Eugene Allen
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Eugene Charles Allen was an American waiter and butler who worked for the US government at the White House for 34 years until he retired as the head butler in 1986.
Allen with Ronald and Nancy Reagan, 1986
The Butler
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The Butler is a 2013 American historical drama film directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels and written by Danny Strong. It is inspired by Wil Haygood's Washington Post article "A Butler Well Served b
Eugene Allen
…for the US government at the White House for 34 years until he retired as the head butler in 1986. Allen's life was the inspiration for the 2013 film The Butler. Allen was born in Buckingham County, Virginia and raised on Shirland Farm, a sharecropping plantation near Scottsville. He worked as a waiter for many…
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Forest Whitaker portrays Cecil Gaines in The Butler
Nancy Reagan