Al Posen

Male, Film producer

1895 – 1960

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Who was Al Posen?

Alvah Posen was an American cartoonist on several comic strips, but he is best known for his strip Sweeney & Son and as co-producer of the now-lost Marx Brothers film, Humor Risk.

Born in New York, Posen served in the Army during World War I and worked for a film advertising agency when the war ended. He then travelled in the Orient as a member of a geological and mining expedition, spending a year in Siam and Yunan.

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Born
1895
United States of America
Died
Jun 10, 1960

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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