Sam Wanamaker

His daughter is actress Zoe Wanamaker. In 1999, Allen decided to return to performing in pornographic films, appearing in the film Ginger Lynn's Torn. Sadly, he died of cancer before it opened in 1997. In 1996, Allen gave birth to a son, Sterling Wayne Robert Allen. Wanamaker was instrumental in rebuilding the Globe Theatre in London. Allen had a two year relationship with actor Charlie Sheen from 1990 to 1992. He later began a long-standing affair with actress Jan Sterling. She also spent time in a rehabilitation center during this period because of cocaine abuse.

He settled in England, where he continued his career on the stage and in pictures. In 1991, Allen was convicted of falsifying a tax return and spent seventeen days in jail. Born in Chicago, Wanamaker left the States in the late 1940s because he thought he might be blacklisted due to his leftist convictions (see McCarthyism). She also appeared on several television series and in the interactive movies segments of the computer games Wing Commander III and Wing Commander Prophecy as Chief Technician Rachel Coriolis. Sam Wanamaker (June 14, 1919 - December 18, 1993) was an American actor and director. Allen appeared in several non-adult films including Vice Academy (1989) which was popular enough to have two sequels and Bound and Gagged: A Love Story (1992) which received some critical acclaim. In February 1986 Allen decided to stop making adult films and attempt to establish a career in mainstream films using her full name.

Other career highlights include her performance as the prostitute who introduces Tom Byron to sex in Kinky Business and her work in Slumber Party with Eric Edwards. Allen's best work is in the award-winning Ten Little Maidens. Allen received the Best New Starlet award in 1985 from the Adult Video News and is a inductee to the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and Adult Video News (AVN) Halls of Fame. She had her own line of videos through Vivid Video Productions with director Bruce Seven.

Allen became one of the biggest stars in erotica and made sixty-nine adult films. She did some nude modeling work and then began performing in adult films using the name Ginger Lynn in December 1983. Born in Rockford, Illinois, Allen moved to California in 1982. "Ginger Lynn" is the screen name of Ginger Lynn Allen (born December 14, 1962), an American actress best known for her work in pornographic films.