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  • English Foxhound

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    Many a period English film featuring aristocracy also features a hunt scene. Let us know what other movies should be on this list with a fox hunt and foxhounds! The title links will take you to Amazon movie pages (Reel Dogs earns a referral fee at no cost to you) or, for rarer titles, alternative…

  • Finnish Spitz

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    The Finnish Spitz is both a rare breed and rare choice for film work, although they probably appear in more Finish and European movies. Let us know if you see any. The title links will take you to Amazon movie pages (Reel Dogs earns a referral fee at no cost to you) or, for rarer…

  • English Setter

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    English Setters have appeared in a wide range of films, including many major and starring roles. Most notably of all, an English Setter is the star of the only epic dog movie, the three-hour Soviet melodrama White Bim, Black Ear. The title links will take you to Amazon movie pages (Reel Dogs earns a referral…

  • English Coonhound

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    The English Coonhound, also known as the American English Coonhound or Redtick Coonhound, is far from a usual suspect when it comes to performing dogs. Surprisingly, though, you can see this breed in two main film roles from the 1930s and 1970s. The title links will take you to Amazon movie pages (Reel Dogs earns…

  • Tuffy

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    Before Chaser, the Border Collie who knew hundreds of objects by name in the 2010s, there was Tuffy, the Hollywood dog who stunned John Hopkins University scholars by correctly identifying and retrieving around fifty unique objects in the 1930s. As a puppy, Tuffy was given to Gerhardt Orvedahl, South Dakota cowboy, while he recovered from…

  • Bunk

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    During the rise of canine performers like Luke, Teddy, and Strongheart in silent-era Hollywood, Jack Hoxie was a noted rodeo-cowboy-turned-actor in westerns, gaining his first feature-film credit in 1919 after many shorts. In 1923 Hoxie sent away to Australia for a pregnant Australian Shepherd with the goal of raising the pups to be performing dogs.…

  • Koolie

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    The Koolie is rare on film as in life, but you can spot them occasionally, such as Russell Crowe’s sidekick in The Silver Brumby and the odd background dog in an Australian setting. (Also see Kelpie movies and Dingo movies.) The title links will take you to Amazon movie pages (Reel Dogs earns a referral…

  • Jean

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    Laurence Trimble, today remembered more for Strongheart, reportedly got his first film gig for his Rough Collie (or Scotch Collie at the time) simply by being in the right place at the right time. He’d actually come to Vitagraph Studios in New York to write an article on movie making, but ended up offering his…

  • Coffey and Bobby

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    Coffey was one of the stars of the German adaptation of The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. An Australian Shepherd born in April 2005, Coffey landed his first photo-shoot job at six months old. After a couple of commercials, it was six years before he snagged the role of “Timmy” through a German animal talent…

  • Old Yeller

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    Some of the most famous dog movies ever made starred rescue dogs. “Old Yeller” was no exception. Spike, a huge Labrador Retriever/Mastiff mix, was adopted by Frank Weatherwax (trainer of Lassie) from the Van Nuys Animal Shelter in California for $3.00. After his first film, Old Yeller (1957), Spike appeared on The Mickey Mouse Club…