Rex Elvie Allen was an American

United States

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 film actor, singer and songwriter, known as the Arizona Cowboy, particularly known as the narrator in many Disney

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 nature and Western

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 film productions. For contributions to the recording industry, Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Allen was born to Horace E. Allen and Luella Faye Clark on a ranch in Mud Springs Canyon, 40 miles from Willcox, Arizona

Willcox, Arizona

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. 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.