Heck Allen
Writing
1912-09-12 · 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 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
Into the Badlands
1991 · Movie
Tex Avery: King of Cartoons
1988 · Movie
Young Billy Young
1969 · Movie
Mackenna's Gold
1969 · Movie
Journey to Shiloh
1968 · Movie
Yellowstone Kelly
1959 · Movie
Pillars of the Sky
1956 · Movie
The River Changes
1956 · Movie
Cellbound
1955 · Movie
Deputy Droopy
1955 · Movie
The First Bad Man
1955 · Movie
The Tall Men
1955 · Movie
Santa Fe Passage
1955 · Movie
Field and Scream
1955 · Movie
Dixieland Droopy
1954 · Movie
The Flea Circus
1954 · Movie
The Farm of Tomorrow
1954 · Movie
Sleepy-Time Squirrel
1954 · Movie
Billy Boy
1954 · Movie
Drag-A-Long Droopy
1954 · Movie
The Three Little Pups
1953 · Movie
Half-Pint Palomino
1953 · Movie
Wee-Willie Wildcat
1953 · Movie
T.V. of Tomorrow
1953 · Movie
Heir Bear
1953 · Movie
Little Johnny Jet
1953 · Movie
Cobs and Robbers
1953 · Movie
Barney's Hungry Cousin
1953 · Movie
Busybody Bear
1952 · Movie
Caballero Droopy
1952 · Movie
Rock-a-Bye Bear
1952 · Movie
The House of Tomorrow
1949 · Movie
Scrappy Birthday
1949 · Movie
Wild and Woody!
1948 · Movie
The Cat That Hated People
1948 · Movie
Wet Blanket Policy
1948 · Movie
Half-Pint Pygmy
1948 · Movie
King-Size Canary
1947 · Movie
Slap Happy Lion
1947 · Movie
Uncle Tom's Cabaña
1947 · Movie
Red Hot Rangers
1947 · Movie
Hound Hunters
1947 · Movie
Henpecked Hoboes
1946 · Movie
Northwest Hounded Police
1946 · Movie
The Hick Chick
1946 · Movie
Lonesome Lenny
1946 · Movie
Wild and Woolfy
1945 · Movie
Swing Shift Cinderella
1945 · Movie
The Shooting of Dan McGoo
1945 · Movie
Jerky Turkey
1945 · Movie
The Screwy Truant
1945 · Movie
Big Heel-Watha
1944 · Movie
Screwball Squirrel
1944 · Movie
The Uninvited Pest
1943 · Movie
Who Killed Who?
1943 · Movie
Wild Honey, or, How to Get Along Without a Ration Book
1942 · Movie
The Bear and the Beavers
1942 · Movie
The Bear That Couldn't Sleep
1939 · Movie
Cleaning House
1938 · Movie