Heck Allen (1912-1991)

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Alias:
Clay Fisher
Henry Allen
Henry Wilson Allen
Will Henry

Birthplace:
Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Born:
September 12, 1912

Died:
October 26, 1991

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.

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Book:
1959  Yellowstone Kelly

Novel:
1955  The Tall Men
1956  Pillars of the Sky
1959  Yellowstone Kelly
1968  Journey to Shiloh
1969  Mackenna's Gold
1969  Young Billy Young

Short Story:
1955  The Tall Men
1956  Pillars of the Sky
1959  Yellowstone Kelly
1968  Journey to Shiloh
1969  Mackenna's Gold
1969  Young Billy Young
1991  Into the Badlands

Story:
1938  Cleaning House
1943  Who Killed Who?
1944  Screwball Squirrel
1945  Jerky Turkey
1945  Swing Shift Cinderella
1945  The Screwy Truant
1945  Wild and Woolfy
1946  Lonesome Lenny
1946  Northwest Hounded Police
1947  King-Size Canary
1947  Slap Happy Lion
1948  Half-Pint Pygmy
1948  The Cat That Hated People
1948  Wet Blanket Policy
1948  Wild and Woody!
1952  Busybody Bear
1952  Caballero Droopy
1952  Rock-a-Bye Bear
1953  Barney's Hungry Cousin
1953  Cobs and Robbers
1953  Half-Pint Palomino
1953  Heir Bear
1953  Little Johnny Jet
1953  T.V. of Tomorrow
1953  The Three Little Pups
1953  Wee-Willie Wildcat
1954  Billy Boy
1954  Dixieland Droopy
1954  Drag-A-Long Droopy
1954  Sleepy-Time Squirrel
1954  The Farm of Tomorrow
1954  The Flea Circus
1955  Cellbound
1955  Deputy Droopy
1955  Field and Scream
1955  Santa Fe Passage
1955  The First Bad Man
1955  The Tall Men
1956  Pillars of the Sky
1959  Yellowstone Kelly
1968  Journey to Shiloh
1969  Mackenna's Gold
1969  Young Billy Young
1991  Into the Badlands

Writer:
1938  Cleaning House
1939  The Bear That Couldn't Sleep
1943  Who Killed Who?
1944  Big Heel-Watha
1944  Screwball Squirrel
1945  Jerky Turkey
1945  Swing Shift Cinderella
1945  The Screwy Truant
1945  The Shooting of Dan McGoo
1945  Wild and Woolfy
1946  Henpecked Hoboes
1946  Lonesome Lenny
1946  Northwest Hounded Police
1946  The Hick Chick
1947  Hound Hunters
1947  King-Size Canary
1947  Red Hot Rangers
1947  Slap Happy Lion
1947  Uncle Tom's Cabana
1948  Half-Pint Pygmy
1948  The Cat That Hated People
1948  Wet Blanket Policy
1948  Wild and Woody!
1949  Scrappy Birthday
1952  Busybody Bear
1952  Caballero Droopy
1952  Rock-a-Bye Bear
1953  Barney's Hungry Cousin
1953  Cobs and Robbers
1953  Half-Pint Palomino
1953  Heir Bear
1953  Little Johnny Jet
1953  T.V. of Tomorrow
1953  The Three Little Pups
1953  Wee-Willie Wildcat
1954  Billy Boy
1954  Dixieland Droopy
1954  Drag-A-Long Droopy
1954  Sleepy-Time Squirrel
1954  The Farm of Tomorrow
1954  The Flea Circus
1955  Cellbound
1955  Deputy Droopy
1955  Field and Scream
1955  Santa Fe Passage
1955  The First Bad Man
1955  The Tall Men
1956  Pillars of the Sky
1959  Yellowstone Kelly
1968  Journey to Shiloh
1969  Mackenna's Gold
1969  Young Billy Young
1991  Into the Badlands
2007  Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection
2020  Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1
2020  Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 2
2021  Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 3

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