Tony Owen (May 2, 1907 – May 12, 1984) was an American agent and producer, who was married to Donna Reed.
In the late 1930s he produced game programs for the Detroit Lions, and in 1940 became a vice president of the football club.
[4] He followed it with two films directed by Ken Hughes and distributed by Allied Artists: Little Red Monkey (1955), with Richard Conte, and Timeslip (1955) with Gene Nelson and Faith Domergue.
[5] That month it was announced Maxwell Setton would run the company in London, to make six films, starting with The Nylon Web which became Town on Trial.
[6] Others included The Long Haul (1957) with Victor Mature and Diana Dors, directed by Hughes; I Was Monty's Double (1958) with John Mills directed by John Guillermin;[7] Owen said "the last one [film] died the death of a dog at the box office.
A number of scripts were written but they did not feel confident, and eventually developed a show where Reed played the wife of a pediatrician.