Who's Rich Hogan?

[Pietro]

I saw his name on the writer credits of a few Tex Avery and Chuck Jones cartoons from the early 40s at Warners and at MGM for Tex as well. I never heard much about him, who is he?

-Pietro:D

[rodney]

Who he is, I don't exactly know. I do know that he wrote Elmer's Pet Rabbit. Of course, I don't think that helps any.....

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by Pietro
I saw his name on the writer credits of a few Tex Avery and Chuck Jones cartoons from the early 40s at Warners and at MGM for Tex as well. I never heard much about him, who is he?

-Pietro:D

Rich Hogan was a storyman at the Schlesinger studio by the latter Thirties, and he was paired with Dave Monahan and Bob Givens in a writing partnership. So whenever you see one of their names... add the other two on (though Givens dropped out as writer after 1940). Hogan left with Tex Avery and background artist Johnny (John Didrick) Johnsen in the last few months of 1941 for MGM. There he worked with Tex till being drafted, and his place was taken at Metro by Rudy Ising's former storyman Heck (Henry) Allen. After the War Hogan did return to MGM for a while in the late Forties and early Fifties (Heck Allen kept getting fired). But Hogan never worked for Warners again (unlike Monahan and Givens ).

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by Sogturtle


Rich Hogan was a storyman at the Schlesinger studio by the latter Thirties, and he was paired with Dave Monahan and Bob Givens in a writing partnership. So whenever you see one of their names... add the other two on (though Givens dropped out as writer after 1940). Hogan left with Tex Avery and background artist Johnny (John Didrick) Johnsen in the last few months of 1941 for MGM. There he worked with Tex till being drafted, and his place was taken at Metro by Rudy Ising's former storyman Heck (Henry) Allen. After the War Hogan did return to MGM for a while in the late Forties and early Fifties (Heck Allen kept getting fired). But Hogan never worked for Warners again (unlike Monahan and Givens ).

Just doing a little more computing here on Rich Hogan... It would APPEAR that we should give him credit on no fewer than 49 Warners cartoons of the late Thirties and early Forties. This is arrived at by counting up the totals for each member of the team during the period while all three were active writing at Schlesinger's. (Undoubtedly some of these cartoons were more the work of one man than another, but the total is likely near the same)

To this we also would add some 25 KNOWN cartoons for Tex Avery at MGM. So Rich Hogan is most likely responsible for about 75 cartoons of the Warner & MGM golden age.

[Pietro]

Thanks again, Sogturtle!:)

-Pietro:D

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by Pietro
Thanks again, Sogturtle!:)

-Pietro:D

You're welcome, Mr. Shakarian!!

[Pilmedium]

Originally posted by Sogturtle
Heck (Henry) Allen

So, which one was his real name? :confused:

[Matt Yorston]

Henry, of course, was Heck Allen's real name (For some reason, I just can't picture any parent naming their child, Heck). To be precise, his full name was Henry Wilson Allen. For a long time, I thought the name "Heck" was a nickname for Hector but Henry was his name.

Where he got the name, Heck, I don't know. I don't think even he knew. In the interview with Heck Allen in Joe Adamson's book, "Tex Avery: King of Cartoons", Allen himself was asked where the name "Heck" came from. Allen's response: "Oh, I don't know. It's a childhood name. When I quit the cartoons, I just sort of left it with them. Looking back, the dropping of my name was intentional. It wasn't accidental."

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by Matt Yorston
Henry, of course, was Heck Allen's real name (For some reason, I just can't picture any parent naming their child, Heck). To be precise, his full name was Henry Wilson Allen. For a long time, I thought the name "Heck" was a nickname for Hector but Henry was his name.

Where he got the name, Heck, I don't know. I don't think even he knew. In the interview with Heck Allen in Joe Adamson's book, "Tex Avery: King of Cartoons", Allen himself was asked where the name "Heck" came from. Allen's response: "Oh, I don't know. It's a childhood name. When I quit the cartoons, I just sort of left it with them. Looking back, the dropping of my name was intentional. It wasn't accidental."

Annnnnd Heck Allen is the brother of MGM's Robert Allen (animator, director, layout artist, storyboard man etc.). Robert was with Harman-Ising from right after the break with Leon Schlesinger. When he jumped to director-ship and direct-employment by MGM he got younger brother "Heck" hired on as storyman. Heck later became a Western author, as Clay Allen, and Will Henry. Some of his Western stories were then made into feature films.