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Frank Thrall Weatherwax (June 23 1902 – December 17 1991) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 and animal trainer
Animal training

Animal training refers to teaching animals specific responses to specific conditionings or stimulus . Training may be for the purpose of companionship, detection, protection, entertainment or all of the above....
. He is best remembered with his brother Rudd Weatherwax
Rudd Weatherwax

Ruddell Bird "Rudd" Weatherwax was an American actor and animal training. He and his brother Frank Weatherwax are best remembered for training dogs for motion pictures and television....
 for their famous collie
Collie

A collie is a distinctive type of herding dog, ultimately originating in Great Britain, especially in the upland areas of the north and west....
, Pal, the dog who became famous as Lassie
Lassie

Lassie is a fictional character and a stage name for several dog actors. The fictional character was created by Eric Knight in a short story expanded to novel length called Lassie Come-Home ....
 in the 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Lassie Come Home
Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home is a 1943 in film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Roddy McDowall and Pal in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie....
.

Weatherwax was born in Camp Palomas, Sierra County, New Mexico Territory
New Mexico Territory

The Territory of New Mexico became an organized territory of the United States on September 9, 1850, and it existed until New Mexico became the 47th U.S....
, the son of Anna Elisa (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Wallis) and Walter Smiley Weatherwax. Weatherwax trained the original Asta
Asta

Skippy was a Fox Terrier dog actor who appeared in dozens of movies during the 1930s.Skippy starred in many movies. He 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....
 for The Thin Man
The Thin Man (film)

The Thin Man was the first of six comic detective films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a flirtatious married couple who banter wittily as they solve crimes with ease....
, a film produced in 1934.






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Frank Thrall Weatherwax (June 23 1902 – December 17 1991) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 and animal trainer
Animal training

Animal training refers to teaching animals specific responses to specific conditionings or stimulus . Training may be for the purpose of companionship, detection, protection, entertainment or all of the above....
. He is best remembered with his brother Rudd Weatherwax
Rudd Weatherwax

Ruddell Bird "Rudd" Weatherwax was an American actor and animal training. He and his brother Frank Weatherwax are best remembered for training dogs for motion pictures and television....
 for their famous collie
Collie

A collie is a distinctive type of herding dog, ultimately originating in Great Britain, especially in the upland areas of the north and west....
, Pal, the dog who became famous as Lassie
Lassie

Lassie is a fictional character and a stage name for several dog actors. The fictional character was created by Eric Knight in a short story expanded to novel length called Lassie Come-Home ....
 in the 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Lassie Come Home
Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home is a 1943 in film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Roddy McDowall and Pal in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie....
.

Weatherwax was born in Camp Palomas, Sierra County, New Mexico Territory
New Mexico Territory

The Territory of New Mexico became an organized territory of the United States on September 9, 1850, and it existed until New Mexico became the 47th U.S....
, the son of Anna Elisa (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Wallis) and Walter Smiley Weatherwax. Weatherwax trained the original Asta
Asta

Skippy was a Fox Terrier dog actor who appeared in dozens of movies during the 1930s.Skippy starred in many movies. He 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....
 for The Thin Man
The Thin Man (film)

The Thin Man was the first of six comic detective films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a flirtatious married couple who banter wittily as they solve crimes with ease....
, a film produced in 1934. This movie had five sequels and an accompanying television show. Weatherwax's Asta was not believed to star in any of these. He also trained Spike
Spike (dog actor)

Spike was a Blackmouth Cur and a dog actor best known for his performance as Old Yeller in the 1957 in film Old Yeller co-starring Tommy Kirk, Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, and Kevin Corcoran....
 who appeared in Disney's Old Yeller and in other film and television programs.

Frank Weatherwax played a bully in Little Lord Fauntleroy
Little Lord Fauntleroy

'Little Lord Fauntleroy' is the first children's novel written by England?United States playwright and author Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was originally published as a serial in the St....
 in 1921 with Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford was an Academy Award-winning Canada film actor, as well as a co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences....
. In 1920 he appeared in the silent film version of Heidi
Heidi

Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning , usually abbreviated Heidi, is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps....
 and in The Jucklins.

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