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Who is the best animal actor?
I maintain it's the magnificent horse called Silver on the Lone Ranger. He never flinches when LR fires off a round right next to his ear.
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Skippy (also known as Asta, 1931–1951) was a Wire Fox Terrier dog actor who appeared in dozens of movies during the 1930s. Skippy is best known for the role of the pet dog "Asta" in the 1934 detective comedy The Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, and for his role in the 1938 comedy Bringing Up Baby, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Due to the popularity of The Thin Man role, Skippy is sometimes credited as Asta in public and in other films.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Rex
The dog figures everything out in the first 5 minutes, then spends the next 20 minutes trying to convince the humans.
Available on Kanopy for free if you have a library card (https://www.kanopy.com )
Inspector Rex (German: Kommissar Rex; Italian: Il commissario Rex) is an Austrian-Italian police procedural television series created by Peter Hajek and Peter Moser. Originally an Austrian series aired from 1994 to 2004 on ORF 1, in 2008 it was revived under Austro-Italian production on Rai 1 and, from the next year, was made fully in Italy, with occasional episodes set in Austria. Rai 1 eventually cancelled the Austro-Italian production in June 2015, after eight Italian seasons.[1]
The series follows the German Shepherd police dog Rex, his partners and the rest of the team at the Vienna Kriminalpolizei homicide unit, as they work together to solve crimes. From 2008, episodes are set in Rome.
The dog figures everything out in the first 5 minutes, then spends the next 20 minutes trying to convince the humans.
Available on Kanopy for free if you have a library card (https://www.kanopy.com )
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And I loved him as A#1 in Emperor of the North 
He was always excellent, even in his smaller and early roles. I can't think of anything he wasn't good in.
that was it. I couldn't remember the horse's name and couldn't find its real name 
Trigger belonged to Roy Rogers.
Meredith Salenger and Jed
Jed was born at Whatcom Humane Society in Bellingham, Washington in 1977 where Gerhardt "Gary" Winkler, Henry Winkler's second cousin, adopted him as part of his collection of Siberian Huskies and Alaskan Malamutes.
Jed was an American animal actor, known for his roles in the movies The Thing (1982), The Journey of Natty Gann (1985), White Fang (1991), and White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994).
He was a Northwestern wolf-Alaskan Malamute hybrid. His mother was a captive Vancouver Coastal Sea wolf from British Columbia's Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. His father was an Alaskan Malamute originally from Juneau, Alaska's Gastineau Humane Society.
He died in June 1995. Rest in Paradise, Jed.
In the late forties Americans were anxious to embrace peacetime but Khrushchev’s bomb tests weren’t helping. Lighter than light entertainment was required and the story of Francis—World War II seen through the comforting lens of a fairy tale—fit the bill. The mule evolved into a legitimate franchise; Stern published Francis Goes to Washington in 1948 and his creation went on to dominate newsstands in both comic books and a newspaper strip. It was high time for Francis to go to the movies and that film, titled just Francis, went into production in the summer of 1949 and was released in February of 1950.
Francis was directed by steadfast company man Arthur Lubin who had an affinity for animals, both four-legged and human (he helmed 1951’s Rhubarb about a baseball-loving feline and directed a feral Gale Sondergaard in 1946’s The Spider Woman Strikes Back). Heading the cast was Donald O’Connor as Peter Stirling, a Second Lieutenant on patrol in Burma who finds himself lost behind enemy lines. A stray army mule rescues the chuckle-headed soldier who discovers the animal is blessed with more than just a heroic nature—he can talk (the mule’s dialog was spoken by the outsized Chill Wills—a good old boy known for braying his lines when he wasn’t barking them).
This army mule is named Francis and he’s no jackass—thanks to his free-roaming status as a barnyard animal, he has easy access to unsuspecting enemy forces and their battle plans—by using Francis’ skills as an undercover donkey, Peter gains a reputation as a genius-level military strategist. Stirling’s problem is that, unlike the stubborn donkey, he can’t keep his mouth shut. His straightforward explanations as to the source of his information—”A mule told me”—lead to more than one appointment with the staff psychiatrist. When the going gets rough for his human friend, Francis reveals his true nature and Peter is exonerated. The end.
Francis was directed by steadfast company man Arthur Lubin who had an affinity for animals, both four-legged and human (he helmed 1951’s Rhubarb about a baseball-loving feline and directed a feral Gale Sondergaard in 1946’s The Spider Woman Strikes Back). Heading the cast was Donald O’Connor as Peter Stirling, a Second Lieutenant on patrol in Burma who finds himself lost behind enemy lines. A stray army mule rescues the chuckle-headed soldier who discovers the animal is blessed with more than just a heroic nature—he can talk (the mule’s dialog was spoken by the outsized Chill Wills—a good old boy known for braying his lines when he wasn’t barking them).
This army mule is named Francis and he’s no jackass—thanks to his free-roaming status as a barnyard animal, he has easy access to unsuspecting enemy forces and their battle plans—by using Francis’ skills as an undercover donkey, Peter gains a reputation as a genius-level military strategist. Stirling’s problem is that, unlike the stubborn donkey, he can’t keep his mouth shut. His straightforward explanations as to the source of his information—”A mule told me”—lead to more than one appointment with the staff psychiatrist. When the going gets rough for his human friend, Francis reveals his true nature and Peter is exonerated. The end.
https://trailersfromhell.com/francis-the-talking-mule-7-film-collection/]
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