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The Shaggy Dog (1959) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Shaggy Dog is a 1959 American fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and loosely based on the 1923 novel The Hound of Florence by Felix Salten.Directed by Charles Barton from a screenplay by Lillie Hayward and Bill Walsh, the film stars Fred MacMurray, Tommy Kirk, Jean Hagen, Kevin Corcoran, Tim Considine, Roberta Shore, and Annette Funicello.
The Shaggy Dog: Directed by Charles Barton. With Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello. A teenage boy is cursed with periodically turning into a sheepdog.
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- Comedy, Family, Fantasy
- Charles Barton
- 1959-03-19
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- Cast
- Novelization
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Wilby Daniels is constantly misunderstood by his father, Wilson. Wilson thinks Wilby is crazy half the time because of his elder son's often dangerous inventions. As a retired mailman who often ran afoul of canines, he has a hatred of dogs, and he can't understand why his younger son, Moochiewants a dog so badly. Wilby and his self-centered rival, ...
In the late 1950s, the idea of an adult human turning into a beast was nothing new, but the idea of a teenager doing just that in a movie was considered avant-garde and even shocking in 1957 when AIP released their horror film, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, one of the studio's biggest hits. The Shaggy Dog betrays its successful forebear with Fred MacMu...
Jean Hagen as Frida DanielsTommy Kirk as Wilby DanielsWhile the movie itself is based on Salten's The Hound of Florence, a novelization of the movie published by Scholastic eight years later in 1967made some interesting changes to the plot. First, Funicello's character Allison was removed entirely, and her name is not listed among the movie's principal performers. As a result, the rivalry between Wilb...
The Shaggy Dog had been at that point the most profitable film produced by Walt Disney Productions and heavily influenced the studio's live-action film production for the next two decades. Using a formula of placing supernatural and/or fantastical forces within everyday mid-twentieth century American life, the studio was able to create a long serie...
The Shaggy Dog movie cast and actor biographies. Check out the latest photos and bios of the cast and filmmakers of The Shaggy Dog. Starring Tim Allen,...
Frederick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor and singer who appeared in more than 100 films and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s. more »
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The Shaggy Dog is a 1959 Walt Disney film about Wilby Daniels, a teenage boy who by the power of an enchanted ring of the Borgias is transformed into the title character, a shaggy Old English ...
