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SAMMY THE WAY-OUT SEAL
Originally aired on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Airdates: October 28, 1962 (part 1); November 4, 1962 (part 2)
Dane name: not given
A young boy (Billy Mummy) befriends a seal. When the seal escapes, it is chased around town (mostly through a grocery store) by a pack of dogs including a Fawn Great Dane. The two parts were edited together and released in Europe and home video as a feature.

SCHINDLER'S LIST
Year: 1994
Dane name: not given
Spielberg's Oscar winning black and white movie of Oskar Schindler who took it upon himself to rescue Jews from the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. A Harlequin Great Dane appears a few times with his owner, a Nazi soldier.


SCOOBY DOO
Year: 2002
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Scooby Doo in his live action debut via computer animation. Scooby & the gang are called to an Amusement Park called Spooky Island by its strange owner. He is worried something on the island is possessing the young visitors.


SCOOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED
Year: 2004
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
The town of Coolsville is overrun with REAL monsters from an exhibit honoring Mystery Inc. Scooby and the gang go back to their roots to solve the mystery. Live action with a cgi Scooby.


SCOOBY-DOO! ABRACADABRA-DOO
Year: 2010
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Direct to video movie has Mystery Inc visiting the Whirlen Merlin Magic Academy and discovering an evil Griffin on the premises.


SCOOBY-DOO AND THE ALIEN INVADERS
Year: 2000
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Direct to video movie has Mystery Inc encounter mysterious activity around an alleged UFO sighting. While searching for clues, Shaggy and Scooby meet up with the girls of their dreams.


SCOOBY-DOO AND THE CYBER CHASE
Year: 2001
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Direct to video movie has Mystery Inc getting caught in a videogame. Their only chance to escape is to team up with computer generated version's of themselves and fight a growing computer virus.


SCOOBY-DOO AND THE GHOUL SCHOOL
Year: 1988
Dane name: Scooby-Doo & Scrappy
TV movie with Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy. The trio find themselves at a school for children of famous monsters. They help the kids win a big sporting event.


SCOOBY-DOO AND THE GOBLIN KING
Year: 2008
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Direct to video movie has Scooby and Shaggy venture into the underworld to save their friends.


SCOOBY-DOO AND THE LEGEND OF THE VAMPIRE
Year: 2003
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Direct to video movie has Mystery Inc attending a music contest at Vampire Rock in Australia. Suddenly the bands start being kidnapped by a vampire!


SCOOBY-DOO AND THE LOCH NESS MONSTER
Year: 2004
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Direct to video movie has Mystery Inc in Scotland and investigating one of history's great mysteries - the Loch Ness Monster.


SCOOBY-DOO AND THE MONSTER OF MEXICO
Year: 2003
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Direct to video movie has Mystery Inc visiting Mexico to celebrate the Day of the Dead only to find Mexico's own "bigfoot", El Chupacabra on the loose.


SCOOBY-DOO AND THE RELUCTANT WEREWOLF
Year: 1988
Dane name: Scooby-Doo & Scrappy
TV movie with Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy. A curse turns Shaggy into a werewolf.


SCOOBY-DOO AND THE SAMURAI SWORD
Year: 2009
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Direct to video movie has Mystery Inc visiting the Far East and getting involved in a search for the mystical Sword of Fate.


SCOOBY-DOO AND THE WITCH'S GHOST
Year: 1999
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Direct to video movie has Mystery Inc encounter real witchcraft and an ancient curse at a town's celebration.


SCOOBY-DOO! CAMP SCARE
Year: 2010
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Direct to video movie has Fred becoming a counselor at Camp Little Moose, where he spent his younger days. The Mystery Inc gang tags along only to discover the camp is being shut down due to "The Woodsman", a ghostly figure haunting the site.


SCOOBY-DOO! CURSE OF THE LAKE MONSTER
Year: 2010
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
TV movie with the high school version of Mystery Inc. This time the gang has taken jobs at a country club run by Daphne's uncle. A club with an apparently haunted lake. Live action with a cgi Scooby.


SCOOBY-DOO IN ARABIAN NIGHTS
Year: 1994
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
TV movie with Scooby and Shaggy. Scooby and Shaggy tell a young sultan two stories - one has Yogi and BooBoo as genies; the other has Magilla as Sinbad.


SCOOBY-DOO IN WHERE'S MY MUMMY?
Year: 2005
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Direct to video movie has Mystery Inc visiting Egypt and discovering supernatural activities around a burial site.


SCOOBY-DOO! LEGEND OF THE PHANTOSAUR
Year: 2011
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Scooby and the gang decide to relax at a spa. While there, they hear of the legend of the Phantosaur, a beast brought to life by native americans to protect a burial ground.


SCOOBY-DOO MEETS THE BOO BROTHERS
Year: 1987
Dane name: Scooby-Doo & Scrappy
TV movie with Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy. When Shaggy inherits a house, he finds it haunted by three kooky ghosts - who resemble the Three Stooges.


SCOOBY-DOO ON ZOMBIE ISLAND
Year: 1998
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Direct to video movie revitalizes the series... and has Mystery Inc meet up with real monsters!


SCOOBY-DOO! PIRATES AHOY!
Year: 2006
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
Direct to video movie has Mystery Inc taking a mystery cruise through the Bermuda Triangle and meeting up with ghost pirates in search of a missing treasure.


SCOOBY-DOO! THE MYSTERY BEGINS
Year: 2009
Dane name: Scooby-Doo
TV movie featuring the origin of how the Mystery Inc. gang met in high school and became a crime solving team. Live action with a cgi Scooby.


SCREAMING MIMI
Year: 1958
Dane name: Devil
An exotic dancer (Anita Ekberg) sees a man shot just as he is trying to kill her. Soon she is implicated in a series of murders. The dancer has a Fawn Great Dane.


SELLING A PET DOG
Year: 1902
Dane name: Devil
This early silent short features a Great Dane. It begins with him doing tricks for a little girl. The dog is then sold and delivered, but the dog does not want to leave his home.

SEVEN CHANCES
Year: 1925
Dane name: not given
This silent black & white Buster Keaton comedy feature tells the tale of a man who learns that he'll inherit a fortune if married by 7 pm that day! The Great Dane, a pet of the leading lady's character, is at first being portrayed by a tiny Dalmatian puppy the dog grows up into a Harlequin Great Dane with natural ears that turn to cropped and back to natural. The dog gets the center of attention at the end of the feature.


SEVEN POUNDS
Year: 2008
Dane name: Duke
Will Smith stars a man with a past who is out to help the lives of seven people. And by coincidence, he falls for one of them and it changes his. The lady he falls for is Emily Posa (played by Rosario Dawson) owns a large mantle Great Dane.

Duke was played by two brothers - Jack & Bobby.

THE SHAGGY D.A.
Year: 1976
Dane name: Brutus
In this sequel to Disney's THE SHAGGY DOG, the young boy who turns into a big shaggy dog has grown up and decides to run for District Attorney at the same time his shapeshifting curse returns. After his first "return" as a shaggy dog, he has a run in with a large Dane called Brutus - according to the dog house the Dane lives in.


THE SHEIK
Year: 1921
Dane name: not given
This is the film that made Rudolph Valentino the greatest sex symbol of the silent era. A Harlequin Great Dane appears briefly, with Valentino's character, Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, in front of the Sheik's tent, just after he has kidnapped the character Lady Diana Mayo, played by Agnes Ayres.


SIMON BIRCH
Year: 1998
Dane name: Brutus
The film follows two young outcasts in a small town. Joe Wenteworth (Joseph Mazzello), an out-of-wedlock son, and Simon (Ian Michael Smith), the smallest person anyone in town has ever seen. While the pair is hiding, a natural ear Brindle Dane comes down a hallway and slurps Simon. Brutus was played by Smitty's Big Chill owned/bred by Smitty's Great Danes in Mississauga, Ontario Canada.


SITTING PRETTY
Year: 1948
Dane name: Henry
An out of control family with a Fawn Great Dane hires a male nanny (Clifton Webb as Mr. Belvedere) that surprisingly brings order and harmony to the group.


SIX OF A KIND
Year: 1934
Dane name: Herman; a.k.a. Rang Tang Tang
Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland are a couple planning their second honeymoon. To save money the wife invites another couple (George Burns and Gracie Allen) who bring their fawn Great Dane.


THE SMILING GHOST
Year: 1941
Dane name: Not given
Story is about a woman whose previous fiances have all died. Her aunt hires a fellow named "Lucky" in hopes to break the curse. A Fawn Great Dane is seen briefly.


SOMETHING ABOUT MARY
Year: 1998
Dane name: not given
In this zany romantic comedy, a Fawn Great Dane is owned by one of the main character's friend. The Dane is seen in the back of a car and later in an apartment where he grabs a script.


STAR TREK GENERATIONS
Year: 1994
Dane name: Butler
This movie bridged the theatrical gap between the original Star Trek crew and those of the Next Generation. The story involves a mysterious region of space called the Nexus where time seems to stand still. Captain Kirk becomes trapped in this void - where he lives happily with his Great Dane, Butler.


STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Year: 1951
Dane name: Hamlet
Hitchcock classic about two men who meet on a train and the strange relationship that grows. A Fawn Great Dane lives with the mother of one of the men (Robert Walker).


STRICTLY DYNAMITE
Year: 1934
Dane name: not given
Jimmy Durante stars as a poet who writes jokes for radio. In one scene he enters a talent agent's office in the company of two Brindle Great Danes. When the receptionist asks the breed of the dogs, Durante responds "full blooded mongoose". At the end of the scene, the Danes break into an un-rehearsed quarrel caught on camera.


SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
Year: 1960
Dane names: Duke & Turk
The Disney classic about a shipwrecked family's survival on a uninhabited island. Duke and Turk, the two fawn Danes, are also survivors of the shipwreck and become the family's protectors - at one time warding off a tiger! Based on a book by Johann David Wyss, this version's cast includes John Mills and James MacArthur. Note: 'Duke' later played Brutus' stunt dog in The Ugly Dachshund.(1965)


SWORD IN THE STONE
Year: 1963
Dane names: Tiger & Talbot
Disney's animated version of how young Arthur became King of England with the help of Merlin, the Magician. Tiger and Talbot, natural earred Great Danes who live with young Arthur (nicknamed Wart), are seen briefly greeting him with sloppy Dane kisses. The movie is based on the book "The Once and Future King" by T.H. White.


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