Warren Herbert Chaney (born November 3, 1942) is an American author, filmmaker, behavioral scientist, and business executive. He is also an artist, entertainer and a pioneer in early television. In a career spanning four decades, Chaney wrote twenty-four books, seventeen screenplays, and one hundred eighty-six professional and nonprofessional magazine and journal articles. He wrote nine songs used in feature films and eight for theatrical productions. From 1978 to 1994, he wrote entries for Collier's Encyclopedia, considered by Kister's Best Encyclopedias, to be the best written of the commercial encyclopedias. Chaney produced ten motion pictures, wrote seventeen and directed nine. He is probably best known for his films America: A Call to Greatness starring Charlton Heston, Mickey Rooney, and Peter Graves; Behind the Mask (1992 film) starring Roy Alan Wilson and Deborah Winters; Aloha Summer starring Chris Makepeace, Don Michael Paul and Tia Carrere, and the pioneering 60s television series, Magic Mansion. He worked professionally as an entertainer during his college and young adult years eventually serving on the board of advisors for Vent Haven Museum, the board of advisors for the International Ventriloquists' Association and in June 2006, received the Order of Merlin award from the International Brotherhood of Magicians.