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Character Name:Lady
Breed of Dog: Cocker Spaniel
Film: Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Film Trivia: The famous spaghetti scene and the following night in the park is one of the most romantic moments in all of Disney animation. According to legend, the film's opening sequence, in which Darling unwraps a hat box on Christmas morning and finds Lady inside, is based upon an actual incident in Walt Disney's life. After he'd forgotten a dinner date with his wife, he made it up to her by offering her the puppy-in-the-hat-box surprise and was immediately forgiven. The sequel to the film is called Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure. |
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Character Name: Pongo
Breed of Dog: Dalmatian
Film: 101 Dalmatian (1996)
Film Trivia: 101 Dalmatians is a live-action film produced by Walt Disney Pictures in 1996. It is a remake of the 1961 animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians (which in turn was based on Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians). The car that Cruella de Vil drives is a Panther DeVille.
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Character Name: Buddy
Breed of Dog: Golden Retriever
Film: Air Bud (1997)
Film Trivia: The plot revolves around a 12-year-old boy, Josh, who has an interest in basketball. Through a series of coincidences, Josh meets Buddy, a Golden Retriever who escaped his cruel owner. Josh soon learns that Buddy has an uncanny ability to play the sport of basketball. The movie generated one theater-released sequel and many direct-to-video sequels. In each film, Buddy learns to play a different sport. |
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Character Name:Scooby Doo
Breed of Dog: Great Dane
Film: Scooby-Doo (2002)
Film Trivia: Scooby-Doo is live-action film, based on the popular Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon. Scooby-Doo was created on screen using computer-generated imagery, he was voicedby Neil Fanning. In 2004 the film was followed by a sequel entitled Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. |
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Name: Bobby
Breed of Dog: Skye Terrier
Film: GreyFriars Bobby (2006)
Film Trivia: True Story adapted to film. Bobby's owner, John Gray, worked for the Edinburgh Police Department as a night watchman until he died of tuberculosis on 15 February. Bobby, who survived with John for 14 years, is said to have spent the rest of his life sitting on his master's grave. Today, a small statue of Greyfriars Bobby stands in front of a pub, also called Greyfriars Bobby, which is located in front of Greyfriars kirkyard.
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Character Name:Lassie
Breed of Dog: Rough Collie
Film&TV: The Adventures of Lassie
Trivia: Lassie, a female Rough Collie, who some say is 'the world's most famous dog' and a fictional character who has starred in many radio shows, movies, TV shows, and books from 1938 through 2006. The character of Lassie was created by British-American author Eric Knight in Lassie Come-Home, published as a short story in the Saturday Evening Post in 1938 and as a novel in 1940. The first dog to play the role of Lassie was Pal, originally from Glamis Collies of California. Nine direct line descendants of Pal have performed as Lassie. All 9 Lassies have been male, playing a female character. |
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Character Name: Jerry Lee
Breed of Dog: German Shepherd
Film: K9 (1989)
Film Trivia: James Belushi plays police detective Michael Dooley, who has been tagged for execution by a major international drug dealer. Dooley is given a police dog, "Jerry Lee,"who is trained to sniff drugs. The two attempt to solve the crime, but Dooley soon learns that Jerry Lee works only when he wants to. Many of the movie's gags revolve around Jerry Lee's playfully destructive episodes. Jerry Lee was played by Koton, a real-life police dog from the Kansas City, Missouri police department.
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Character Name: Angus McBarker
Breed of Dog: Bulldog
TV&Film: Mr Magoo (1949 - 1997)
Trivia: Mr Magoo orginated from a cartoon character created by John Hubley in 1949. Magoo is a wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of sticky situations as a result of his nearsightedness, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem, in which the affected people (or animals) think that he is a lunatic, rather than just being near-sighted. In 1997, during a fad for live-action films based on cartoon characters, Mr. Magoo was portrayed by Leslie Nielsen in a live-action Mr. Magoo feature film. |
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Character Name: Butkus
Breed of Dog: Bull Mastiff
Film: Rocky (1976) , Rocky II (1979)
Film Trivia: In the Film Butkus was given to Rocky as a gift from Adrian to keep him company while he trained. In Real Life Butkus was Sylvester Stallone's dog; Stallone took the 145-pound Butkus on the three-day train trip from L.A. to Philadelphia for the exterior filming of the film.
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Character Name: Rin Tin Tin
Breed of Dog: German Shepherd
Film&TV: Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (From 1922)
Trivia: In Real Life Rin Tin Tin was a pup found by American serviceman Lee Duncan in France a few months before the end of WW1. Named for a puppet called Rintintin that French children gave to the American soldiers for good luck, the dog returned at war's end with Duncan to his home in LA, California. Nicknamed Rinty by his owner, the dog learned tricks and could leap 11 feet 9 inches. He was seen performing at a dog show by film producer Charles Jones, who paid Duncan to film Rinty. Rin Tin Tin would be cast as a wolf or wolf-hybrid many times in his career, despite looking little to nothing like one. His first starring role, 1923's Where The North Begins. |
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