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Dogs share the spotlight with great actors in several films that have become cult. Quoting them may be easy, but identifying their breed is more difficult. Test your knowledge.
Man’s best friend, the dog, is widely represented in popular culture. There are countless comic or cartoon characters: Snowy, Dogmatix, Snoopy, Rantanplan, Goofy, Pollux, Cubitus, Pluto, Droopy, Scooby-Doo, Pif, Gromit, Rouky, Pongo and Perdita. The list is also long in TV series. Rintintin, Rex or Columbo’s dog are perfect examples. Finally, they serve as mascots: this is the case of the basset hound TV Z and Pico, a chocapic grain dog.
Dogs are movie actors
But that is not all. Dogs have always occupied a special place in cinema. The oldest will quote the collie from the movie Girl (1943, 2005), Swiss White Shepherd from Trained to killSaint Bernard of Cujo (1983) or the Dogue de Bordeaux from Turner and Hooch (1989).
We’ve been thinking about movies lately Go (2019), Cruella (2021) a Anatomy of a fall (2023). Small dog Artist (2011), Uggie, who died in 2015, even received the “Palm of the Dog” at the Cannes Film Festival. Yes, because since 2001 the honor award has been given “the best dog performance on the big screen“. Border collie Messi received this award in 2023 for his role in Anatomy of a fall.
We can therefore have fun with a list of famous dogs from the cinema, often used for the main role. Didier, Hatch, Beethoven… But it is less easy to name the breed to which this dog belongs, unless you are a dog or cinema specialist. That’s why we recommend you test your knowledge in a short quiz. On you !