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Robert Weatherwax Dies: Second-Generation ‘Lassie’ Trainer Was 83
After his father Rudd Weatherwax co-created 'Lassie' in 1954, Robert Weatherwax joined the family business in the early 60s.
The late trainer’s son Robert Jr., who has also continued in the family business, announced his father’s death on Friday with a throwback photo of the two of them and one of the rough collie descendants of the original Lassie dog actor Pal. “Due to my father’s genius, we transformed the training of dogs from simple props on a movie set into actors who seemed to behave with human-like emotions,” Robert previously said in his bio. “I hope that my father’s life-long labor of love, of which I am proud to have shared by his side, will be uplifting in a world that – more than ever – needs some inspiration from the past,” he added.
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