Heck Allen

Known for WritingBorn 1912-09-12Died 1991-10-26Kansas City, Missouri, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Tex Avery: King of Cartoons

The River Changes

Heir Bear

Sleepy-Time Squirrel

Rock-a-Bye Bear

The Uninvited Pest

Caballero Droopy

Barney's Hungry Cousin

Cellbound

Drag-A-Long Droopy

Who Killed Who?

Busybody Bear

Dixieland Droopy

King-Size Canary

Wet Blanket Policy

Northwest Hounded Police

Wee-Willie Wildcat

The Bear and the Beavers

Swing Shift Cinderella

Deputy Droopy

The Three Little Pups

Mackenna's Gold

The House of Tomorrow

The Shooting of Dan McGoo

Little Johnny Jet

Lonesome Lenny

Wild Honey, or, How to Get Along Without a Ration Book

Wild and Woolfy

Slap Happy Lion

Hound Hunters

Wild and Woody!

T.V. of Tomorrow

Billy Boy

The Tall Men

The Screwy Truant

The First Bad Man

The Farm of Tomorrow

Half-Pint Palomino

Cobs and Robbers

Field and Scream

Red Hot Rangers

Henpecked Hoboes

Screwball Squirrel

Yellowstone Kelly

The Cat That Hated People

Young Billy Young

The Hick Chick

Jerky Turkey