Captain Phifer Net Worth is
$3 Million

Mini Biography

Volney Phifer, (1898-1974) in any other case known in the film industry seeing that Captain Phifer, originated from a background of Vaudeville and circuses, and was most renowned to be the principle wrangler of all of the pets used on a huge selection of MGM productions in the mid teens towards the later 1950s, like the most well-known of them all of the, Leo The Lion, Cheetah the Tarzan Ape and Toto The Wizard of Oz Pet dog. He traveled broadly touring Leo the Lion around within a caravan to trumpet the most recent MGM creation, and was dispatched by MGM to remote control locations to control animals showing up in films such as for example Investor Horn (Africa 1930), where outrageous creatures took the life span of some staff associates. For the film Eskimo (1931) he used residence in just one more remote control and wild area in the Arctic. He helped build a vast Chinese language farm occur California for the 1937 creation The Good Globe. His focus on Gone WITH ALL THE Wind, dealing with the countless horses and various other animals was necessary to the secure and integrated character of how those pets finally come in that seminal film and the rest of the movies from the Golden Age group of MGM. Phifer educated the initial Goldwyn lion, Slats, who initial made an appearance in the 1917 Goldwyn creation and was utilized through the entire merger into MGM and on until 1928. From 1929 a fresh Leo, Jackie, also from Phifer’s steady, (there have been several Leos through the years) documented the initial MGM logo using a roar, playfully destroying several microphones before final effective take. Jackie passed away in 1938, age group 23, and was buried at Phifer’s pet plantation in Gillette NJ. This pet farm was house to many pets that were utilized both in films and on Broadway displays. Phifer was raised around pets; his mom was a circus pet wrangler, and Phifer himself experienced strong circus contacts during his operating life. Phifer passed away in 1974, aged 76. Each one of these years later on his vast assortment of circus and film posters, memorabilia and additional uncommon and personal artifacts are becoming auctioned away. (Oct 2012). The collection have been bequeathed to Phifer’s sister in legislation Alma McCutcheon who passed away lately aged around 96.

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