Bamboo harvester
Bamboo Harvester ( English for bamboo - Harvester , born in 1949 in El Monte , California ; died probably in 1968 on the Snodgrass Farm , Tahlequah, Oklahoma ) was an American horse as title imaging animal performer in the series Mr. Ed was known.
Life
Bamboo Harvester, a mix of an American Saddlebred and an Arab , was a palomino and was intended as a dressage horse . The gelding performed at various events. At the age of nine, Lester Hilton , a student of Will Rogers' , bought Bamboo Harvester and trained it to be a TV horse. At the age of 12 he appeared for the first time as “Mr. Ed ”on the television show of the same name. The special thing was the horse's mouth movements, which made it appear as if the horse could speak. How Hilton performed this trick was not known for many years. Performer Alan Young spread the rumor that peanut butter was used . Long after the series ended, in an interview in 2009, he admitted that he had just made it up. In fact, in the first few episodes, the horse's lips were moved with nylon thread. Later, however, the horse learned to move its lips by touching its hoof. Bamboo Harvester played “Mr. Ed ”from 1961 to 1966. His dubbing voice was Allan Lane , in the German version Helmut Krauss . Bamboo Harvester has twice (1962 and 1963) won the Patsy Award , a kind of Oscar for animal actors. In 1964 he finished second and in 1965 third.
After the show was canceled, things went quiet around the horse. It played no other roles. It is believed that he was euthanized in 1968 at the age of 19 after he began to suffer from several illnesses, including arthritis and a kidney problem. In fact, in 1978 a horse was named "Mr. Ed ”in Oklahoma , which was only available for promo photos. There was also a stunt double named Pumpkin, whose fate is unknown.
On August 26, 1990, in honor of “Mr. Ed ”erected a memorial in the form of a headstone at the place where he died on Snodgrass Farm near Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Funding came from donations made by Tulsa Radio Station 104.5 FM. There the wrong date of death is given as February 22, 1979.
Web links
- Bamboo Harvester in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mr Ed sitcom star Alan Young dies at 96 . In: BBC News . May 21, 2016 ( bbc.com [accessed September 16, 2017]).
- ↑ a b Bamboo Harvester. TV.com , accessed April 22, 2016 .
- ^ A b About the Television Series Mr. Ed the talking Horse. Horsefame.tripod.com, accessed April 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Mister Ed. Findagrave.com , accessed April 23, 2016 .