actor | Actor | James Caan (actor) | Michael York (actor) | Chris Cooper (actor) | Academy Award for Best Actor | Robert Taylor (actor) | Pat O'Brien (actor) | Leslie Howard (actor) | John Heard (actor) | Richard Wilson (Scottish actor) | Matthew Fox (actor) | Brian Cox (actor) | Robert Young (actor) | David Warner (actor) | William Forsythe (actor) | Robert Preston (actor) | Mike Myers (actor) | Matt Smith (actor) | John Savage (actor) | Ian Roberts (actor) | Robert Walker (actor) | Robert Blake (actor) | Mike Reid (actor) | John Corbett (actor) | Vishnuvardhan (actor) | TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actor | Robert Lindsay (actor) | National Film Award for Best Actor | Mark Stevens (actor) |
Allison is best known as a political scientist for his book Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971), in which he developed two new theoretical paradigms - an organizational process model and a bureaucratic politics model - to compete with the then-prevalent approach of understanding foreign policy decision making using a rational actor model.