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He was born 100 years ago today.
He once said, "For years I've played the kind of man I'd like to have been."
A lot of movie information sites and books list "Lassie" in the cast of "Hondo."
I've read that the Collies in "Hondo" and then "Big Jake" were trained by the Weatherwax kennels and were Lassie siblings and children ... not Lassie, though.
There is a story, maybe apocryphal, that says Wayne won Lassie away from Rudd Weatherwax in a drunken after-shooting-hours poker game, then "gave the dog back" in the morning. Maybe he did.
He once said, "For years I've played the kind of man I'd like to have been."
A lot of movie information sites and books list "Lassie" in the cast of "Hondo."
I've read that the Collies in "Hondo" and then "Big Jake" were trained by the Weatherwax kennels and were Lassie siblings and children ... not Lassie, though.
There is a story, maybe apocryphal, that says Wayne won Lassie away from Rudd Weatherwax in a drunken after-shooting-hours poker game, then "gave the dog back" in the morning. Maybe he did.