''Fluffy'' is a 1965 American
comedy film
The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...
written by Samuel Roeca, directed by
Earl Bellamy
Earl Arthur Bellamy (March 11, 1917 – November 30, 2003) was an American television and film director.
Biography
Bellamy was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was also known as Earl J. Bellamy, or Earl J. Bellamy, Jr.
"Earl Bellamy." Contem ...
, and starring
Tony Randall
Anthony Leonard Randall (born Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg; February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was an American actor of film, television and stage. He is best known for portraying the role of Felix Unger in the 1970–1975 television adaptation of ...
and
Shirley Jones
Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American actress and singer. In her six decades in show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of musical films, such as ''Oklahoma! (film), Oklahoma!'' (1955), ''Carousel (fi ...
(with an uncharacteristic brunette hairstyle). The storyline concerns a scientist's effort to prove that a wild animal (in this case, a lion named Fluffy) can be made into a pet with proper training.
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Tony Randall
Anthony Leonard Randall (born Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg; February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was an American actor of film, television and stage. He is best known for portraying the role of Felix Unger in the 1970–1975 television adaptation of ...
as Professor Daniel Potter
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Shirley Jones
Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American actress and singer. In her six decades in show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of musical films, such as ''Oklahoma! (film), Oklahoma!'' (1955), ''Carousel (fi ...
as Janice Claridge
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Edward Andrews
Edward Bryan Andrews Jr. (October 9, 1914 – March 8, 1985) was an American stage, film and television actor. Andrews was one of the most recognizable character actors on television and in films from the 1950s through the 1980s. His stark whi ...
as Griswald
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Howard Morris
Howard Jerome Morris (September 4, 1919 – May 21, 2005) was an American actor, comedian, and director. He was best known for his role in ''The Andy Griffith Show'' as Ernest T. Bass, and as "Uncle Goopy" in a celebrated comedy sketch on Sid ...
as Sweeney
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Ernest Truex
Ernest Truex (September 19, 1889 – June 26, 1973) was an American actor of stage, film, and television.
Career
Truex was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He learned acting at an early age after his father, a doctor, treated actor Edwin Melvin, w ...
as Mr. Claridge
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Jim Backus
James Gilmore Backus (February 25, 1913 – July 3, 1989) was an American actor. Among his most famous roles were Thurston Howell III on the 1960s sitcom ''Gilligan's Island,'' the father of James Dean's character in '' Rebel Without a Cause, ...
as Sergeant
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Frank Faylen
Frank Faylen (born Charles Francis Ruf; December 8, 1905 – August 2, 1985) was an American film and television actor. Largely a bit player and character actor, he occasionally played more fleshed-out supporting roles during his forty-two ...
as Catfish
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Celia Kaye
Celia Kaye (born February 24, 1942) is an American actress. She starred in the 1964 film adaptation of '' Island of the Blue Dolphins'' which won her a Golden Globe award.
Early life
Kaye is of German and Cherokee descent and was born in Cart ...
as Sally Brighton
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Dick Sargent
Richard Stanford Cox (April 19, 1930 – July 8, 1994), known professionally as Dick Sargent, was an American actor. He is best known for being the second actor to portray Darrin Stephens on ABC's fantasy sitcom ''Bewitched''. He took the name ...
as Tommy
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Adam Roarke
Adam Roarke (born Richard Jordan Gerler, August 8, 1937 – April 27, 1996) was an American actor and film director.
Life and career
Roarke was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he was a street gang member during his youth. His father was a vau ...
as Bob Brighton
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Whit Bissell
Whitner Nutting Bissell (October 25, 1909 – March 5, 1996) was an American character actor.
Early life
Born in New York City, Bissell was the son of surgeon Dr. J. Dougal Bissell and Helen Nutting Bissell. He was educated at the Allen-S ...
as Dr. Braden
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Harriet MacGibbon
Harriet Elizabeth MacGibbonUnited Press (September 3, 1930)"Pair Given Waiver to Go On with Wedding" ''Camden Courier-Post''. p. 9. Retrieved July 2, 2023."Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1949", database, FamilySearch (http ...
as Mrs. Claridge
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Jim Boles
Jim Boles (February 28, 1914 – May 26, 1977) was an American actor. He appeared in the films '' The Tattooed Stranger'', '' The Man with My Face'', '' Naked in the Sun'', '' Fluffy'', '' The Ghost and Mr. Chicken'', '' The Trouble with Angels' ...
as Pete
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Parley Baer
Parley Edward Baer (August 5, 1914 – November 22, 2002) was an American actor in radio and later in television and film. Despite dozens of appearances in television series and theatrical films, he remains best known as the original "Chester" ...
as Police Captain
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Connie Gilchrist
Rose Constance Gilchrist (July 17, 1895 – March 3, 1985) was an American stage, film, and television actress. Among her screen credits are roles in the Hollywood productions '' Cry 'Havoc (1943), '' A Letter to Three Wives'' (1949), ''L ...
as Maid
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Stuart Randall as State Trooper
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Sammee Tong as Cook
* Barry O'Hara as Fireman #2
* Sam Gilman as Policeman
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Milton Frome as Tweedy Physicist
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Doodles Weaver
Winstead Sheffield "Doodles" Weaver (May 11, 1911 – January 16, 1983) was an American character actor, comedian, and musician.
Born into a wealthy West Coast family, Weaver began his career in radio. In the late 1930s, he performed on Rudy Va ...
as Yokel
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1965 films
1965 comedy films
American comedy films
1960s French-language films
Films about lions
Films directed by Earl Bellamy
Films set in Los Angeles
Films shot in Kenya
Universal Pictures films
1960s English-language films
1960s American films
Films scored by Irving Gertz
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