Background
Case grew up in Dallas, Texas.
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Allen Case
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He attended Southern Methodist University but left in his junior year to audition for the Arthur Godfrey Talent Scout Show in New New York
Career
In 1955, Columbia Records signed him to a contract and he starred in his first Broadway show, "Reuben, Reuben." He toured with such musicals as "South Pacific," "Damn Yankees" and "My Fair Lady,". Case made more than thirty television appearances between 1958 and 1982, often in cowboy roles, such as on the American Broadcasting Company/Warner Brothers western series, Colt.45, starring Wayde Preston. On September 30, 1958, a year before The Deputy debuted, Case played a hot-headed young deputy, Bud Wilkins, in the episode "Brink of Fear", of the American Broadcasting Company/World Bank western series, Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins.
The episode is a lesson about the line of good and evil in the human heart.
Other appearing in the episode are Venetia Stevenson, Harry Antrim, and Don Gordon. On December 3, 1959, Case appeared on National Broadcasting Company"s The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, a variety program with a Country and Western theme.
Case made three guest appearances on the Columbia Broadcasting System courtroom drama series Perry Mason including the role of defendant Adam Conrad in the 1964 episode, "The Case of the Ruinous Road."
In the 1965–1966 season, Case co-starred as Frank James with Christopher Jones in the American Broadcasting Company Western series The Legend of Jesse James. Buoyed by his role on The Deputy, Case made personal appearances.
In 1961, he came to Shreveport, Louisiana, to appear on KWKH radio and at the rodeo, at which he played Johnny Horton"s guitar.
While on vacation he died after suffering a heart attack in Truckee, California, at the age of 51.
