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Allyn Joslyn (July 21, 1901 — January 21, 1981) was an American stage, film and television actor. He was born in Milford, Pennsylvania

Alynn Joslyn was the son of a mining engineer. On stage from age 17, Joslyn scored as a leading man in such Broadway productions as Boy Meets Girl (1936) and Arsenic and Old Lace (1941), appearing in the latter as beleaguered theatrical critic Mortimer Brewster. Joslyn's leading-man qualities surprisingly evaporated on camera, thus he spent most of his film career playing obnoxious reporters, weaklings, and gormless "other men" who never got the girl.

Among his more notable film appearances were as Don Ameche's snobbish rival for the attentions of Gene Tierney in Heaven Can Wait
(1943), and as the jellyfish cardsharp disguised as a woman in Titanic
(1953). In the sprightly "B" picture It Shouldn'y Happen to a Dog (1946), Joslyn was for once cast in the lead, even winning heroine Carole Landis at fade-out time. A prolific radio and television performer, Joslyn played one-half of the title role on the 1962 TV sitcom McKeever and the Colonel.

In 1981, Allyn Joslyn died of cardiac failure in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California at the age of 79.

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