Boone Narr

Boone Narr (born January 30, 1948) is an animal stunt coordinator and trainer. 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.

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.

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." 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. 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."

Films

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 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. 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 Girl, Interrupted 1999 Stuart Little 1999 Boone Narr was the animal stunt coordinator You Again 2010 Due Date 2010 The Conjuring 2013 The Dognapper 2013 Daddy's Home 2015

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. Maui was twice voted the most popular dog by the readers of TV Guide.