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Rex Elvie Allen (December 31, 1920 – December 17, 1999) was an American film actor, singer and songwriter, known as the Arizona Cowboy, particularly known as the narrator in many Disney nature and Western film productions. For contributions to the recording industry, Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Allen was born to Horace E. Allen and Luella Faye Clark on a ranch
in Mud Springs Canyon, 40 miles from Willcox, Arizona. As a boy he played guitar and sang at local functions with his fiddle-playing father until high school graduation when he toured the Southwest as a rodeo rider. He got his start in show business on the East Coast as a vaudeville singer, then found work in Chicago as a performer on the WLS-AM program, National Barn Dance. He left the show in 1949 and moved to Hollywood. In 1948 he signed with Mercury Records where he recorded a number of successful country music albums until 1952, when he switched to the Decca label where he continued to make records into the 1970s. He also recorded one album for Buena Vista (Disney, pictured) in the 1960s, although sources vary on the date of issue.
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When singing cowboys such as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were very much in vogue in American film, in 1949 Republic Pictures in Hollywood gave him a screen test and put him under contract. Beginning in 1950, Allen starred as himself in 19 of Hollywood’s Western movies. One of the top-ten box office draws of the day, whose character was soon depicted in comic books, on screen Allen personified the clean cut, God-fearing American hero of the wild West who wore a white Stetson hat, loved his faithful horse Koko, and had a loyal buddy who shared his adventures. Allen’s comic relief sidekick in first few pictures was Buddy Ebsen and then character actor Slim Pickens. He gained the nickname, The Arizona Cowboy.
Allen wrote and recorded many songs, a number of which were featured in his own films. Late in coming to the industry, his film career was relatively short as the popularity of westerns faded by the mid 1950s. But he starred in a number of B-Westerns during the 1950s, often filming on the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif., known for its huge sandstone boulders and widely recognized as the most heavily filmed outdoor shooting location in the history of the movies.
Rex Allen has the distinction of making the last singing western in 1954. As other cowboy stars made the transition to television, Allen tried too, cast as Dr. Bill Baxter for a half-hour weekly series called Frontier Doctor, which filmed much of its outdoor action on the Republic Pictures backlot and at the Iverson Movie Ranch. In 1961 he was one of five rotating hosts for NBC-TV’s Five Star Jubilee.
He had a rich, pleasant voice, ideally suited for narration, and was able to find considerable work as a narrator in a variety of films, especially for Walt Disney Pictures wildlife films and television shows. The work earned him the nickname, “The Voice of the West.” Most notably, perhaps, he narrated the original 1963 version of The Incredible Journey. He also was the voice of the father on Disney’s Carousel of Progress, first presented at the 1964 World’s Fair and is now at Walt Disney World. A 1993 renovation replaced Allen with Jean Shepherd as the voice of the father, but Allen was given a cameo as the grandfather in the final scene.
Allen provided the narration for the 1973 Hanna-Barbera animated film Charlotte’s Web. He was also the voice behind Purina Dog Chow commercials for many years. After moving to Sonoita, Arizona in the early 1990s, he was a viable voice talent almost until his death, recording hundreds of national advertising voice tracks at his favorite Tucson studio, Porter Sound. In his later years he also performed frequently with actor Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez.He wrote and sang the theme song for the early 1980s sitcom Best of the West.
Acting credits
1957-1986 Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color (TV Series)
Narrator / Announcer / Narrator (segment “Arizona Sheepdog”)
– Walt Disney World’s 15th Anniversary Celebration (1986) … Announcer
– The Shaggy D.A. (1978) … Narrator (voice)
– The Secret of Old Glory Mine (1976) … Narrator (voice)
– Ringo, the Refugee Raccoon (1974) … Narrator (voice)
– The Yellowstone Cubs (1965) … Narrator
– The Hound That Thought He Was a Raccoon (1963) … Narrator
– The Horse of the West (1957) … Narrator
– The Best Doggoned Dog in the World (1957) … Narrator (segment “Arizona Sheepdog”)
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1986 Hold the Back Page (TV Mini-Series)
Bowls umpire
– Fathers, Sons and Lovers (1986) … Bowls umpire
1980 Foods and Fun: A Nutrition Adventure (Short) (voice)
1976 The Secret of Old Glory Mine (TV Movie)
Narrator
1976 The Secret of Navajo Cave
Narrator
1973 Charlotte’s Web
Narrator (voice)
1971 The Virginian (TV Series)
Square Dance Caller
– Tate, Ramrod (1971) … Square Dance Caller
1967 Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar
Narrator
1966 Run, Appaloosa, Run
Narrator
1966 Swamp Country
Sheriff
1963 The Incredible Journey
Narrator
1963 Yellowstone Cubs
Narrator (voice)
1962 The Legend of Lobo
Narrator
1961 Tomboy and the Champ
Rex Allen
1961 The Saga of Windwagon Smith (Short)
Narrator / Windwagon Smith (voice)
1960 For the Love of Mike
Rex Allen
1960 The Hound That Thought He Was a Raccoon
Narrator
1958-1959 Frontier Doctor (TV Series)
Dr. Bill Baxter
– Man to Man (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Flaming Gold (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– The Counterfeiters (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– The Confidence Gang (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Strange Cargo (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Elkton Lake Feud (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Superstition Mountain (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Gringo Pete (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– The Twisted Road (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– South of the Rio Grande (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Danger Valley (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– The Homesteaders (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Drifting Sands (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– The Big Frame Up (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Strangers in Town (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– The Big Gamblers (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Law of the Badlands (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Storm over King City (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– The Woman Who Dared (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Broken Barrier (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Bittercreek Gang (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Belle of Tennessee (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Sabotage (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Illegal Entry (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Shadow of Belle Starr (1959) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Trouble in Paradise Valley (1958) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Shotgun Hattie (1958) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Iron Trail Ambush (1958) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– The Great Stagecoach Robbery (1958) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– The Desperate Game (1958) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Fury of the Big Top (1958) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– The Outlaw Legion (1958) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Mystery of the Black Stallion (1958) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Double Boomerang (1958) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– The Apache Uprising (1958) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Crooked Circle (1958) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Three Wanted Men (1958) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– San Francisco Story (1958) … Dr. Bill Baxter
– Queen of the Cimarron (1958) … Dr. Bill Baxter
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1957 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series)
Pecos Pete
– Freddie the Star (1957) … Pecos Pete
1954 Rails Into Laramie
Title Song Singer
1954 Phantom Stallion
Rex Allen
1953 Red River Shore
Marshal Rex Allen
1953 Shadows of Tombstone
Rancher Rex Allen
1953 Down Laredo Way
Rex Allen
1953 Sweethearts on Parade
Jim Riley (singing voice, uncredited)
1953 Iron Mountain Trail
Rex Allen
1953 Old Overland Trail
Rex Allen
1952 South Pacific Trail
Rex Allen
1952 Old Oklahoma Plains
Rex Allen
1952 I Dream of Jeanie
Mr. Tambo
1952 Border Saddlemates
Dr. Rex Allen
1952 The Last Musketeer
Rex Allen
1952 Colorado Sundown
Rex Allen
1951 Utah Wagon Train
Rex Allen
1951 Rodeo King and the Senorita
Rex Allen
1951 Thunder in God’s Country
Rex Allen
1951 Silver City Bonanza
Rex Allen
1950 Trail of Robin Hood
Rex Allen The Arizona Cowboy
1950 Under Mexicali Stars
Rex Allen aka Mike Jordan
1950 Redwood Forest Trail
Rex Allen
1950 Hills of Oklahoma
Rex Allen
1950 The Arizona Cowboy
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