David Allen
- Visual effects
- October 22, 1944 · Los Angeles, California, USA
- August 16, 1999
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Lost to Time: Unearthing the Primevals · Self
- The Primevals · Story, Visual Effects
- The Magic Treasure · Director
- Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’ · Self
- Galgameth · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Oblivion 2: Backlash · Visual Effects Director, Visual Effects
- Prehysteria! 3 · Visual Effects
- Prehysteria! 2 · Visual Effects
- Puppet Master 5 · Visual Effects
- Oblivion · Visual Effects Director, Visual Effects
- Bloodlust: Subspecies III · Animation
- Puppet Master 4 · Visual Effects
- Freaked · Animation
- Dollman vs. Demonic Toys · Animation
- Prehysteria! · VFX Supervisor
- Robot Wars · Visual Effects
- Doctor Mordrid · Animation
- Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge · Visual Effects
- Highway to Hell · Thanks
- Subspecies · Visual Effects, Visual Effects Director
- Crash and Burn · Special Effects, Visual Effects
- Puppet Master II · Visual Effects Supervisor, Director
- Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master II" · Self
- No Strings Attached: A Behind the Scenes Look at Puppet Master
- Dolls · Visual Effects, Special Effects
- Young Sherlock Holmes · Visual Effects Supervisor
- The Stuff · Visual Effects
- The Dungeonmaster · Director, Writer
- Twilight Zone: The Movie · Visual Effects
- The Hunger · Animation, Special Effects
- Vincent · Thanks
- Q · Visual Effects
- Caveman · Visual Effects Supervisor
- The Howling · Visual Effects
- Laserblast · Visual Effects
- Flesh Gordon · Visual Effects
- Zorgon: The H-Bomb Beast From Hell · Zorgon
- King Kong Color Test Footage · Director, Animation
- Equinox · Special Effects
- Raiders of the Stone Ring · Director, Writer
- The Equinox ... A Journey into the Supernatural · Special Effects
- Taurus Test Footage · Director
- The Gumby Show · Special Effects