Stephen B. Allen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American Mormon missionary and filmmaker
Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1950
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Profession: missionary
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Stephen B. Allen
- Stephen Brown Allen (born January 12, 1950) is a maker of Latter-day Saint religious and proselytizing films. Allen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Arthur Tranter and Virginia Brown Allen.
- His mother died from complications related to childbirth and his father subsequently married June Fowler Allen, the only mother he would know.
- His father was involved in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) building program.
- On assignments, his family moved to various parts of the world.
- Allen spent four years of his childhood in Australia and New Zealand.
- At the age of twelve his family moved to Montevideo, Uruguay, where he later graduated from high school. Allen served as a missionary in the church's Guatemala–El Salvador Mission from 1969 to 1971.
- He then attended Brigham Young University where he graduated with a major in Communications—Television Production and a minor in Advertising and Public Relations. He married Nancy Billings on January 28, 1972, in the Salt Lake Temple.
- They have six children—four boys and two girls.
- All six children have served missions.
- The Allens now have 25 grandchildren. Allen served as president of the church's Arizona Tempe Mission from 1993 to 1995.
- He has served as a bishop twice, counselor in a stake presidency, and stake president. Prior to his call as a mission president, Allen was the director of Media and Public Programs in the church's Missionary Department.
- He was responsible for the production and distribution of radio, television, and print media directed to nonmembers as well as the church's pageants, visitors' centers, and historic sites.
- Earlier in his career, Allen was the executive producer of the LDS Church's Homefront radio and television commercials and many other church films, including Mr.
- Krueger's Christmas (1980) and The Last Leaf (1983).Allen is currently serving as managing director of the church's Missionary Department.
- On April 2, 2011, Allen became an area seventy and member of the Fifth Quorum of Seventy, assigned to the Utah Salt Lake City Area.
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