List of animal actors
The following is a list of individual animals which have performed in film and television, sometimes called animal actors.
Bears
- Bart the Bear (Kodiak bear) as:
- "The Bald-headed Bear" in The Great Outdoors (1988)
- "The Kodiak Bear" in The Bear (1988)
- "Bear" in Legends of the Fall (1994)
- "Bear" in The Edge (1997)
- Bart the Bear 2 (aka "Little Bart") (brown bear) as:
- "Bear" in An Unfinished Life (2005)
- "Jerome the Grizzly Bear" in Zookeeper (2011)
- "Buster the Grizzly Bear" in We Bought a Zoo (2011)
- "Bear" in Game of Thrones Season 3, Episode 7, "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" (2013)
- Brody (Kodiak bear) as:
- "Grizzly" in Grizzly Park (2008)
- Hercules (grizzly bear) as:
- "Bear" in Octopussy (1983)
Chimpanzees
- J. Fred Muggs as:
- himself on The Today Show (1953–1975)
- Travis
Dogs
- Ace (German Shepherd)
- "Pal" in War Dogs (1942)
- "Ace" in God's Country (1946)
- Beatrice (French Bulldog) as:
- "Stella" on Modern Family (2012–present)
- Buddy (Golden Retriever) as:
- "Comet" on Full House (1987–1995)
- "Air Bud" in Air Bud (1997) and Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998)
- Brigitte (French Bulldog) as:
- "Stella" on Modern Family (2010–2012)
- Graubaer's Boker (Belgian Malinois) as:
- "Bear" on Person of Interest
- Brownie (Bull Terrier–Fox Terrier crossbreed) as:
- "Brownie" in Brownie's Little Venus (1921)
- Pal (Rough Collie) as:
- "Lassie" on Lassie
- Moose (Jack Russell Terrier) as:
- "Eddie" on Frasier (1993–2004)
- Rin Tin Tin (German Shepherd) as:
- "The Wolf-dog" in Where the North Begins (1923)
- "Rinty" in The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924)
- "Lobo" in The Clash of the Wolves (1925)
- "Rinty" in While London Sleeps (1926)
- "Satan" in Tracked by the Police (1927)
- "Scotty" in Tiger Rose (1929)
- "Rinty" in The Lone Defender (1930)
- "Rinty" in On the Border (1930)
- "Rinty" in The Man Hunter (1930)
- "Rinty the Lightning Warrior" in The Lightning Warrior (1931)
- Shep (Thanhouser Collie)
- Various Thanhouser Company short black & white films such as A Dog's Love (1914)
- Soccer (Jack Russell Terrier) as:
- "Wishbone" on Wishbone (1995-1998)
- Spike (Mastador - Labrador Retriever/ Mastiff) as:
- "King" in The She-Creature (1956)
- "Old Yeller" in Old Yeller (1957)
- "Patrasche" in A Dog of Flanders (1959)
- "Brown" on The Westerner (September 30 to December 30, 1960)
- "Pete" in The Silent Call (1961)
Horses
- Bamboo Harvester (Palomino) as:
- "Mister Ed" in Mister Ed
- Trigger (Palomino)
War Horse (2011)
Other
- Crystal (capuchin monkey) as:
- "Dexter" in Night at the Museum (2006) and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
- "Drug-dealing Monkey" in The Hangover Part II (2011)
- "Donald the Monkey" in Zookeeper (2011)
- "Dr. Rizzo" on Animal Practice (2012)
- Grumpy Cat a dwarf cat and YouTube personality
- Orangey (tabby cat) as:
- "Rhubarb" in Rhubarb (1951)
- "Minerva" on Our Miss Brooks (1952–1958)
- "Neutron" in This Island Earth (1955)
- "Butch" in The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
- "Cat" in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961)
- "Cleopatra" in "The Comedy of Terrors" (1964)
- the giant cat in "Village of the Giants" (1965)
- Winter as herself in Dolphin Tale (2011) and Dolphin Tale 2 (2014)
- Hope as herself in Dolphin Tale 2 (2014)
- Oscar the Parrot as Alex's brother, Stan's pet parrot in Home Alone 3 (1997). He also played as a parrot in the television show Fantasy Island (1977 - 1984) and as the parrot in the indie romantic-comedy film A Bird of the Air (2011).[1]
- Milton Fox, a penguin actor who appeared in 1964's Quick, Before it Melts.