Allan Franklin Arbus (February 15, 1918 – April 19, 2013) was an American actor and photographer and the husband of photographer Diane Arbus. His role as Dr. Sidney Freedman (Major), a psychiatrist, is well-known on the CBS television series MA*S*H.
Table of Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 Personal life
- 3 Photography career
- 3.1 Putney Swope
- 3.2 Coffy Movie Poster (27 x 40 Inches - 69cm x 102cm) (1973) -(William Elliott)(Sid Haig)(Pam Grier)(Booker Bradshaw)(Robert DoQui)(Allan Arbus)
- 3.3 Glamour: The "How to" Fashion Magazine for Young Women, vol. 39, no. 6 (August 1958)
- 3.4 Ladies And Gentlemen Take My Advice Pull Down Your Pants And Slide On The Ice Allan Arbus.
- 3.5 { [ AN UNOFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF ALLAN ARBUS: FROM COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY TO M*A*S*H ] } Millian, Monica ( AUTHOR ) Feb-18-2011 Paperback
- 3.6 Coffy Original 1973 8x10 Photo Pam Grier Allan Arbus with Snipe on Verso
- 3.7 Vintage photo of Johanna Kerns, Tony Roberts, Allan Arbus, Barbara Babcock, Marcia Rodd, Beatrice Alda, Elizabeth Alda and Jack Weston in"The Four Seasons"
- 3.8 Celebrity Print Posters Allan Arbus Poster - 18 x 24 inch
- 3.9 MOVIE PHOTO: AMERICATHON-1979-ALLAN ARBUS-FRED WILLARD-BW 8x10 STILL FN
- 3.10 Greaser's Palace
Early life
Arbus was born in New York City, to a Jewish family, the son of stockbroker Harry Arbus and his wife Rose (née Goldberg). He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he first developed an interest in acting while appearing in a student play.
Arbus was also a music lover. Before becoming an actor, he was reportedly so taken by Benny Goodman’s recordings that he took up playing the clarinet.
Personal life
Allan and Diane Arbus had two children, photographer Amy Arbus, and writer and art director Doon Arbus. The couple separated in 1959 and divorced in 1969, two years before Diane Arbus’s suicide in 1971.
Arbus married actress Mariclare Costello in 1977. The couple had one daughter, Arin Arbus, who is the associate artistic director at Theatre for a New Audience.
Arbus died of congestive heart failure on April 19, 2013, in Los Angeles. He was 95. He was cremated and his ashes given to his family.
Photography career
During the 1940s, Arbus became a photographer for the United States Army. In 1946, after completing his military service, he and his first wife, photographer Diane Arbus (née Nemerov, whom he had married in 1941), started a photographic advertising business in Manhattan. Arbus was primarily known for advertising photography that appeared in Glamour, Seventeen, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and other magazines, as well as the weekly newspaper advertising photography for Russeks, a Fifth Avenue department store owned by Diane’s father. Edward Steichen’s noted photo exhibition The Family of Man includes a photograph credited to the couple. The Arbuses’ professional partnership ended in 1956, when Diane quit the business; the couple formally separated three years later. Allan Arbus continued on as a solo photographer, but was out of the business by the time the couple divorced in 1969.
Diane and Allan Arbus’s studio/living quarters were at one time at 319 East 72nd Street in New York City. Their neighbor and friend was Robert Brown, an actor on the TV show Here Come the Brides.
Last update 2021-08-06