Rin Tin TinFilmography

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin: Season 04

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Lee Aaker, James Brown, Joe Sawyer, Rand Brooks

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin: Season 03

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Lee Aaker, James Brown, Joe Sawyer, Rand Brooks

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin: Season 02

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Lee Aaker, James Brown, Joe Sawyer, Rand Brooks

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin: Season 01

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Lee Aaker, James Brown, Joe Sawyer, Rand Brooks

The Lone Defender

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Walter Miller, June Marlowe, Buzz Barton, Josef Swickard

Synopsis: Having basically bankrolled the struggling Warner Bros., the era's most popular canine, Rin Tin Tin, signed a 5,000-dollars-a-picture contract with Poverty Row operator Nat Levine. The result, a 15-chapter serial (Levine demanded hard labor for his shekels), featured Rinty opposite veteran genre Read More

Lightning Warrior [Serial]

Actors: George Brent, Frankie Darro, Pat O'Malley, Hayden Stevenson, Yakima Canutt, Rin Tin Tin, Georgia Hale

Synopsis: This western serial features the famous trained German Shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Rinty gets involved in an Indian uprising caused by a mysterious criminal known as the "Wolf Man" and a father and son who are under attack by outlaws trying to steal their gold mine. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Rough Waters

Actors: Lane Chandler, Jobyna Ralston, Edmund Breese

Synopsis: Canine star Rin-Tin-Tin's glory days as one of Warner Bros.' biggest moneymaking personalities were swiftly coming to an end when he was top-billed in Rough Waters. This time, Rinty is owned by crusty old seafarer Captain Thomas (Edmund Breese) and his pretty young daughter Mary (Jobyna Ralston). Read More

The Man Hunter

Actors: John Loder, Nora Lane, Charles Delaney, Pat Hartigan

Synopsis: So many silent favorites had fallen by the wayside with the comic of talkies that one shouldn't be surprised that canine star Rin-Tin-Tin had to content himself with fourth billing in The Man Hunter. The plot is typical of Rinty's silent vehicles, with the doggie hero tracking down villains Read More

Tiger Rose

Actors: Monte Blue, Lupe Velez, H.B. Warner, Tully Marshall

Synopsis: In this romantic adventure, a feisty young woman (Velez) toys with the affections of a railroad worker (Withers) and a Mountie (Blue). She ends up with Withers and decides to accompany him to the city. Unfortunately, the other workers around her do not want her to go. As the lovers try to flee Read More

On the Border

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Armida, Philo McCullough, Bruce Covington

Synopsis: Having already made a successful transition to talkies, canine star Rin-Tin-Tin remained on the Warner Bros. payroll throughout 1930. In On the Border, Rinty plays a police dog living at a lavish California hacienda near the Mexican border. The villainous Farrell (Philo McCullough) decides to use Read More

Show of Shows

Synopsis: Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all singing and all dancing" sweepstakes of 1929. Though slightly better than MGM's Hollywood Revue of 1929, the Warners entry pales in comparison to Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 Read More

The Million Dollar Collar

Actors: Tom Dugan, Matty Kemp

Synopsis: That intrepid German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin is his usual ruff-n-ready self in this adventure that has him trying to deal with jewel thieves who have hidden a priceless diamond necklace in his collar. They lose the dog, after a terrible car crash. Fortunately, Rin is saved by fellow who takes him Read More

Frozen River

Actors: Davey Lee, Josef Swickard, Raymond McKee

Synopsis: Canine star Rin Tin Tin makes his all-talking (or is it all-barking?) debut in Warner Bros.' Frozen River. In characteristic fashion, Rinty braves the elements to rescue heroine Nina Quartero from the villains, a gang of cutthroats and thieves. The doggie hero also comes to the aid of little Davey Lee Read More

Rinty of the Desert

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Audrey Ferris, Otto Hoffman

Synopsis: Despite the challenges of his many imitators, there was only one Rin Tin Tin, as proven in such tailor-made vehicles as Rinty of the Desert. The plot is summed up by the title, as Rinty rescues heroine Audrey Ferris and hero Carroll Nye from all manner of desert dangers, both natural and man-made. Read More

Race for Life

Actors: Virginia Brown Faire, Carroll Nye, Bobby Gordon, James Mason, Pat Hartigan

Synopsis: Canine star Rin Tin Tin topped the cast of Warner Bros.' A Race for Life. The combination of star and title was in itself enough to pack theaters, but Warners insisted upon adding a plot, if only to appease the critics. In this one, Rinty becomes the best pal of juvenile "human" hero Danny O'Shea (Bobby Gordon Read More

Land of the Silver Fox

Actors: Leila Hyams, John Miljan, Carroll Nye, Tom Santschi

Synopsis: Land of the Silver Fox was one of the last silent starring vehicles for celebrated canine star Rin Tin Tin. In this one, Rinty heads to the Canadian Northwest, where he befriends likeable fox trapper Carroll Nye. The "human" hero is in love with Leila Hyams, the ward of duplicitous trading-camp Read More

Dog of the Regiment

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Tom Gallery, Dorothy Gulliver, John Peters

Synopsis: This silent drama presents a fictional biography of the courageous canine Rin-Tin-Tin. The tale begins as an American lawyer arrives in Germany to help prevent his client from being cheated out of her estate by a German shyster. When the Yankee wins the case, the girl and her dog Rinty are filled Read More

Hills of Kentucky

Actors: Jason Robards, Sr., Dorothy Dwan, Tom Santschi, Rin Tin Tin

Synopsis: Hills of Kentucky is regarded as the best of the Rin-Tin-Tin vehicles, largely because it is the most readily available. When famine hits the Kentucky hinterlands, Rinty is set free by his masters, who can't afford to feed him. Though he goes through a period of feeling rejected, the doggy star Read More

Jaws of Steel

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Jason Robards, Sr., Helen Ferguson, Mary Louise Miller, Jack Curtis

Synopsis: Jaws of Steel is not the name of a carnival sideshow act, but rather the title of this standard 1928 Rin Tin Tin vehicle. In this one, the doggy hero is abandoned in the desert while in pup-hood. Upon reaching maturity, Tin Tin has undeservedly earned the reputation as a killer canine. Thus, the Read More

Tracked by the Police

Actors: Jason Robards, Sr., Virginia Brown Faire, Tom Santschi

Synopsis: This lively Rin Tin Tin drama throws in everything but the kitchen sink. This time Rinty finds himself on the site of a dam project, where the villains intend to destroy the huge structure for their own gain. Our canine hero not only prevents the sabotaging of the dam but also participates in a Read More

While London Sleeps

Actors: DeWitt Jennings, Helene Costello, Otto Matiesen, Rin Tin Tin

Synopsis: Canine star Rin Tin Tin Jr. finds himself in foggy London town in this fast-paced meller. The story doesn't make much sense, but it seems to have something to do with a vicious "ape man" who holds the city in thrall. The hirsute villain overpowers hero Walter Merrill and abducts heroine Helene Costello Read More

Hero of the Big Snows

The Night Cry

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, John Harron, June Marlowe, Gayne Whitman

Synopsis: The Night Cry was a tailor-made vehicle for canine star Rin-Tin-Tin, who at the time was Warner Bros.' most valuable commodity. In this one, Rinty is falsely accused of being a sheepkiller and spends the rest of the picture proving his innocence. On the verge of being killed by an angry mob, our Read More

Clash of the Wolves

Synopsis: Filmed on locations at Joshua Tree National Monument and Chatsworth, CA, this surviving Rin Tin Tin melodrama features the famous canine as Lobo, the "half-breed" leader of a pack of wolves. When forest fires ruin their habitat, the starving animals trek down into the desert, where they in Read More

Below the Line

Actors: John Harron, June Marlowe, Pat Hartigan, Victor Potel

Synopsis: This melodrama required less stunts than usual from dog star Rin-Tin-Tin and more "acting." Always the trouper, Rin-Tin-Tin proved to be the histrionic equal of his co-stars. Slasher (Rin-Tin-Tin, a famed fighting dog, falls off the train that is carrying him. He is found, broken in spirit, by Read More

Tracked in the Snow Country

Actors: June Marlowe, David Butler, Mitchell Lewis, Charles Sellon

Synopsis: The most popular canine star of his era, Rin Tin Tin is falsely accused of killing his owner, an old prospector (Charles Sellon), and forced to flee into the woods in this exciting Northwest melodrama produced by Warner Brothers. The real murderer, however, is Jules Renault (Mitchell Lewis), who Read More

The Lighthouse by the Sea

Actors: Louise Fazenda, William Collier, Jr., Matthew Betz

Synopsis: Based on a play by Owen Davis, Lighthouse By the Sea top-bills Warner Bros.' most successful male star of 1924: dauntless doggy Rin-Tin-Tin. The "human" plot involves the efforts by the daughter (Louise Fazenda) of an aged lighthouse keeper (Charles Hill Mailes) to hide the fact that her father Read More

Find Your Man

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, June Marlowe, Charles Hill Mailes, Pat Hartigan

Synopsis: Paul Andrews (Eric St. Clair) returns from the World War (there was only one in those days) with Buddy, a dog he found in Europe (Rin-Tin-Tin, who was actually found during the war as a puppy). Instead of getting a warm welcome, he finds his sweetheart, Caroline Blair (June Marlowe), missing. As Read More

Where the North Begins

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Claire Adams, Walter McGrail, Pat Hartigan

Synopsis: Although Rin Tin Tin had appeared before in several films, this Northwoods drama was his first starring vehicle. The story line is fairly typical for its genre, and the famed canine is pretty much the whole show. The Wolf Dog (Rin Tin Tin) is raised by a pack of wolves and becomes pals with Read More

Shadows of the North

Synopsis: Edison Marshall's 1922 novel about prospectors in Northern Canada, The Skyline of Spruce, came to the screen the following year courtesy of Universal. Veteran action star William Desmond played "Wolf" Darby, who -- with his father "Pancake" (James O. Barrows) -- is prospecting in Canada when he is Read More

My Dad

Actors: Johnnie Walker, Wilbur Higby, Ruth Clifford, Les Bates

Synopsis: Like many an aspiring star before him, canine actor Rin Tin Tin freelanced for various studios, playing supporting roles before landing a contract with one of the majors. Rin Tin Tin performed in this undistinguished Northwoods drama from F.B.O. the year before he (or, rather, his trainer, Lee Read More

Man from Hell's River

Actors: Irving Cummings, Eva Novak, Robert Klein, Wallace Beery

Synopsis: aka Hell's River Just about every actor has to work his way up from supporting roles and this even includes Rin-Tin-Tin. Known only as Rin Tin in 1922, he made a stunning debut in this drama of the Northwest, based on the James Oliver Curwood novel, The God of Her People. Pretty Maballa (Eva Read More