{{Short description|Animal stunt coordinator and trainer}} '''Boone Narr''' (born January 30, 1948) is an animal stunt coordinator<ref name="stuart_linda_sunshine">{{cite book | title = Stuart Little: The Art, the Artists, and the Story Behind the Amazing Movie | author = Linda Sunshine, Rob Minkoff | year = 2000 | publisher = Newmarket Press | pages = 148 | isbn = 978-1-55704-407-5 }}</ref> and trainer.<ref name="Sandra Choron, Harry Choron 2005 44">{{cite book | title = Planet Dog: A Doglopedia | author = Sandra Choron, Harry Choron | year = 2005 | publisher = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | edition = illustrated | pages = [https://archive.org/details/planetdog00sand/page/44 44] | isbn = 978-0-618-51752-7 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/planetdog00sand/page/44 }}</ref> He founded ''Boone's Animals for Hollywood'' animal training facility located in Castaic, California in 1998. It operated until 2023. Narr is a Vietnam veteran and got into the entertainment industry in 1971.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mills |first=Nancy |date=1997-12-18 |title=The Big Cheese 'Mouse Hunt's' Animal Trainer Helps Actions Squeak Louder Than Words |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/1997/12/18/the-big-cheese-mouse-hunts-animal-trainer-helps-actions-squeak-louder-than-words/ |access-date=2025-04-21 |work=New York Daily News}}</ref>
==Training==
Boone Narr, a native of Seattle, has been credited as an animal trainer, wrangler and supplier for a number of films and television programmes.
Animals trained at Boone's Animals for Hollywood have also been featured in many other television series, including ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', ''Ugly Betty'' and ''Criminal Minds''.
Boone's Animals for Hollywood has also trained and supplied animals for a number of television commercials, including such brands as Budweiser, Disneyland, Walmart, John Deere, McDonald's, Cisco Systems, FedEx, Hewlett-Packard and American Express, among others.{{Citation needed|date=August 2018}}
It was reported in the ''Los Angeles Times'' that on the set of Narr's first film ''Any Which Way You Can'', Clint Eastwood's sidekick orangutan "Clyde" (originally named "Buddha") was "trained with a can of mace and a pipe wrapped in newspaper."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-27-et-brief27-story.html|title='Every which way but abuse' should be motto|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> The article actually drew from a book by Dale Peterson and Jane Goodall, who claimed that information from three observers suggested that the orangutan was frequently beaten, and that, some time toward the completion of the film, Buddha was punished for having stolen doughnuts from the set. They state that he was beaten for 20 minutes with a three-and-a-half foot ax handle, and that, after his death some months later, an autopsy suggested evidence of a cerebral hemorrhage.<ref>{{cite book |last=Peterson |first=Dale |date=March 22, 1993 |title=Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People |url=https://archive.org/details/visionsofcaliban00dale_0|url-access=registration |location=USA |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |page=[https://archive.org/details/visionsofcaliban00dale_0/page/145 145] |isbn=978-0820322063 }}</ref> Makeup effects artist William Munns has cast doubt on these claims, saying that Narr was "truly one of the best and kindest trainers I knew."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.coolasscinema.com/2015/03/an-interview-with-makeup-effects-artist.html|title=An Interview with Makeup Effects Artist and Author, William Munns}}</ref>
=== Films ===
{{collapse top|Filmography List}} {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Title ! Year ! Notes |- | ''Any Which Way You Can'' | 1980 | |- | ''The Beastmaster'' | 1982 | |- | ''Three Amigos'' | 1986 | |- | ''Who's That Girl'' | 1987 | Cougars |- | ''The Accidental Tourist'' | 1988 | The Cardigan Welsh Corgi dog Edward, which is trained in the film by Geena Davis, was trained in real life by Boone Narr<ref name="Sandra Choron, Harry Choron 2005 44"/> |- | ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' | 1989 | Snakes and Lion (Indy's flashback segment). Jules Sylvester supplied and handled the garter snakes for this cinematic production.<ref>https://www.slideshare.net/RussCase/lemony-snicket-by-russ</ref> Hubert Wells of Thousand Oaks, California's '''Animal Actors of Hollywood''' and Sled Reynolds of Lebec, California's '''Gentle Jungle''' trained Dandy the Lion with Boone Narr for this scene. Wells generously supplied Dandy for this scene. This sequence was supervised by Michael Culling of London's '''Animal Actors UK'''.<ref>https://www.animalactors.co.uk/blog/films/indiana_jones.htm</ref> |- | ''Flatliners'' | 1990 | |- | ''Edward Scissorhands'' | 1990 | |- | ''White Fang'' | 1991 | Principal animal trainer |- | ''L.A. Story'' | 1991 | |- | ''Bingo'' | 1991 | |- | ''Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead'' | 1991 | dog trainer |- | ''Grand Canyon'' | 1991 | |- | ''Falling Down'' | 1993 | |- | ''Top Dog'' | 1995 | Trainer of the dog Reno |- | ''The Craft'' | 1996 | |- | ''The Rock'' | 1996 | |- | ''A Time to Kill'' | 1996 | Boon Narr adopted II (yellow Labrador retriever) from the Castaic Animal Shelter in 1993<ref name="aha_history_stars"/> |- | ''Buddy'' | 1997 | |- | ''Mouse Hunt'' | 1997 | |- | ''Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie'' | 1997 | |- | ''Paulie'' | 1998 | Twister (terrier mix) was adopted by Boone Narr from the Castaic Animal Shelter in 1995<ref name="aha_history_stars"/> |- | ''The Parent Trap'' | 1998 | Bob (golden retriever) and Nugget (terrier mix) were adopted by Boone Narr from the Lacy Street Animal Shelter in 1993 and 1994 respectively<ref name="aha_history_stars"/> |- | ''Mumford'' | 1999 | Boon Narr adopted II (yellow Labrador retriever) from the Castaic Animal Shelter in 1993<ref name="aha_history_stars"/> |- | ''The Green Mile'' | 1999 | Boone Narr and his team bred and trained the mice<ref>{{cite book | title = The directors: take four, Volume 4 | author = Robert J. Emery | year = 2003 | publisher = Allworth Communications | pages = 215 | isbn = 978-1-58115-279-1 }}</ref> |- | ''Girl, Interrupted'' | 1999 | |- | ''Stuart Little'' | 1999 | Boone Narr was the animal stunt coordinator<ref name="stuart_linda_sunshine"/> |- | ''The Kid'' | 2000 | |- | ''The Crew'' | 2000 | |- | ''The Cell'' | 2000 | David Allsberry was the head trainer |- | ''The Mexican'' | 2001 | |- | ''Cats & Dogs'' | 2001 | |- | ''America's Sweethearts'' | 2001 | doberman trainer |- | ''Rat Race'' | 2001 | |- | ''The Majestic'' | 2001 | |- | ''The Ring'' | 2002 | |- | ''Stuart Little 2'' | 2002 | |- | ''Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'' | 2003 | |- | ''Open Range'' | 2003 | |- | ''Looney Tunes: Back in Action'' | 2003 | |- | ''Peter Pan'' | 2003 | |- | ''Willard'' | 2003 | |- | ''Catwoman'' | 2004 | |- | ''Christmas with the Kranks'' | 2004 | |- | ''Must Love Dogs'' | 2005 | |- | ''Everything Is Illuminated'' | 2005 | |- | ''Elizabethtown'' | 2005 | |- | ''Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' | 2006 | |- | ''The Holiday'' | 2006 | |- | ''The Number 23'' | 2007 | |- | ''Firehouse Dog'' | 2007 | |- | ''Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'' | 2007 | |- | ''Underdog'' | 2007 | |- | ''Forgetting Sarah Marshall'' | 2008 | |- | ''Tropic Thunder'' | 2008 | |- | ''Hachiko: A Dog's Story'' | 2009 | |- | ''Shutter Island'' | 2010 | |- | ''Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore'' | 2010 | It took six months to cast the animals for the film; the Boone's Animals for Hollywood ended up with 80 different animals and 18 to 26 trainers at any time<ref>{{cite book | title = The Complete Film Production Handbook | author = Eve Light Honthaner | year = 2010 | publisher = Focal Press | pages = 269 | isbn = 978-0-240-81150-5 }}</ref> |- | ''You Again'' | 2010 | |- | ''Due Date'' | 2010 | |- | ''The Conjuring'' | 2013 | |- | ''The Dognapper'' | 2013 | |- | ''Daddy's Home'' | 2015 | |} {{cob}}
=== Television === * ''Mad About You'' (1992–99) * ''Walker, Texas Ranger'' (1993-2001) * ''When Animals Attack! 3/4'' (1997) * ''Grey's Anatomy'' (2005–2008) * ''Dollhouse'' (2009) * ''Sons of Anarchy'' (2008-2009) * ''Californication'' (2007-2009) * ''Private Practice'' (2008-2010) * ''House M.D.'' (2007-2010) * ''Sons of Tucson'' (2010) * ''True Blood'' (2008-2010) * ''Friends with Benefits'' (2011) * ''Enlightened'' (2011)
Maui, who played Murray the dog in ''Mad About You'', was discovered by Boone Narr at the Castaic Animal Shelter along with its mother Bingo, who starred in the 1991 film ''Bingo''.<ref name="aha_history_stars">{{cite web | url = http://www.americanhumane.org/protecting-animals/programs/no-animals-were-harmed/profiles/history-of-animal-stars.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090210162814/http://www.americanhumane.org/protecting-animals/programs/no-animals-were-harmed/profiles/history-of-animal-stars.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2009-02-10 | title = A History of Animal Stars | access-date = 2010-12-10 | publisher = American Humane Association }}</ref> Maui was twice voted the most popular dog by the readers of ''TV Guide''.<ref>''TV Guide'', Volume 46. Triangle Publications, 1998.</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.boonesanimals.com boonesanimals.com Boone's Animals for Hollywood] * {{IMDb name|0621513|Boone Narr}}
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