Editing Rex Allen (section)

==Later career==
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 series westerns faded by the mid 1950s. But he starred in a number of B-Westerns during the 1950s.<ref name="LarkinGE"/>

As other cowboy stars made the transition to television, Allen tried too, cast as Dr. Bill Baxter for the half-hour weekly syndicated series ''[[Frontier Doctor]]''.<ref name="etvs">{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010|date=2011|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0786464777|page=370|edition=2nd}}</ref> In 1961, he was one of five rotating hosts for NBC-TV's ''[[Five Star Jubilee]]''.

Allen 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.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> The work earned him the nickname, "The Voice of the West." He narrated ''[[The Legend of Lobo]]'', ''[[The Incredible Journey (film)|The Incredible Journey]]'', ''Yellowstone Cubs'', ''Run, Appaloosa, Run'', and [[Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar]]. He also was the voice of the father on [[Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress]], first presented at the [[1964 World's Fair]] and 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 (1973 film)|Charlotte's Web]]''.<ref name="LarkinGE"/>  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]]''.