Heck Allen
Writer, Actor
September 12, 1912 — October 26, 1991 (79 years)
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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.
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
Filmography
| 1996 | |
| 1982 | |
| 1969 | Young Billy Young · as Novel |
| 1969 | Mackenna's Gold · as Novel |
| 1968 | Journey to Shiloh · as Novel |
| 1957 | |
| 1956 | |
| 1956 | Pillars of the Sky · as Novel |
| 1955 | The Tall Men · as Novel |
| 1946 | |
| 1945 |
| 1945 | Wild and Woolfy · as Slim Wolf |
| 1988 | Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons · as Himself |
| 1996 | North Star · as Novel "the North Star"On Plex |
| 1991 | Into the Badlands · as Short Story |
| 1988 | Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons · as Stories: Classic Cartoons |
| 1959 | Yellowstone Kelly · as Book |
| 1955 | Cellbound · as Story |
| 1955 | Deputy Droopy · as Story |
| 1955 | The First Bad Man · as Story |
| 1955 | Santa Fe Passage · as StoryOn Plex |
| 1954 | Dixieland Droopy · as Story |
| 1954 | The Farm of Tomorrow · as Story |
| 1954 | Homesteader Droopy · as Story |
| 1954 | Billy Boy · as Story |
| 1954 | Drag-A-Long Droopy · as Story |
| 1953 | The Three Little Pups · as Story |
| 1953 | T.V. of Tomorrow · as Story |
| 1953 | Little Johnny Jet · as Story |
| 1952 | Rock-a-Bye Bear · as Story |
| 1949 | The House of Tomorrow · as Story |
| 1948 | The Cat That Hated People · as Story |
| 1948 | Lucky Ducky · as Story |
| 1948 | Little 'Tinker · as Story |
| 1947 | King-Size Canary · as Story |
| 1947 | Slap Happy Lion · as Story |
| 1946 | Northwest Hounded Police · as Story |
| 1946 | Lonesome Lenny · as Story |
| 1945 | Wild and Woolfy · as Story |
| 1945 | Swing Shift Cinderella · as Story |
| 1945 | Jerky Turkey · as Story |
| 1945 | The Screwy Truant · as Story |
| 1944 | Happy-Go-Nutty · as Story |
| 1944 | Screwball Squirrel · as Story |
| 1943 | Who Killed Who? · as Story |