Pete the Pup
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Pete the Pup (September 9, 1929 – January 28, 1946), also called Lucenay's Peter, was an American dog actor known to portray "Pete, the dog with the ring around his eye" in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies series (later known as The Little Rascals) during the 1930s. He was well known for having a circled eye added by Hollywood make-up artist Max Factor.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
A brief parody of Pete appeared in the 1935 Bob Hope short Watch the Birdie, which was produced by Warner Bros.
In his last years Tommy "Butch" Bond made public appearances with a similar Pit Bull Terrier he claimed was a descendant of the original Pete the Pup.
Dog actors which portrayed the character PeteEdit
Pal The Wonder DogEdit
The first dog actor to play Pete was an UKC registered American Pit Bull Terrier named Pal The Wonder Dog (sired by Tudor's Black Jack x Keller Peggy O'Neill and bred by Earl Tudor) born in 1924, being a descendent to Colby's Pincher,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Pal, the Wonder Dog, and his Offspring Pete</ref> and it is claimed to had a natural mark around his right eye (maybe a human eyebrow form spot) and some dye was used to make the circle, credited as an oddity in Ripley's Believe It or Not.
Pal started out its career as "Tige" in the Buster Brown series in the 1920s. It was during this time that he acquired the circled eye mark, and when he was recruited to appear in the Our Gang comedies later that year, Hal Roach simply left it on, creating one of the most recognized dogs in film history.
When he was about six months old, Pal the Wonder Dog made an appearance in the Harold Lloyd film The Freshman, in 1925.<ref>Commentary by Leonard Maltin, Richard Correll, and Richard W. Bann, from The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection Giftset, Volume 2 – disc one</ref>
Pal was poisoned and died in 1930.<ref name="maltin">Maltin, Leonard and Bann, Richard W. (1977, rev. 1992). The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang, pp. 281–283. New York: Crown Publishing/Three Rivers Press. Template:ISBN</ref>
Lucenay's Peter (Pete the pup)Edit
After Pal's death its trainer and owner Lt. Harry Lucenay used one male dog of Pal's offspring to play Pete in the series. Pal's son named
Lucenay's Peter (sired by Pal the Wonder Dog x Keller Peggy O'Neill) was an UKC/AKC dual registered American Pit Bull Terrier/American Staffordshire Terrier, mostly known as Pete the Pup,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> bred by A. A. Keller and born in 1929. This second Pete took over following Pal's death and looked very similar to the first Pete, but was a mirror image. The circle around Pal's right eye was around the left eye of Peter. Lucenay's Peter first appeared as a puppy in Pups Is Pups and was nearly full-grown in his second appearance School's Out. The second Pete's last Our Gang appearance was The Pooch in 1932. The plot had a dog catcher attempt to catch Pete and euthanize him, but fail to do so. After Lucenay was let go from the Our Gang series in 1932, he retired Peter to Atlantic City, where he was photographed with children at the Steel Pier.
After Harry Lucenay, Roach used a number of unrelated dogs to portray Pete in Our Gang until 1938 beginning with Hook and Ladder (1932).<ref name="maltin" /> Lucenay's Peter continued on and died of old age on January 28, 1946, in Los Angeles, California, at age 16 years/4 months, two years after the Our Gang series ended. Pete is buried at Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park at Calabasas, Los Angeles County, California, United States.
Other dog actorsEdit
In the 1994 feature film remake of The Little Rascals, Pete is portrayed by an American Bulldog dog actor coincidentally named Petey.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In the 2014 movie The Little Rascals Save the Day, Pete is portrayed by Jules, a female mongrel dog actor who participated in a 2014 Shelter Pet Project tv commercial.Template:Fact
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