Special effects and visual effects supervisor who entered the business as a special effects technician for THE BLACK HOLE (1979). He worked on a number of Canadian films in the early 1980s. Notable visual effects credits include THE ADVENTURES OF BOB & DOUG McKENZIE: STRANGE BREW (1983), MOONWALKER (1988), CLASS OF 1999 (1990), "Trilogy of Terror II" (1996, TV) and THE MIGHTY (1998). Allard's special effects credits include BRAINSTORM (1983), HEARTBREAKERS (1984), SHORT CIRCUIT and 52 PICK-UP (both 1986), ALLAN QUARTERMAIN AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD (1986), THE BLOB (1988), F/X2 (1991), TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES III, SLIVER and DEMOLITION MAN (all 1993), I LOVE TROUBLE (1994), STRANGE DAYS and HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (both 1995), THE JUROR and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (both 1996), ALIEN: RESURRECTION (1997), VIRUS, THE ASTRONAUT'S WIFE, BATS and STUART LITTLE (all 1999) and SPY KIDS, HEARTBREAKERS and RAT RACE (all 2001), SPIDER-MAN (2002), THE HUNTED, THE MATRIX RELOADED, THE ITALIAN JOB, ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO and BIG FISH (all 2003), MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST, WORLD TRADE CENTER, SNAKES ON A PLANE and TENACIOUS D IN THE PICK OF THE CENTURY (all 2006), and NEXT and CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR (both 2007).  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 1999: STUART LITTLE (w. John C. Dykstra, Jerome Chen & Henry F. Anderson, III) 1 nomination