Heck Allen
Writing
Born 1912-09-12
Died 1991-10-26
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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Henry Wilson "Heck" Allen (September 12, 1912 – October 26, 1991) was an American author and screenwriter. He used several different pseudonyms for his works. His 50+ novels of the American West were published under the pen names Will Henry and Clay Fisher. Allen's screenplays and scripts for animated shorts were credited to Heck Allen and Henry Allen.
In 1937 Allen began working as a contract screenwriter for MGM animation division. While his early work was for Harman and Ising's Barney Bear series, his longest collaboration was with director Tex Avery. Allen was credited as story artist on many classic Avery shorts, included Swing Shift Cinderella, King-Size Canary, and The First Bad Man, among many others. Allen downplayed his contributions to the shorts, claiming that Avery merely used him as a sounding board for his own ideas.
Allen's career as a novelist began in 1952, with the publication of his first Western No Survivors. Allen, afraid that the studio would disapprove of his moonlighting, used a pen name to avoid trouble. He would go on to publish over 50 novels, eight of which were adapted for the screen. Most of these were published under one or the other of the pseudonyms Will Henry and Clay Fisher.
Allen was a five-time winner of the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America and a recipient of the Levi Strauss Award for lifetime achievement.
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Filmography
Writing
55 credits
Mackenna's Gold
The Tall Men
Young Billy Young
Journey to Shiloh
Pillars of the Sky
Santa Fe Passage
Sleepy-Time Squirrel
Little Johnny Jet
Caballero Droopy
Deputy Droopy
Swing Shift Cinderella
Who Killed Who?
Slap Happy Lion
Henpecked Hoboes
Uncle Tom's Cabaña
Screwball Squirrel
Heir Bear
Jerky Turkey
Hound Hunters
The Shooting of Dan McGoo
The Hick Chick
Cobs and Robbers
Billy Boy
The Bear That Couldn't Sleep
The Screwy Truant
Dixieland Droopy
Cellbound
King-Size Canary
The Farm of Tomorrow
Barney's Hungry Cousin
The Three Little Pups
The First Bad Man
The House of Tomorrow
Lonesome Lenny
Wild and Woolfy
The Bear and the Beavers
Half-Pint Palomino
T.V. of Tomorrow
The Cat That Hated People
Big Heel-Watha
Rock-a-Bye Bear
Cleaning House
Northwest Hounded Police
Scrappy Birthday
Drag-A-Long Droopy
Wee-Willie Wildcat
Busybody Bear
Red Hot Rangers
Wild and Woody!
The Flea Circus
Half-Pint Pygmy
The Uninvited Pest
Wet Blanket Policy
Field and Scream
Wild Honey, or, How to Get Along Without a Ration Book
Acting
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