Before there was such a thing as a “bad breed” there was Luke, a pit bull terrier who appeared in many films with his master, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle (1887-1933), from 1914 to 1920, along with Buster Keaton and Al St. John.
Born in 1913, he became one of the first canine film stars, earned $150 a week for his master and was very popular with audiences. A high energy companion to the slapstick antics of his human costars, he was a natural for early comedy shorts. Very people oriented, friendly and agreeable to the oddities that came with working in comedy pictures at the time, in the course of his career he fearlessly performing such stunts as jumping from great heights, climbing two story ladders, running across rooftops, and leaping from one moving car to another. In addition he never failed to chase off the bad guy or save the lady in distress.
Clips are from:
Butcher Boy (1917)
Coney Island (1917)
The Cook (1918)
Fatty’s Faithful Fido (1915)
Fatty’s New Role (1915)
Fatty’s Plucky Pup (1915)
The Garage (1919)
The Hayseed (1919)
The Knockout (1914)
