This article is about the film and television animator, for other persons of the same name see David Allen.David W. Allen (October 22, 1944 – August 16, 1999) was a film and television stop motion model (puppet) animator.Considered among the finest stop motion model animators, Dave Allen has contributed some of the best stop motion sequences to many feature films, rivaling the work of other premier model animators Ray Harryhausen and Jim Danforth.