Alan Eddie Conway (10 July 1934 – 5 December 1998) was an English conman, best known for impersonating film director Stanley Kubrick.
It was around that time that he began frequently changing his name and fabricating various personal histories: among other stories, he told people he was a Polish Jew who had been imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.
Conway convinced several figures in the entertainment industry that he was the famed director, promising them both roles in films and exclusive interviews, and occasionally conned others into paying for meals and drinks, claiming his studio would reimburse them.
Rich and his journalist friends were excited at the prospect of an exclusive interview with "Stanley Kubrick", only later discovering that he was an impostor after contacting executives at Kubrick's longtime studio Warner Brothers, who were aware of the scam but had been unable to identify the imposter.
"[2] Conway was tracked down in part through the efforts of Kubrick's personal assistant, Anthony Frewin,[3] who went on to write the screenplay for the film Colour Me Kubrick (2005) based on these incidents, with John Malkovich starring as Conway.