Heck Allen
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- September 12, 1912, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Died
- October 26, 1991
- Movies
- 15
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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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1988 | Tex Avery: King of Cartoons | Himself |
| 1956 | The River Changes | The Leader |
| 1948 | Wild and Woody! | Various Townspeople (voice) |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1949 | Scrappy Birthday | Writer |
| 1947 | Uncle Tom's Cabaña | Writer |
| 1947 | Red Hot Rangers | Writer |
| 1947 | Hound Hunters | Writer |
| 1946 | Henpecked Hoboes | Writer |
| 1946 | The Hick Chick | Writer |
| 1945 | The Shooting of Dan McGoo | Writer |
| 1944 | Big Heel-Watha | Writer |
| 1943 | The Uninvited Pest | Writer |
| 1942 | Wild Honey, or, How to Get Along Without a Ration Book | Writer |
| 1942 | The Bear and the Beavers | Writer |
| 1939 | The Bear That Couldn't Sleep | Writer |
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