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Rin Tin Tin or Rin-Tin-Tin (September 10, 1918 – August 10, 1932) was a male German Shepherd born in Flirey, France, who became an international star in motion pictures. He was rescued from a World War I battlefield by an American soldier, Lee Duncan, who nicknamed him "Rinty". Duncan trained Rin Tin Tin and obtained silent film work
Warner Brothers decided to invest $100,000 in producing the screenplay as written by Rin Tin Tin's owner and trainer, Lee Duncan. Director Chester M. Franklin shot the film's exterior scenes in Canada but he stayed too long and shot too much footage, spending more than the budget. The negatives were processed in Hollywood and the Warner ...
Smuggling back the dogs aboard a ship taking him back to the US at the end of the war, eventually Rin Tin Tin was discovered by Hollywood filmmakers by his ability to leap great heights at a dog show. When he died in 1932, Lee Duncan took Rin Tin Tin's body back to France, where he had him buried in a Paris cemetery, the country of his birth. [10]
The film tells the story of the original Rin Tin Tin, the legendary German Shepherd, rescued as a shell-shocked puppy from the World War I battlefield in Lorraine, France, by an American serviceman, Lee Duncan. The puppy was taken to America and became the hero of several films made in the 1920s and 1930s. [3]
Lee Aaker, best known for starring as Corporal Rusty of “B-Company” on the 1950s western series “The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin,” died on April 1. He was 77. Paul Petersen, another former ...
Lee Duncan, an American film actor Lee Duncan (animal trainer), the owner and trainer of Rin Tin Tin Lee Duncan, a pen name of Lawrence Block , an American crime writer
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's Western television series that aired 164 episodes from October 1954 to May 1959 on the ABC television network.. The show starred Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache.
Lee Duncan: rough draft of an autobiography by the trainer of Rin Tin Tin; John Howard Griffin: Scattered Shadows, a memoir about the author's blindness; Napoleon Hill: Outwitting The Devil (1970) V. T. Hamlin: The Man Who Walked with Dinosaurs (autobiography) and Four Rivers (fishing memoir)