# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudd-weatherwax
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:20:42.244Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudd-weatherwax"
name: "Rudd Weatherwax"
slug: "rudd-weatherwax"
description: "Ruddell Bird \"Rudd\" Weatherwax was an American actor, animal trainer, and breeder. He and his brother Frank are best remembered for training dogs for motion pictures and television. Their collie, Pal, became the original Lassie, handled by Rudd for the 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Lassie Come Home. He also handled the dogs for the Lassie television series which ran from 1954 to 1974, and trained Spike for the 1957 feature film Old Yeller. After his death, his son, Robert, took over the training of the animals."
tagline: "Actor, animal trainer (1907-1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rudd_Weatherwax_and_Lassie_1955.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1907-09-23"
deathDate: "1985-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.68
  momentum:             7.203947368421051
  historical:           6.462496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915803/"
    handle:    "nm0915803"
sources:
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    title: "رڈ ویدر ویکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rudd Weatherwax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رود وياثيرواكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رود وترواکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudd_Weatherwax"
    title: "Rudd Weatherwax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "رود وترواکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudd_Weatherwax"
    title: "Rudd Weatherwax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7376834"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2011697"
    title: "Rudd Weatherwax"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump