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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.
Filmography
all 86
Movies 86
Writer 65
Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 3 (2021)
Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 2 (2020)
Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 (2020)
Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection (2007)
North Star (1996)
Into the Badlands (1991)
Tex Avery: King of Cartoons (1988)
Young Billy Young (1969)
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
Journey to Shiloh (1968)
Yellowstone Kelly (1959)
Pillars of the Sky (1956)
The River Changes (1956)
Cellbound (1955)
Deputy Droopy (1955)
The First Bad Man (1955)
The Tall Men (1955)
Santa Fe Passage (1955)
Field and Scream (1955)
Dixieland Droopy (1954)
The Flea Circus (1954)
The Farm of Tomorrow (1954)
Bird-Brain Bird Dog (1954)
Homesteader Droopy (1954)
Sleepy-Time Squirrel (1954)
Billy Boy (1954)
The Impossible Possum (1954)
Drag-A-Long Droopy (1954)
The Three Little Pups (1953)
Half-Pint Palomino (1953)
Wee-Willie Wildcat (1953)
T.V. of Tomorrow (1953)
Heir Bear (1953)
Little Johnny Jet (1953)
Cobs and Robbers (1953)
Barney's Hungry Cousin (1953)
Busybody Bear (1952)
The Little Wise Quacker (1952)
Caballero Droopy (1952)
Rock-a-Bye Bear (1952)
Sleep Happy (1951)
Puny Express (1951)
The House of Tomorrow (1949)
Drooler's Delight (1949)
Scrappy Birthday (1949)
Wild and Woody! (1948)
The Cat That Hated People (1948)
Dog Tax Dodgers (1948)
Lucky Ducky (1948)
Wet Blanket Policy (1948)
Half-Pint Pygmy (1948)
Little 'Tinker (1948)
What Price Fleadom (1948)
King-Size Canary (1947)
Slap Happy Lion (1947)
Uncle Tom's Cabana (1947)
Red Hot Rangers (1947)
Hound Hunters (1947)
Henpecked Hoboes (1946)
Northwest Hounded Police (1946)
The Hick Chick (1946)
Lonesome Lenny (1946)
Wild and Woolfy (1945)
Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)
The Shooting of Dan McGoo (1945)
Jerky Turkey (1945)
The Screwy Truant (1945)
Big Heel-Watha (1944)
Happy-Go-Nutty (1944)
Screwball Squirrel (1944)
Who Killed Who? (1943)
The Boy and the Wolf (1943)
Wild Honey, or, How to Get Along Without a Ration Book (1942)
Chips Off the Old Block (1942)
The Bear and the Beavers (1942)
The Flying Bear (1941)
Little Cesario (1941)
The Lonesome Stranger (1940)
Gallopin' Gals (1940)
The Homeless Flea (1940)
Home on the Range (1940)
The Bear That Couldn't Sleep (1939)
Jitterbug Follies (1939)
Buried Treasure (1938)
The Captain's Pup (1938)
Cleaning House (1938)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1912-09-29
Deathday1991-10-26 (79 years old)
Birth PlaceKansas City, Missouri, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsHenry Wilson Allen, Henry Allen, Will Henry, Clay Fisher
AwardsOwen Wister Award
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