Gentle Ben - Wikipedia. Dust jacket of the original 1. E. P. Dutton edition of Gentle Ben by Walt Morey.
Gentle Ben is a bear character created by author Walt Morey and first introduced in a 1. Gentle Ben. The story provided the basis for the 1. Gentle Giant (1. 96. U. S. However, due to the decline in demand for pulp fiction caused by the advent of broadcast television in the 1. Morey stopped writing for ten years. His wife, a schoolteacher, challenged him to write adventure stories that would interest young readers, similar to those of Jack London.
After several years, Morey took up her challenge with the goal of producing an adventure story for young readers that adults could also enjoy. The result was Gentle Ben, which was based on Morey's own past experiences working and traveling in Alaska. Morey said that many of the book characters were based on real Alaskan people he had met. According to Morey, the concept of a boy's friendship with an Alaskan brown bear was also taken from real life, and such friendships and interactions between humans and bears were not unusual in Alaska. Originally published in 1. E. P. Dutton, the novel was a success, selling nearly 3 million copies and winning the Dutton Animal Book Award that year.
Morey went on to write many more children's novels, often involving themes of nature, animals and survival, but is best known for Gentle Ben. Synopsis of the novel. Mark is lonely after the death of his older brother, and befriends an Alaskan brown bear named Ben that was captured as a cub by local drunkard Fog Benson.
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Ben, now a large adult bear, spends his days chained alone in a shack on Benson's property, and the lonely bear bonds with the lonely boy who secretly visits him. Mark's parents are initially upset that he visits Ben, but eventually see that Mark and Ben have a special friendship and buy Ben from Fog Benson for Mark, on the condition that Mark help his father with the fishing to pay him back. However, Fog Benson and his friends attack Ben and Ben fights back, injuring Fog. The townspeople, who generally regard brown bears as wild and unpredictable, now think that Ben is dangerous, and Mark is forced to abandon Ben on an island, where Ben is still menaced by Fog Benson and hunters.
Soon afterwards, Karl's fishing boat is destroyed in a storm, so he takes a job minding a fish trap on the island where Ben is living, which leads to Mark and Ben renewing their friendship. Then Ben helps a wealthy businessman and trophy hunter visiting the island, Peter King, who has gotten trapped under a rock. Ben gently rolls the rock off him. The grateful King pays a local guide to protect Ben and ends up going into business with Karl Andersen, so Ben will be safe and the Andersen's financial fortunes are greatly improved.
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Memorial statue. It was later found and returned to the park. At that time, Tors was focusing on films and television shows involving animals and directed at a family audience. He had previously had popular hits with the 1. Flipper about a boy's friendship with a wild dolphin, which led to a television series of the same name, and with the 1. Clarence, the Cross- Eyed Lion, which led to the 1.
However, the release date for Gentle Giant was moved to be closer to Thanksgiving. As a result, by the time Gentle Giant was released, the Gentle Ben TV series based on the film had already been airing for six weeks. The film, which was a prequel to the TV series, served as promotion for the series already in progress. The film Gentle Giant and TV series Gentle Ben had the same main characters. Bruno the Bear also appeared as . The film was shot on location in the Florida. Everglades and in the old fishing town of Port Salerno, Florida.
Differences from the novel. Tors had an active Florida- based film studio at the time. The Andersens' last name was changed to Wedloe, and the father's first name to Tom, rather than Karl.
Fog Benson's last name was also changed to Hanson. The character of Mark was made much younger in the film; Clint Howard was 6 years old when he was cast. In the novel, Mark is a young teenager who is small for his age. In the film, Mark's father is a pilot who works spotting fish for fishermen, has a plane crash and then becomes a wildlife officer, whereas in the book, Mark's father is a fisherman whose boat is destroyed in a storm, causing him to take a job maintaining a fish trap.
In the film, Mark actually sees Fog shoot Ben's mother and capture the cub Ben, and reports Fog to the local wildlife officer, who fines Fog for illegal hunting. In the book, Mark does not witness the actual killing and capture, and only becomes aware of Ben after Fog brings him to town to show him off and then later chains him in a shack. In the film, Mark and his family give Ben away to a zoo rather than leaving him on an island as in the book. However, Ben escapes on the way to the zoo and swims to a wilderness area of the Everglades. The character . At the end of the film, instead of Ben rolling a rock off Peter King, Ben instead rolls a fallen tree off Mark's father, regaining his trust. At the end of the film, Ben is shown protecting his female mate and cubs, a scene which is not in the book (and is unlikely behavior for a male bear). Clint Howard, an experienced child TV actor, was cast in the main role of Mark, and Dennis Weaver and Vera Miles played his parents, while the villain Fog Hanson was played by Ralph Meeker.
Howard and Weaver played the same roles in the weekly television series. Clint Howard's father Rance Howard appeared in the film as Tater Coughlin, one of Fog Hanson's gang, but played a completely different recurring role (as Henry Boomhauer, the Wedloes' neighbor) in the TV series. Several black bears appeared in the film, portraying Ben's mother, Ben at different stages of his life from cub to full- grown adult, and Ben's mate and cubs. According to Derrick Rosaire Sr.
Ben as a full- grown adult was played primarily by Bruno, who also was the main bear playing Ben in the TV series. Gentle Ben. The series chronicled the adventures of young Mark Wedloe (played by Clint Howard) and his lovable 6. Ben. Gentle Ben was produced by Ivan Tors, who also produced the Gentle Giant pilot film. Tors was an established producer of successful TV series, including Lloyd Bridges' Sea Hunt, Flipper and Daktari.
Like the Gentle Giant film, the TV series Gentle Ben was set in Florida (allowing Tors to use his own studio facilities there) rather than Alaska, and Ben was a large black bear instead of the brown bear of the original novel. The TV series picked up the story where Gentle Giant left off, with Mark's father Tom Wedloe already a wildlife officer in the Everglades, and Ben an adult bear and established family pet living outside (or sometimes inside) the Wedloes' house. Cast of the TV series. Clint Howard and Dennis Weaver continued their roles from the Gentle Giant film. The role of Ellen Wedloe, played in Gentle Giant by Vera Miles, was recast for the TV series with Beth Brickell, after Diana Muldaur turned down the part. The Boomhauer character appeared in nearly half the episodes and was played by Clint's real- life father Rance Howard (who also wrote episodes for the show). Other recurring characters included Hank Minegar, a squatter played by Robertson White (who had a different small role in Gentle Giant) and Willie, a friend of Mark's, played by Angelo Rutherford.
Although several black bears were used to play Ben, depending on what behavior was required for a particular scene, the role was played primarily by Bruno the Bear (who also played adult Ben in the Gentle Giant film). Although the network wanted to have Ben speak like a human on the show, Tors disliked the idea, so Ben only made animal noises. Notable guest stars included Burt Reynolds, Jay Silverheels, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens, Victor French, and Clint Howard's brother Ron Howard. Bears in the TV series.
The bears were obtained from Canada or near the Canada- U. S. The bears were declawed and had most of their teeth removed. Helfer stated that four bears were used to portray Ben, with other sources naming or listing additional bears, who may have been used in particular scenes or as stand- in bears. Some episodes and sequences also involved bear cubs or other bear characters that may have required additional bears. Bruno was the favorite bear actor because of his good disposition, broad range of behaviors, facial expressions, and ability to work with children. A bear named Buck, who closely resembled Bruno but was a slightly smaller, younger and more agile bear, was used for scenes requiring the bear to run. According to Clint Howard, Bruno the bear and Buck the bear together did approximately 7.
A bear named Drum frequently appeared in scenes requiring the bear to enter water. Drum's coat was brown and had to be spray- painted to match the black coats of the other bears playing Ben. In the 1. 98. 0s, Dennis Weaver recalled that a bear named Hammer, who occasionally misbehaved on the set, was used for bear scenes involving water. Other bears reportedly used included Smokey, Oscar, Baron, Tudor, Virgil, and a bear (identity unknown) with a tendency to fight who was used for bear fight scenes.
Bear trainer Tuffy Truesdell, who owned nine bears including the elder and younger Victor the Wrestling Bear, also claimed that his bears did . Other animal trainers involved in the series included Ron Oxley and Steve Martin. Bruno and some of the other bears were trained using .
However, food rewards were used to motivate at least one bear who responded better to that method. Bruno reportedly lived with Cox in a Miami apartment, sometimes even following him into the shower and sleeping in his bed. During and after the run of the TV series, the name . Bruno's name was changed to . Oxley and Martin made personal appearances at fairs and events with a bear (often Drum) billed as .