About

Known credits:
61
Birthday:
1912-09-12
Place of birth:
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Website:
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Heck Allen

Overview

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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.

Known for

Acting
1988 Tex Avery: King of Cartoons Actor Himself 59
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1956 The River Changes Actor The Leader N/A
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1948 Wild and Woody! Actor Various Townspeople (voice) 59
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Writing
2021 Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 3 Writing Writer 59
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2020 Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 2 Writing Writer 59
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2020 Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 Writing Writer 58
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2007 Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection Writing Writer 59
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1991 Into the Badlands Writing Short Story 58
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1969 Young Billy Young Writing Novel 58
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1969 Mackenna's Gold Writing Novel 60
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1968 Journey to Shiloh Writing Novel 58
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1959 Yellowstone Kelly Writing Book 59
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1956 Pillars of the Sky Writing Novel 58
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1955 Cellbound Writing Story 59
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1955 Deputy Droopy Writing Story 59
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1955 The First Bad Man Writing Story 59
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1955 The Tall Men Writing Novel 59
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1955 Santa Fe Passage Writing Story 58
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1955 Field and Scream Writing Story 58
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1954 Dixieland Droopy Writing Story 59
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1954 The Flea Circus Writing Story 58
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1954 The Farm of Tomorrow Writing Story 58
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1954 Sleepy-Time Squirrel Writing Story 59
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1954 Billy Boy Writing Story 58
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1954 Drag-A-Long Droopy Writing Story 59
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1953 The Three Little Pups Writing Story 59
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1953 Half-Pint Palomino Writing Story 59
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1953 Wee-Willie Wildcat Writing Story 59
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1953 T.V. of Tomorrow Writing Story 59
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1953 Heir Bear Writing Story 59
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1953 Little Johnny Jet Writing Story 59
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1953 Cobs and Robbers Writing Story 58
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1953 Barney's Hungry Cousin Writing Story N/A
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1952 Busybody Bear Writing Story 58
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1952 Caballero Droopy Writing Story 59
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1952 Rock-a-Bye Bear Writing Story 59
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1949 Scrappy Birthday Writing Writer 59
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1948 Wild and Woody! Writing Story 59
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1948 The Cat That Hated People Writing Story 59
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1948 Wet Blanket Policy Writing Story 59
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1948 Half-Pint Pygmy Writing Story 58
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1947 King-Size Canary Writing Story 60
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1947 Slap Happy Lion Writing Story 59
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1947 Uncle Tom's Cabana Writing Writer 58
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1947 Red Hot Rangers Writing Writer 59
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1947 Hound Hunters Writing Writer 59
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1946 Henpecked Hoboes Writing Writer 58
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1946 Northwest Hounded Police Writing Story 59
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1946 The Hick Chick Writing Writer 58
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1946 Lonesome Lenny Writing Story 59
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1945 Wild and Woolfy Writing Story 59
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1945 Swing Shift Cinderella Writing Story 59
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1945 The Shooting of Dan McGoo Writing Writer 59
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1945 Jerky Turkey Writing Story 58
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1945 The Screwy Truant Writing Story 59
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1944 Big Heel-Watha Writing Writer 58
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1944 Screwball Squirrel Writing Story 59
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1943 Who Killed Who? Writing Story 59
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1942 Wild Honey, or, How to Get Along Without a Ration Book Writing Writer 59
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1939 The Bear That Couldn't Sleep Writing Writer 59
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1938 Cleaning House Writing Story 58
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