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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
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Tex Avery: King of Cartoons
1988 · Movie
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The River Changes
1956 · Movie
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Heir Bear
1953 · Movie
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Sleepy-Time Squirrel
1954 · Movie
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Rock-a-Bye Bear
1952 · Movie
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The Uninvited Pest
1943 · Movie
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Caballero Droopy
1952 · Movie
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Barney's Hungry Cousin
1953 · Movie
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Cellbound
1955 · Movie
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Drag-A-Long Droopy
1954 · Movie
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Who Killed Who?
1943 · Movie
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Busybody Bear
1952 · Movie
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Dixieland Droopy
1954 · Movie
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King-Size Canary
1947 · Movie
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Wet Blanket Policy
1948 · Movie
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Northwest Hounded Police
1946 · Movie
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Wee-Willie Wildcat
1953 · Movie
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The Bear and the Beavers
1942 · Movie
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Swing Shift Cinderella
1945 · Movie
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Deputy Droopy
1955 · Movie
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The Three Little Pups
1953 · Movie
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Mackenna's Gold
1969 · Movie
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The Shooting of Dan McGoo
1945 · Movie
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Little Johnny Jet
1953 · Movie
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Lonesome Lenny
1946 · Movie
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Wild Honey, or, How to Get Along Without a Ration Book
1942 · Movie
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Wild and Woolfy
1945 · Movie
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Slap Happy Lion
1947 · Movie
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Hound Hunters
1947 · Movie
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Wild and Woody!
1948 · Movie
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T.V. of Tomorrow
1953 · Movie
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Billy Boy
1954 · Movie
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The Tall Men
1955 · Movie
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The Screwy Truant
1945 · Movie
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The First Bad Man
1955 · Movie
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The Farm of Tomorrow
1954 · Movie
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Half-Pint Palomino
1953 · Movie
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Cobs and Robbers
1953 · Movie
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Field and Scream
1955 · Movie
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Red Hot Rangers
1947 · Movie
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Henpecked Hoboes
1946 · Movie
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Screwball Squirrel
1944 · Movie
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The Cat That Hated People
1948 · Movie
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Young Billy Young
1969 · Movie
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Yellowstone Kelly
1959 · Movie
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The Hick Chick
1946 · Movie
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Jerky Turkey
1945 · Movie
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Santa Fe Passage
1955 · Movie