John Bishop's Britain
• Horrible Histories
• The Vampires of Bloody Island
• Star Stories
• Dead Set
• Lee Evans: Big Live at the O2
• Hotel Babylon
• The Riddle
• Nuclear Secrets
• The Lavender List
• Seconds from Disaster
• The Big Impression
• Innocents
• The Armando Iannucci Shows
• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
• The Borrowers
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Johnny English
• Silent Cry
• Spider
• The End of the Affair
• Merlin

Filmography as director

• The Vampires of Bloody Island

Filmography as screen writer

• The Vampires of Bloody Island
• Don't Give Up Your Day Job BBC Scotland (Parts)

Publications

• 1989 The Daily Mail Guide To Working From Home - Cartoonist
• 1990 Agiliwriting - Cartoonist
• 1992 The Gordons Guide To Juggling - Author and Cartoonist
• 2011 The Vampires of Bloody Island, The Complete Movie Screenplay - Author

Contributing writer and cartoonist

A prolific cartoonist in his twenties, his cartoons were published daily in the British tabloid newspapers. He also wrote and drew the regular strips "How to succeed in Circus" for 'The Catch' Magazine and 'Starface' for Zit Comic.

• The Sun
• The Sunday Sport
• The Daily Mirror
• The News of The World
• The Daily Star
• Bella Magazine
• The Catch Magazine
• Gutter Comic
• Zit (Comic)
• Spit! (Comic)

References

• Inspired Lunacy