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Heck Allen
Kansas 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 pseudon…
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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.
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1991
Into the Badlands
Movie Short Story
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1988
Tex Avery: King of Cartoons
Movie Himself
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1969
Young Billy Young
Movie Novel
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1969
Mackenna's Gold
Movie Novel
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1968
Journey to Shiloh
Movie Novel
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1959
Yellowstone Kelly
Movie Book
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1956
Pillars of the Sky
Movie Novel
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1956
The River Changes
Movie The Leader
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1955
Cellbound
Movie Story
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1955
Deputy Droopy
Movie Story
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1955
The First Bad Man
Movie Story
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1955
The Tall Men
Movie Novel
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1955
Santa Fe Passage
Movie Story
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1955
Field and Scream
Movie Story
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1954
Dixieland Droopy
Movie Story
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1954
The Flea Circus
Movie Story
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1954
The Farm of Tomorrow
Movie Story
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1954
Sleepy-Time Squirrel
Movie Story
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1954
Billy Boy
Movie Story
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1954
Drag-A-Long Droopy
Movie Story
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1953
The Three Little Pups
Movie Story
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1953
Half-Pint Palomino
Movie Story
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1953
Wee-Willie Wildcat
Movie Story
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1953
T.V. of Tomorrow
Movie Story
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1953
Heir Bear
Movie Story
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1953
Little Johnny Jet
Movie Story
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1953
Cobs and Robbers
Movie Story
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1953
Barney's Hungry Cousin
Movie Story
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1952
Busybody Bear
Movie Story
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1952
Caballero Droopy
Movie Story
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1952
Rock-a-Bye Bear
Movie Story
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1949
The House of Tomorrow
Movie Story
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1949
Scrappy Birthday
Movie Writer
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1948
Wild and Woody!
Movie Various Townspeople (voice)
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1948
The Cat That Hated People
Movie Story
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1948
Wet Blanket Policy
Movie Story
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1948
Half-Pint Pygmy
Movie Story
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1947
King-Size Canary
Movie Story
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1947
Slap Happy Lion
Movie Story
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1947
Uncle Tom's Cabaña
Movie Writer
