The PATSY Award was originated by the Hollywood office of the

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film '' Jesse James''. The letters are an acronym, and stand for Picture Animal Top Star of the Year. A later acronym was also included: Performing Animal Television Star of the Year. The very first recipient of a PATSY was

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in 1951, in a ceremony hosted by

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at Hollywood's

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. The award later covered both film and television and was separated into four categories: canine, equine, wild and special. The special category encompassed everything from goats to cats to pigs –

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of TV's '' Green Acres'' was a two-time winner. Arnold's trainer,

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, was the proud owner of over 40 PATSY awards, thanks to his work with

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, the cat from '' Rhubarb'' (1951) and '' Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1961); Higgins, the dog (who played the lead in the ''

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'' movies and "Dog" on ''

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''); Cleo the Basset Hound; and Lassie, and Tramp the dog from ''

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'' to name a few. Lassie was retired to the PATSY Hall of Fame after receiving many awards over the years. The Craven Award was named in honor of Richard C. Craven, the first director of the Hollywood AHA. It recognized animals that would normally have had no opportunity to appear in a starring role. The TV and Movie Animal Walk of Fame was established in front of the Burbank Animal Shelter, honoring certain early recipients of the PATSY Awards. By the 1970s, the awards were being presented in a televised ceremony, with animal recipients selected by the general public who voted in ballots which appeared in Associated Press newspapers. The first network presentation was on CBS in 1973. Over the years the PATSY Award ceremony was hosted by various celebrities, including

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, and Bob Barker. Barker has stated he eventually resigned in protest of the cruel methods some trainers use when training animals for films.The Price is Right: About the Show: Bob Barker
. Accessed 16 November 2007. The awards ended in 1986 due to lack of funding. That year the

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PATSY Award Winners (partial listing)

Source, 1951–1973: Additional , December 15, 2015.

1951

Motion Pictures #

(''

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'') # California the horse (''The Palamino'') # Pierre the chimp (''

My Friend Irma Goes West ''My Friend Irma Goes West'' is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and based on the radio show ''My Friend Irma.'' It stars the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. The film is a sequel to ''My Friend Irma'' (1949) and was ...

'') Award of Excellence * Flame the dog (''My Pal'') * Lassie the dog (''

Challenge to Lassie ''Challenge to Lassie'' is an American drama directed by Richard Thorpe in Technicolor and released October 31, 1949, by MGM Studios. It was the fifth feature film starring the original Lassie, a collie named Pal, and the fourth and final ''La ...

'') * Black Diamond the horse (''Black Midnight'') * Jackie the Lion ( ''Samson and Delilah'') Craven Award * Jerry Brown the horse – trained by Ace Hudkins

1952

Motion Pictures # Rhubarb the cat ('' Rhubarb'') # Francis the mule (''

Francis Goes to the Races ''Francis Goes to the Races'' is a 1951 American black-and-white comedy film from Universal-International, produced by Leonard Goldstein, directed by Arthur Lubin, that stars Donald O'Connor, Piper Laurie, and Cecil Kellaway. The distinctive voic ...

'') Award of Excellence * Chinook the dog (''Yukon Manhunt'') * Diamond the horse (''

Flame of Araby ''Flame of Araby'' (a.k.a. ''Flame of the Desert'') is a 1951 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Charles Lamont starring Maureen O'Hara and Jeff Chandler. British film star Maxwell Reed made his American film debut in the picture. ...

'') * Corky the dog ('' Behave Yourself'') Craven Award * Smoky the horse – owned/trained by Fat Jones

1953

Motion Pictures # Jackie the lion (''Fearless Fagen'') # Bonzo the Chimp (''

Bonzo Goes to College ''Bonzo Goes to College'' is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Frederick De Cordova and starring Maureen O'Sullivan, Edmund Gwenn, Charles Drake, Gigi Perreau, Gene Lockhart, and Bonzo. Plot Former lab chimpanzee Bonzo, suddenly literat ...

'') # Trigger the horse (''

Son of Paleface ''Son of Paleface'' is a 1952 American Comedy Western film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Bob Hope, Jane Russell, and Roy Rogers. The film is a sequel to '' The Paleface'' (1948). Written by Tashlin, Joseph Quillan, and Robert L. Welch ...

'') Award of Excellence * Francis the mule (''

Francis Goes to West Point ''Francis Goes to West Point'' is a 1952 American black-and-white comedy film from Universal-International, produced by Leonard Goldstein, directed by Arthur Lubin, and starring Donald O'Connor, Lori Nelson, Alice Kelley, and Gregg Palmer. The dis ...

'') * Tramp Jr. the dog ( ''Room for One More'') *

Cheeta Cheeta (sometimes billed as Cheetah, Cheta, and Chita) is a chimpanzee character that appeared in numerous Hollywood Tarzan films of the 1930s–1960s, as well as the 1966–1968 television series, as the ape sidekick of the title character, Tarza ...

the chimp (''

Tarzan's Savage Fury ''Tarzan's Savage Fury'' is a 1952 film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Lex Barker as Tarzan, Dorothy Hart as Jane, and Patric Knowles. While most Tarzan films of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s presented Tarzan as a very different character from ...

'') * Chinook the dog (''Yukon Gold'') Craven Award * Bracket the horse – owned by Hudkins Stables

1954

Motion Pictures # Sam the dog (''

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'') # Francis the mule (''

Francis Covers the Big Town ''Francis Covers the Big Town'' is a 1953 American black-and-white comedy film from Universal-International, produced by Leonard Goldstein, directed by Arthur Lubin, that stars Donald O'Connor, Yvette Duguay, and Gene Lockhart. The distinctive vo ...

'') # Jackie the lion ( ''Androcles and the Lion'') Award of Excellence * Baron the dog ('' Back to God's Country'') * Peggy the chimp (''Valley of the Headhunters'') * Jackie the lion (''White Witch Doctor'') Craven Award * Cocaine the horse – owned/trained by Chuck Roberson

1955

Motion Pictures # Beauty the horse (''Gypsy Colt'') # Francis the mule (''

Francis Joins the WACS ''Francis Joins the WACS'' is a 1954 American black-and-white comedy film from Universal-International, produced by Ted Richmond, directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Donald O'Connor, Julie Adams, ZaSu Pitts, Mamie Van Doren and Chill Wills in t ...

'') # Esmerelda the seal (''

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' (french: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-J ...

'') Award of Excellence * Shep the dog (''A Bullet is Waiting'') * Satin the tiger (''

Demetrius and the Gladiators ''Demetrius and the Gladiators'' is a 1954 American biblical drama film and a sequel to '' The Robe''. The picture was made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Delmer Daves and produced by Frank Ross. The screenplay was written by Philip Dunne ...

'') * Beauty the horse (''Outlaw Stallion'') Craven Award * Flash the horse – owned/trained by Henry Willis

1956

Motion Pictures # Wildfire the dog ('' It's a Dog's Life'') # Francis the mule (''

Francis in the Navy ''Francis in the Navy'' is a 1955 American black-and-white comedy film from Universal-International, produced by Stanley Rubin and directed by Arthur Lubin. The film stars Donald O'Connor and Martha Hyer, and marked the first credited film role ...

'') # Faro the dog ('' The Kentuckian'') Award of Excellence *N/A Craven Award * Flame the dog – owned/trained by Frank Barnes

1957

Motion Pictures # Samantha the goose ('' Friendly Persuasion'') # Beauty the Horse ( ''Giant'') # Francis the mule (''

Francis in the Haunted House ''Francis in the Haunted House'' is a 1956 American comedy film from Universal-International, produced by Robert Arthur, directed by Charles Lamont, that stars Mickey Rooney and Virginia Welles. This is the seventh and final film in Universal-I ...

'') Award of Excellence * Silver the horse (''

The Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend Tonto. The character has been called an enduring icon of American culture. He first appeared in 1933 in ...

'') * Lady the dog (''

Goodbye, My Lady ''Good-bye, My Lady'' is a novel by James H. Street about a boy and his dog. It was published by J. B. Lippincott & Co., J. B. Lippincott Company in June 1954 and reprinted in paperback by Pocket Books in February 1978. It is based on Street's s ...

'') * Bascom the dog ('' Hollywood or Bust'') Craven Award *King Cotton the horse – owned/trained by Ralph McCutcheon

1958

(Starting in 1958 PATSY awards were also awarded to television animals) Motion Pictures #

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the dog (''

Old Yeller ''Old Yeller'' is a 1956 children's literature, children's novel written by Fred Gipson and illustrated by Carl Burger. It received a Newbery Medal, Newbery Honor in 1957. The title is taken from the name of the yellow dog who is the center of t ...

'') # Beauty the horse (''

Wild Is the Wind ''Wild is the Wind'' is a 1957 film directed by George Cukor and starring Anna Magnani, Anthony Quinn, and Anthony Franciosa. It tells the story of an American rancher who, after his wife dies, goes to Italy to marry her sister, but finds that s ...

'') # Kelly the dog (''Kelly and Me'') Television # Lassie the dog ('' Lassie'') # Cleo the dog ('' The People's Choice'') #

Rin Tin Tin Rin Tin Tin or Rin-Tin-Tin (September 1918 – August 10, 1932) was a male German Shepherd born in Flirey, France, who became an international star in motion pictures. He was rescued from a World War I battlefield by an American soldier, L ...

the dog (''

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin ''The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin'' is an American children's television series in the Western genre that aired from October 1954 to May 1959 on the ABC television network. In all, 164 episodes aired. The show starred Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy o ...

'') Award of Excellence *

Tony the horse The phrase Wonder Horses refers to the equine companions of cowboy heroes in early Western films. What makes these horses different from others that have appeared on the silver screen is their rise from trusty steed to a genuine screen personality ...

('' Hoofs and Goofs'' / Movies) * Flicka the horse ( ''My Friend Flicka'' / TV) Craven Award * Trigger the horse – owned by

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/ trained by Glenn Randall

1959

Motion Pictures # Pyewacket the cat (''

Bell, Book and Candle ''Bell, Book and Candle'' is a 1958 American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Richard Quine from a screenplay by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1950 Broadway play of the same title by John Van Druten. It stars Kim Novak as a witch who c ...

'') # Tonka the horse ( ''Tonka'') # Henry the rabbit (''

The Geisha Boy ''The Geisha Boy'' is a 1958 American comedy film starring Jerry Lewis, distributed by Paramount Pictures. Filmed from June 16 to August 7, 1958, it had its first screening in New York City on December 19, 1958. This motion picture featured th ...

'') Television # Lassie the dog ('' Lassie'') # Asta the dog (''

The Thin Man ''The Thin Man'' (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in a condensed version in the December 1933 issue of ''Redbook''. It appeared in book form the following month. A film series followed, featuring the main cha ...

'') # Rin Tin Tin the dog (''

'') Award of Excellence * King the dog (''

The Proud Rebel ''The Proud Rebel'' is a 1958 American Technicolor Western film directed by Michael Curtiz, with a screenplay by Joseph Petracca and Lillie Hayward that was based on a story by James Edward Grant. It is the story of a widowed Confederate vetera ...

'' / Movies) * Jasper the dog ('' Bachelor Father'' / TV) Craven Award * Baldy the horse – owned by Fat Jones Stables / trained by William "Buster" Trow

1960

Motion Pictures # Shaggy the dog ('' The Shaggy Dog'') # Herman the pigeon (''

The Gazebo ''The Gazebo'' is a 1959 American black comedy CinemaScope film about a married couple who are being blackmailed. It was based on the 1958 play of the same name by Alec Coppel and directed by George Marshall. Helen Rose was nominated for the A ...

'') # North Wind the horse (''The Sad Horse'') Television # Asta the dog ( ''The Thin Man'') # Lassie the dog ( ''Lassie'') # Fury the horse ('' Fury''); Jasper the dog ('' Bachelor Father'') - tied Craven Award * Sharkey, Dempsey, Choctaw, and Joker the horses

1961

Motion Pictures # King Cotton the horse (''

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'') # Spike the dog ('' A Dog of Flanders'') # Stubbs the monkey (''

Toby Tyler ''Toby Tyler or 10 Weeks with a Circus'', also known simply as ''Toby Tyler'', is a 1960 American drama film directed by Charles Barton and starring Kevin Corcoran, Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon, and Richard Eastham. It was produced by Walt Disney ...

''); Skip the dog (''

Visit to a Small Planet ''Visit to a Small Planet'' is a 1960 American black-and-white science fiction comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Earl Holliman, and Fred Clark. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, it was produced by ...

'') - tied Television # Tramp the dog (''

'') # Lassie the dog ('' Lassie'') # Fury the horse ('' Fury'')

1962

Motion Pictures #

the cat ('' Breakfast at Tiffany's'') # Pete the dog (''The Silent Call'') # Flame the horse (''The Clown and the Kid'') Television #

Mister Ed ''Mister Ed'' is an American television sitcom produced by Filmways that aired in syndication from January 5 to July 2, 1961, and then on CBS from October 1, 1961, to February 6, 1966. The show's title character is a talking horse which orig ...

the horse (''

'') # Lassie the dog ( ''Lassie'') # Tramp the dog (''

'')

1963

Motion Pictures # Big Red the dog ('' Big Red'') # Sydney the elephant (''

Billy Rose's Jumbo ''Billy Rose's Jumbo'' is a 1962 American musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, and Martha Raye. An adaptation of the stage musical ''Jumbo'' produced by Billy Rose, the film was dir ...

'') # Zamba the lion (''The Lion'') Television # Mister Ed the horse (''

'') # Lassie the dog ( ''Lassie'') # Tramp the dog (''

'') Craven Award * Mickey O'Boyle the horse

1964

Motion Pictures # Tom Dooley the dog ('' Savage Sam'') # Pluto the dog (''

My Six Loves ''My Six Loves'' is a 1963 comedy film in Technicolor starring Debbie Reynolds as a Broadway star who takes a vacation and finds herself responsible for six abandoned children, in Gower Champion's directorial debut. It is based on the novel of th ...

'') # Raunchy the jaguar ('' Rampage'') Television # Lassie the dog ( ''Lassie'') # Mister Ed the horse (''

'') # Tramp the dog (''

'')

1965

Motion Pictures # Patrina the tiger ('' A Tiger Walks'') # Storm the dog (''

Goodbye Charlie ''Goodbye Charlie'' is a 1964 American comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds and Pat Boone. The film is about a callous womanizer who gets his just reward. It was adapted from George Axelrod's 1959 p ...

'') # Junior the dog (''

Island of the Blue Dolphins ''Island of the Blue Dolphins'' is a 1960 children's novel by American writer Scott O'Dell, which tells the story of a 23 year-old girl named Karana, who is stranded alone for years on an island off the California coast. It is based on the true ...

'') Television #Flipper the dolphin ('' Flipper'') # Lassie the dog ('' Lassie'') # Mister Ed the horse (''

'') Craven Award * Lucky Buck the horse

1966

Motion Pictures # Syn Cat the cat (''

That Darn Cat! ''That Darn Cat!'' is a 1965 American thriller comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Hayley Mills and Dean Jones in a story about bank robbers, a kidnapping and a mischievous cat; produced by Walt Disney Productions. The fi ...

'') # Clarence the lion (''

Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion ''Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion'' is a 1965 light comedy-adventure film, produced by Ivan Tors, Leonard B. Kaufman, and Harry Redmond Jr., directed by Andrew Marton, and starring Marshall Thompson and Betsy Drake. The film was shot at Soledad ...

'') # Judy the chimp (''

'') Television # Flipper the dolphin ('' Flipper'') # Lord Nelson the dog (''

Please Don't Eat the Daisies ''Please Don't Eat the Daisies'' (New York: Doubleday, 1957) is a best-selling collection of humorous essays by American humorist and playwright Jean Kerr about suburban living and raising four boys. The essays do not have a plot or through-sto ...

'') # Higgins the dog (''

'') Craven Award * Smokey the horse

1967

Motion Pictures # Elsa the lion (''

Born Free ''Born Free'' is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood, and released her in ...

'') # Duke the dog # Vindicator the steer (''

The Rare Breed ''The Rare Breed'' is a 1966 American Western film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith in Panavision. Loosely based on the life of rancher Col. John William Burgess, the film follows Ma ...

'') Television # Judy the chimp (''

Daktari ''Daktari'' ( Swahili for "doctor") is an American family drama series that aired on CBS between 1966 and 1969. The series is an Ivan Tors Films Production in association with MGM Television starring Marshall Thompson as Dr. Marsh Tracy, a vete ...

'') # Flipper the dolphin ('' Flipper'') # Arnold the pig ('' Green Acres'')

1968

Motion Pictures # Ben the bear (''

Gentle Giant Gentle Giant were a British progressive rock band active between 1970 and 1980. The band were known for the complexity and sophistication of their music and for the varied musical skills of their members. All of the band members were multi-inst ...

'') # Sir Tim the mountain lion # Sophie the sea lion (''

Dr. Dolittle Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 ''The Story of Doctor Dolittle''. He is a physician who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in the ...

'') Television # Arnold the pig ('' Green Acres'') # Ben the bear (''

Gentle Ben Gentle Ben is a bear character created by author Walt Morey and first introduced in a 1965 children's novel, ''Gentle Ben''. The original novel told the story of the friendship between a large male bear named Ben and a boy named Mark. The story pr ...

'') # Clarence the lion (''

'')

1969

Motion Pictures # Albarado the horse (''

The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit ''The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit'' is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Norman Tokar, with a screenplay by Louis Pelletier and starring Dean Jones, Diane Baker, Ellen Janov, Kurt Russell and Lurene Tuttle, as well as Fred Clark in ...

'') Television # Arnold the pig ('' Green Acres'', continuing role) # Timmy the chimp (single appearance) # Chauncey the cougar (commercial)

1970

Motion Pictures # Rascal the raccoon ('' Rascal'') Television # Scruffy the dog ('' The Ghost & Mrs. Muir'', continuing role) # Algae the seal (single appearance) Craven Award * Kilroy the horse

1971

Motion Pictures # Ben the rat ('' Willard'') Television # Arnold the pig ('' Green Acres'', continuing role) # Margie the elephant, Lassie's family three pups (tie) # Pax the dog (Longstreet) # Otto the horse (''Lassie'', single appearance)

1972

Motion Pictures # Ben the rat (''

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'') Television # Farouk the dog ('' Ironside'', single appearance) #

Morris the Cat Morris the Cat is the advertising mascot for 9Lives (cat food), 9Lives brand cat food, appearing on its packaging and in many of its television commercials since the 1970s. Description A large orange tabby cat, tabby cat#Nomenclature and etymo ...

(special award, commercials) Craven Award * Cocaine the horse

1973

Motion Pictures) * Alpha the Dolphin (''

The Day of the Dolphin ''The Day of the Dolphin'' is a 1973 American science fiction thriller film directed by Mike Nichols and starring George C. Scott. Based on the 1967 novel '' Un animal doué de raison'' (lit. ''A Sentient Animal''), by French writer Robert Merl ...

'') Television * Midnight the Cat (" Mannix and Barnaby Jones (TV series) (CBS Mystery Theater), Opening Trailer)") Television Movie * Caesar the Dog ('' Trapped'') Television Commercials (new category) *Scruffy the Dog ( Chuck Wagon (dog food) commercials) Sharon (Lewis) Evans AHA PATSY Award winner 1st Place with "Midnight" the Cat for best animal performance in a TV Series. American Humane Association "The National Review", June 1974 issue.

1974

Motion Pictures * Tonto (''

Harry and Tonto ''Harry and Tonto'' is a 1974 road movie written by Paul Mazursky and Josh Greenfeld and directed by Mazursky. It features Art Carney as Harry in an Oscar-winning performance. Tonto is his pet cat. Plot Harry Coombes (Art Carney) is an elderly ...

'')

1976

Motion Pictures * Rosco the Mule (''

The Apple Dumpling Gang ''The Apple Dumpling Gang'' is a 1971 novel by Jack Bickham, about a group of orphaned children during the California gold rush. They encounter a gambler who reluctantly helps them, as well as a pair of hapless robbers who are after the gold ...

'')

Trophy listing

The February 1, 1999, episodes of ''

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'' features the 1967 American Humane Association Trophy for Outstanding Achievement in Motion Pictures, appraised by Leila Dunbar. On the trophy's base is a series of plaques listing the top winner in this category, matched with the year of the animal's movie work rather than the year the award was bestowed. The plaques list:

References

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