Acting credits
5
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
David Allen
Visual Effects
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
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Movies: 42Series: 1Crew credits: 38
TMDB ID: 187067
IMDb ID: nm0020406
Known for: Visual Effects
Born: October 22, 1944
Died: August 16, 1999
Age: 54
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1956 - 2024
Years active: 69
Average TMDB rating: 5.52
Wikidata: Q15804765
Other jobs
Visual Effects (14)Animation (5)Director (5)Special Effects (4)Visual Effects Supervisor (4)Thanks (2)Visual Effects Director (2)Story (1)
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with David Allen.
as Self
Lost to Time: Unearthing the Primevals
2024 • Movie
Story
The Primevals
2023 • Movie
Director
The Magic Treasure
2006 • Movie
as Self (archive)
Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’
2003 • Movie
Visual Effects Supervisor
Galgameth
1997 • Movie
Visual Effects Director
Oblivion 2: Backlash
1996 • Movie
Visual Effects
Prehysteria! 3
1995 • Movie
Visual Effects
Prehysteria! 2
1994 • Movie
Visual Effects
Puppet Master 5
1994 • Movie
Visual Effects Director
Oblivion
1994 • Movie
Animation
Bloodlust: Subspecies III
1994 • Movie
Visual Effects
Puppet Master 4
1993 • Movie
Animation
Freaked
1993 • Movie
Animation
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
1993 • Movie
VFX Supervisor
Prehysteria!
1993 • Movie
Visual Effects
Robot Wars
1993 • Movie
Animation
Doctor Mordrid
1992 • Movie
Visual Effects
Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge
1992 • Movie
Thanks
Highway to Hell
1991 • Movie
Visual Effects
Subspecies
1991 • Movie
Special Effects
Crash and Burn
1990 • Movie
Visual Effects Supervisor
Puppet Master II
1990 • Movie
as Self
Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master II"
1990 • Movie
No Strings Attached: A Behind the Scenes Look at Puppet Master
1989 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with David Allen.
