
David Allen
Visual Effects
1944-10-22 · Los Angeles, California, USA
David W. Allen (October 22, 1944 – August 16, 1999) was an American film and television stop motion model (puppet) animator. Allen provided special effects on such productions as The Howling, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Young Sherlock Holmes (for which he earned an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects nomination), Willow and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. He also had a long association with producer Charles Band, working on such films as Dolls, Puppet Master, Bride of Re-Animator, Subspecies and Demonic Toys.
Filmography

Lost to Time: Unearthing the Primevals
2024 · Movie

The Primevals
2023 · Movie

The Magic Treasure
2006 · Movie

Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’
2003 · Movie

Galgameth
1997 · Movie

Oblivion 2: Backlash
1996 · Movie

Prehysteria! 3
1995 · Movie

Prehysteria! 2
1994 · Movie

Puppet Master 5
1994 · Movie

Oblivion
1994 · Movie

Bloodlust: Subspecies III
1994 · Movie

Puppet Master 4
1993 · Movie

Freaked
1993 · Movie

Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
1993 · Movie

Prehysteria!
1993 · Movie

Robot Wars
1993 · Movie

Doctor Mordrid
1992 · Movie

Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge
1992 · Movie

Highway to Hell
1991 · Movie

Subspecies
1991 · Movie

Crash and Burn
1990 · Movie

Puppet Master II
1990 · Movie

Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master II"
1990 · Movie

No Strings Attached: A Behind the Scenes Look at Puppet Master
1989 · Movie

Dolls
1987 · Movie

Young Sherlock Holmes
1985 · Movie

The Stuff
1985 · Movie

The Dungeonmaster
1984 · Movie

Journeys through the Darkzone
1984 · Movie

Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983 · Movie

The Hunger
1983 · Movie

Vincent
1982 · Movie

Q
1982 · Movie

Caveman
1981 · Movie

The Howling
1981 · Movie

Laserblast
1978 · Movie

Flesh Gordon
1974 · Movie

Zorgon: The H-Bomb Beast From Hell
1972 · Movie

King Kong Color Test Footage
1971 · Movie

Equinox
1970 · Movie

Raiders of the Stone Ring
1968 · Movie

The Equinox ... A Journey into the Supernatural
1967 · Movie

Taurus Test Footage
1965 · Movie

The Gumby Show
1956 · Series