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Updated June 22, 2024
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The Sons of Celluloid
All the entries where something moves on your TV or computer screen are here: movies, TV-series, videos, computer games...
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Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
1996
Country
USA
Directed by
Stephen Herek
Written by
Dodie Smith (novel), John Hughes (screenplay)
Company credits
Great Oaks Entertainment, Walt Disney Pictures (production), Buena Vista Pictures (distribution)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Also starring
Glenn Close (Cruella De Vil), Jeff Daniels (Roger), Joely Richardson (Anita) etc.
Comments
Based on Dodie Smith's The Hundred And One Dalmatians, or possibly rather on the cartoon version Disney did back in the 1960s. Anyway, the plot goes something like this (from Internet Movie Database): "Fashion designer Anita and computer-game writer Roger meet, fall in love and marry along with their dalmations Perdita and Pongo. But the proud dogs' puppies are kidnapped by Anita's boss Cruella De Vil, who is stealing young dalmations to make the coat she has set her heart on. Enlisting the help of the British animal kingdom, Pongo and Perdita set out to find and rescue all ninety-nine pups from their fearsome captors, Jaspar and Horace". Family entertainment I believe... Personally, tried to watch this once but found myself unable to stomach the slapstick-and-pratfall formula. More knowledgeable persons have informed me that there's a brief glimpse of the Queen's Pembrokes in the "nighty bark" segment of the movie. This film also has a sequel titled, imaginatively enough, 102 Dalmatians.
Category
Movies, animated
Year
2002
Country
USA
Directed by
Jim Kammerud, Brian Smith
Written by
Garrett K. Schiff (story), Jim Kammerud (screenplay) etc.
Company credits
Walt Disney Pictures
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Lightning (voiced by Jason Alexander)
Also starring
Barry Bostwick (Thunderbolt's voice), Martin Short (Lars' voice), Bobby Lockwood (Patch's voice) etc.
Comments
In this sequel to the Di$ney animated classic 101 Dalmatians, the Corgi is in fact not the protagonist but the antagonist!
Just like the live action sequel to 101 Dalmatians i.e. 102 Dalmatians, this is not based on the sequel to the original Dalmatians book by Dodie Smith (The Starlight Barking).
Instead, as the title suggests, we follow the adventures of Patch, the feistiest of the original 99 pups, who "feels lost in a sea of spots and longs to be a one-of-a-kind wonderdog like his TV hero, Thunderbolt" (from Internet Movie Database). Thunderbolt's "trusty" sidekick, Lightning, schemes behind the TV star's tail and plots his downfall in order to become a star himself, but is of course foiled (as is Cruella DeVil) by Patch.
While it's obvious that a real Corgi would never stoop as low as Lightning (seriously!), I suppose we should really be gratefull that the Pem is displayed in a bad light (having seen what being portrayed in a Di$ney film can do to the wrong kind of popularity for a breed).
Links
http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/101dalmatians2/index.html
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2000
Country
USA
Directed by
Kevin Lima
Written by
Kristen Buckley et al.
Company credits
Cruella Productions, Walt Disney Pictures (production), Buena Vista International (distribution)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Also starring
Glenn Close (Cruella 'Ella' De Vil), Gérard Depardieu (Jean-Pierre Le Pelt), Ioan Gruffudd (Kevin Sheperd) etc.
Comments
Sequel to the Disney movie 101 Dalmatians, but not based on the sequel of the original book by Dodie Smith (The Starlight Barking). There's a brief shot of some Corgi puppies (apparently the puppies of the Queen's Corgis from the previous movie) in the "nighty bark" segment.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2009
Country
USA
Directed by
Roland Emmerich
Written by
Roland Emmerich & Harald Kloser
Produced by
Roland Emmerich, Ute Emmerich (executive producer), Larry J. Franco, Harald Kloser etc.
Company credits
Columbia Pictures, Centropolis Entertainment, Farewell Productions etc.
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Some of the Pembrokes of the Queen of Britain
Starring dogs
According to Beth Bakenhus, pembrokes from Bransuzi kennel in Victoria, BC (Canada) bred by Jill Ellis
Also starring
John Cusack (Jackson Curtis), Amanda Peet (Kate Curtis), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Adrian Helmsley), Thandie Newton (Laura Wilson)
Comments
Described in Internet Movie database as an "epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors", 2012 is the latests (as of the end of the year 2009) Roland Emmerich catastrophe/actioner blockbuster, and also the first really big budget movie to cash in on the year 2012 scare. It's not getting very good reviews but there's a minor corgi moment for people to enjoy (or not, as the case may be) with "Queen Elizabeth II attempting to wrangle a couple of corgis into a mankind-saving ark" to quote from Digital Spy review.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Episode
Season 4, episode 4: "9-1-1, What's Your Grievance?"
Year
2021
Country
USA
Directed by
Brenna Malloy
Written by
Nadia Abass-Madden
Produced by
Lou Eyrich, Eryn Krueger Mekash, Adam Penn etc.
Company credits
Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision, Ryan Murphy Television, 20th Television (production)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Archie
Also starring
Angela Bassett (Athena Grant-Nash), Peter Krause (Robert "Bobby" Nash), Jennifer Love Hewitt (Maddie Buckley Kendall)
Comments
Wikipedia informs us that "9-1-1 is an American procedural television series created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Tim Minear for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the lives of Los Angeles first responders: police officers, paramedics, firefighters, and dispatchers."
While the show as whole has no Corgi presence, season 4 episode 4 "9-1-1, What's Your Grievance?" has plenty (and the information above therefore refers primarily to that particular episode). A mysterious murder occurs during a neighborhood block party and Archie the Pembroke is in the thick of the investigation. As a credit to the writers (or maybe Angela Basset if she adlibbed the line), he is even correctly identified as "a Corgi" and not just "a dog".
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series, animated
Year
2001 (likely orginal air date of the corgi episode: 12/9/2001)
Country
United Kingdom/Canada
Corgi breed
Pembroke(?)
Also starring
Bob Monkhouse (Mr Hell), Jeff "Swampy" Marsh (Josh - The Reincarnation Guy)
Comments
An irreverent British/Canadian co-produced animated sketch show hosted by Mr Hell, a cartoon devil voiced by the comic legend Bob Monkhouse (who passed away in December 2003). Apparently there is at least one corgi in it somewhere, most likely a pembroke in the episode "Mr Hell Takes Buckingham Palace", which also features a Harry Potter send off.
Links
A summary of the show @ TV.com
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movies
Year
2002
Country
UK
Directed by
Chris Weitz
Written by
Nick Hornby (book), Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Company credits
StudioCanal, TriBeCa Productions, Working Title Films
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Cardis seen in the title sequence of "Pet Resque"
Also starring
Hugh Grant (Will Freeman), Nicholas Hoult (Marcus Brewer), Sharon Small (Christine)
Comments
Ron Stewart writes on Corgi-L mailing list: "On the recommendation of a friend, my wife and I watched About a Boy [...] At 44:27, [Will Freeman] is watching an English tv show called Pet Rescue, and the opening credits had a couple of Cardi faces for just a few frames."
So it is indeed, as Ron also says, a miniscule sighting but a sighting nevertheless.
Links
About the movie @ WikiPedia
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movies
Year
2015
Country
UK
Directed by
Terry Jones
Written by
Terry Jones & Gavin Scott
Company credits
Bill and Ben Productions, GFM Films, Premiere Picture (production), Lionsgate (distribution)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
(it would spoil the plot)
Also starring
Simon Pegg (Neil Clarke), Kate Beckinsale (Catherine West), Rob Riggle (Colonel Grant Kotche)
Comments
Movies about ordinary people gaining godlike powers — that's to say the power of doing pretty much absolutely anything — have been around a while, but when pressed for one readers probably will say Bruce Almighty (2003) and completely forget this British science fiction (very broadly speaking) comedy made a little more than a decade later.
It may be partly because, despite having a great main cast, a screenplay written by a Monty Python member and a voice cast consisting of all the then living members of that all-time great comedy group as well as Robin Williams (putting in his last main cast "appearance" as the voice of Dennis the dog), this movie just isn't very good. It hardly helps that the powers bestowed on the bumbling teacher Neil are supposed to derive from alien technology instead of a supernatural source as is the case in the aforementioned Jim Carrey starrer (which, by the way, isn't very good either IMHO).
It might have given the movie some (short) legs to stand on if Dennis was the Corgi of the movie, but unfortunately he isn't. And while I can't tell you the role of the Cardigan (because that would a spoil some of the funniest stuff in the movie), I can say it's pretty minor. So, I recommend to only watch this if you really have time to kill and aren't allergic to the British brand of wacky humor.
Links
About the movie @ WikiPedia
Category
Movies
Year
1988
Country
USA
Directed by
Lawrence Kasdan
Written by
Anne Tyler (book), Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan
Company credits
Warner Brothers (production & distribution), Industrial Light & Magic (fx)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring dog
Bud, a Trilogy Cardigan from Chuck and Joyce Murray (possibly also an Aelwyd kennel Cardigan from Karen Harbert); Bud also appeared in Dave and Dharma & Greg. Bud's sire Abner was reportedly used as a "promo dog" for the film, but it seems he wasn't seen in the movie itself.
Starring role
Edward
Also starring
William Hurt (Macon), Kathleen Turner (Sarah), Geena Davis (Muriel)
Comments
From Internet Movie Database: "As the film opens, Macon and his wife Sarah are trying to come to grips with the bizarre, violent death of their twelve year-old son. Sarah leaves Macon and Macon meets the charmingly odd Muriel who trains Macon's dog, Edward, who is at least as traumatized by the son's death as are Macon and Sarah"
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie, animated
Year
1989
Country
USA
Directed by
Don Bluth, Gary Goldman etc.
Written by
Don Bluth, Ken Cromar etc.
Company credits
Goldcrest Films, Ltd. & Sullivan Bluth Studios Ireland (production) etc.
Starring role
A Corgi briefly seen in the Casino scene
Also starring
Dom DeLuise (Itchy's voice), Burt Reynolds (Charlie B. Barkin's voice) etc.
Comments
This is an animated children's movie about "a dog [who] returns from the dead looking for revenge on his killer using an orphan girl who can talk to animals" (from Internet Movie Database). A Corgi is apparently seen in a Casino scene toward the begining of the film. He's trying to make a bet with an old collar instead of food as it's obviously supposed to. The Doberman tells him: "No markers, tail-pipe. Come back when you got some food". Oh the nerve (-;)
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2002
Country
USA
Directed by
Jay Roach
Written by
Mike Myers etc.
Company credits
New Line Cinema etc.
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A tricolour pem belonging to Queen Elizabeth
Also starring
Mike Myers (Austin Powers/Dr. Evil/Goldmember/Fat Bastard), Beyonc?Knowles (Foxxy Cleopatra) etc.
Comments
One of Queen's pembrokes (not the real ones obviously) makes a brief appearance in the third instalment of the "toilet humour meets spy movie parody, with a firm emphasis on the former" comedy movie series. According to a Corgi-L posting, the sighting is "only about a 15 second shot. It's still neat though." I'd be willing to dispute 15 seconds, make it 5 tops — it's really one of those "blink and you miss it" type of things and certainly does not make it worth sitting through the rest of the movie. The Pem coul've at least humped Austin's leg or something so it would have had a real role in the movie (-;)
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Music video
Year
2012
Country
USA
Artist
Skrillex, Sirah (featured artist)
Video director
Tony T. Datis
Video producer
HK Corp
Track Length
3 minutes 41 seconds
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Two Cardis seen very briefly watching the action
Comments
The plot of the official video for this song by the electronic artist Skrillex goes as follows: a gang of children raids an ice cream van and later, as young men, graduate into robbing an armoured car for money. At 23 seconds in for roughly two seconds, you can spot two Cardigans, probably one of each sex, presumably watching the gang going about their early life of crime from a gap in a fence, or possibly a wall. So it's an extremely minor sighting. I'll let you judge the quality of the track itself — and the rest of the video — for yourselves.
Links
Skrillex's official site
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2016
Country
USA
Directed by
Steven Spielberg
Written by
Melissa Mathison, Roald Dahl (original story)
Company credits
Walt Disney Pictures, Amblin Entertainment
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Three Pembrokes belonging to the Queen of Britain
Starring dogs
Unspecified Pems trained by Rowan Harland (not the actual royal Corgis)
Also starring
Mark Rylance (the titular BFG, or the Big Friendly Giant), Ruby Barnhill (Sophie), Penelope Wilton (Queen of Britain, presumably Elizabeth II but not stated to be her explicitly)
Comments
A bit under-the-radar (considering the director) fantasy movie for the whole family about giants, particularly the sole friendly one and his friendship with the plucky orphan Sophie. It would spoil the plot if I were to explain how they end up in Queen's presence, so suffice to say that her Corgis also put in an appearance (and get the short end of a slapstick) in the segment taking place in the presumed Buckingham Palace. You can find a YouTube clip of the scene in 'Links' below if you aren't allegic to spoilers (or want to relive the moment, short as it is).
Links
Warning! Severe spoilers behind the links!
Category
Movies
Year
1961
Country
USA
Directed by
Norman Taurog
Written by
Allan Weiss (story), Hal Kanter
Company credits
Paramount Pictures
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Also starring
Elvis Presley (Chad Gates), Joan Blackman (Maile Duval), Angela Lansbury (Sarah Lee Gates)
Comments
From Internet Movie Database: "There's quite a bit to like about this pleasant if unoriginal musical. Hawaii has never looked better before or since, showcased by beautiful, panoramic shots in this movie". Hey, they forgot to mention the Pembroke! Fortunately, Anita Nordlunde has been in a position to view this film and has come forth with the following information: "Pembroke corgi has a minor part in this movie. Elvis Presley presents his girl friend with a bikini and while she has a swim she looses the top and the gallant little corgi fetches a blouse and swims out to her!"
The image below is possibly taken on the set of the movie. Credit information unavailable.
Alternative titles
I Love My Younger Sister
My Sister, My Love
Secret sweethearts - Kono koi wa himitsu
Category
Tv-series, animated
Year
2005
Country
Japan
Directed by
Mayumi Nishimoto
Written by
Doko Machida based on the original manga by AOKI Kotomi
Art direction
Mokoto Dobashi
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Yori
Also starring
Shotaro Morikubo (Yori Yuuki), Mai Nakahara (Iku Yuuki)
Comments
An anime miniseries or OVA based on AOKI Kotomi's manga by the same name. Deals with the same, controversial subject matter (see the linked entry), although obviously only with a part of the ongoing story.
Yori the Pembroke puts in an appearance although I can't vouch for how large a role he plays in the anime. It may also come as a surprise that although the art is generally rather realistic, Yori is portrayed in a highly stylized kawaii manner and looks quite chibi in comparision to humans.
There is also a live action version of the same story from 2007, but as far as I can tell there is no Corgi in it.
Links
Boku wa imouto ni koi wo suru @ CrunchyRoll
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Episode
Various in season 6
Year
2019
Country
New Zealand
Created by
Tim Balme
Company credits
Prime
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dog
Logan
Starring role
Logan(?)
Also starring
Neill Rea (Mike Shepherd), Fern Sutherland (Kristin Sims), Nic Sampson (Sam Breen), Pana Hema Taylor (Jared Morehu) etc.
Comments
A not very gritty police procedural set in a seemingly quiet (and fictional) country town of Brokenwood where traditionally mismatched Detective Senior Sergeant Shepherd with an unconventional approach to police work and precise and efficient Detective Kristin Sims solve murders that tend to occur in such country towns world over.
The inevitable Corgi shows up on the 6th season of the show, starting with the second episode, and puts in an occasional appearance throughout the following two as well. The fictional Logan belongs to one of the several ex-wives of Shepherd who gets saddled with him by the said ex.
I don't have information as to if Logan has returned for season 7 (or the upcoming-at-the-time-of-writing 8th).
Links
- An article about season 6 and working with Logan @Stuff
- Behind the scense with Logan @Facebook videos
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-show
Original airdate
4th February 2014 onwards
Country
USA
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Cheddar
Starring dogs
Various, see below
Also starring
Andy Samberg (Jake Peralta), Stephanie Beatriz (Rosa Diaz), Andre Braugher (Raymond Holt)
Comments
This critically acclaimed police procedural comedy television series has a reasonably high Corgi content ratio (although not quite high enough to get the coveted "major sighting" status). The series is also known for good performances by the cast and ability to deal serious issues whilst retaining a sense of humor.
Cheddar is the pet Pembroke of Captain Holt, police chief of the titular 99th Precinct. In the series wiki (see links below) he is actually stated to be one of the smartest characters in the show and he typically gets to demonstrate this in the Halloween episodes of the series. The show also has an episode that centers around him to the point of eponymity, so that particular episode (S03 E18) would count as a "major sighting". The presumably complete list of the episodes Cheddar appears in can be found in the aforementioned wiki — along with plot spoilers, so be warned! It is as of yet unknown if Cheddar will be back for the 8th and final season as it has not been televised at this time of writing.
Over the course of the series, Cheddar has been played by several different Pems. The longest stint was served by Stewart who played the role between seasons 4 and 6 until he passed away in the ripe age of 13. His mantle was then taken up by his sister(!) Stella.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Tv-series
Year
2005
Country
United Kingdom, Ireland
Produced by
Dylan Huws, Neville Hughes
Company credits
Cwmni Da, Midas Productions
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
From LocateTV.com: "The first programme [of the series Celtic Monsters] examines stories of demons. Using animation and live-action recreations, Blod Griffiths and Wyn Williams tell the tales of Devil's Bridge and Pwca'r Trwyn from Wales, and the Crom Dubh and Caorthannach from Ireland"
Seen in the Welsh bridge segment we have a starving old Pembroke (played by a not-at-all-starving and not-so-old dog) who gets rather ill used by her owner in a classic ploy to trick the Devil from taking his due. The appearance is pretty brief and unfortunately none of the other episodes of the show feature Corgis.
Note that while this show is (mostly) a documentary about folk beliefs, it touches on things some people in fact still do believe in. I present those people an apology for including this in a fiction database.
Category
Game
Subcategory
Computer game (Apple iOS 7.0 or later)
Game type
Vertical catching/puzzle 2D
Year
2015
Author
Reece Carolan
Country
USA(?)
Company credits
Vectre, LLC (production), Apple (publisher)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
This Apple platform game's objective is similar to that of the hoary old Kick: you must catch Pembrokes falling from the sky (or the top of the screen, if you prefer) while avoid snatching up any cats. Which makes total sense of course. Once you gain some in-game credits you can customize your Pembrokes with different looks.
Links
Game's site @Apple store
Category
Movies
Year
1995
Country
USA(?)
Directed by
John K. Anderson
Written by
John K. Anderson
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
According to a Corgi-L posting, "it's a mockumentary about an evil Nazi plot involving Corgis" (almost certainly Pembrokes, although I've not been able to check this out). This mockumentary was (first?) shown at Atlanta Film Festival.
Category
Game
Subcategory
Computer game (Apple iOS 8.1 or later)
Game type
Side-scrolling 2D
Year
2015 (first version), 2016 (1.2)
Author
Michael Kot
Country
USA(?)
Company credits
Apple (publisher)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Pancakes, Huckleberry and Oliver
Comments
A classic style side-scroller game for Apple platforms. The game's shop site (see below) touts it as "the ultimate Corgi running game". Guide your Pembroke over a series of jetties to collect bones while dodging seagulls.
Links
Game's site @Apple store
Full title
Corgi Quest 7: The Leashes That Bind
Category
Game
Subcategory
Computer game (inside a computer game)
Game type
Text adventure
Year
2017
Author
Jonas Kaerlev, Briar Sovereign
Country
Denmark
Company credits
Humble Bundle
Corgi breed
Unspecified
Starring Role
Alan
Comments
This one's something a little diffent. Corgi Quest 7 is an easter egg style subgame you can play inside another game, A Hat in Time, in itself a platform action-adventure available on various consoles and computers. Unlike the main game, CQ7 is completely text based with limited actions the player selects from menus at each step. Following Alan's exploits to the end confers no benefits for completing the main game but it looks to be funny enough to play (judging by the video below in "Links", which I don't recommend doing if you actually are thinking about playing since it spoils the entire thing).
NB: there are also another game of sorts and a web comic with very similar name (both only lack "7") but they aren't in any way related to this game.
Links
A walk-through of the game @ Youtube
Category
Game
Subcategory
Computer game (Windows Vista & later)
Game type
Side-scrolling action adventure for 1 to 4 players, featuring co-operative and battle modes.
Year
2015 (year of realease)
Country
USA(?)
Company credits
Xander's Corgi Arcade (developer), Steam (publisher)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Maia
Comments
According to game's site (see "Links" below), this game tells how "Maia, the great Corgi Warlock, sets out on a quest to defeat the Evil Bunny King and his army of undead, strange, and pointy-object wielding minions". This suitably cute and wacky-looking (given the subject matter) effort is created by a former PIXAR, Dreamworks, and Sony animator who used his own Pembroke Maia as an inspiration.
Links
Corgi Warlock @ Steam
Category
TV-series, animated
Year
1999
Country
Japan
Directed by
Shinichiro Watanabe
Written by
Akihiko Inari (screenplay) etc.
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Ein
Also starring
Koichi Yamadera (Spike Spiegel), Unsho Ishizuka (Jet Black), Megumi Hayashibara (Faye Valentine), Aoi Tada (Ed)
Comments
Appearing from (filmed) episode 2 on, Ein is 'an illegal data dog' and more intelligent than an average human. Which is only natural, as he's a corgi!
Even without Ein, this would be the best of the (admittetly rather few) anime TV-series I have seen. The 26 episodes provide stylistic, if somewhat parodic, sci-fi action with some depth and lots of humour that manages to be actually funny. Several of the most hilarious moments can be credited to Ein, who is in fact mostly there for comic relief and doesn't actually do anything much to qualify himself as exceptional. Ein is modeled after Cowboy Bebop's character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto's own welsh corgi.
Excerpt from (the expired) EX anime e-zin: "The first broadcast episode begins with Spike Spiegel and Jet Black taking the mercenary ship Bebop to a planet in pursuit of a certain Abdul Hakim, who is wanted for the theft of an experiment sample from a laboratory. Imagine Spike's surprise when the much-coveted lab sample turns out to be a precocious Welsh corgi! Primarily interested in the bounty on Hakim's head, Spike is led on a wild-goose chase (or is that a wild-dog chase?) around town, only to lose Hakim to the police and end up with the corgi instead (much to the dismay of Spike, who does not seem to particularly like the dog). Adopting the crew of the Bebop as his new owners (rather than the other way around), the corgi becomes the mascot of the show".
A feature-lenght anime movie featuring the same characters, Tengoku no tobira (Knockin' On Heaven's Door), also exists.
Both the movie and the series are documented in various art books, see Future Blues website for details on these.
Category
TV-series
Year
2021
Country
USA
Directed by
Alex Garcia Lopez, Michael Katleman
Written by
Hajime Yatate, Christopher L. Yost
Produced by
Michael Katleman
Production company
Netflix
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Ein
Starring dogs
Charlie & Harry
Also starring
John Cho (Spike Spiegel), Mustafa Shakir (Jet Black), Daniella Pineda (Faye Valentine)
Comments
The long-rumored and somewhat apprehensively awaited live action version of Cowboy Bebop anime finally materialized in the form of this Netflix series. Unfortunately, despite a little help from the creators of the original anime and some promising pre-premier teasers and interviews with the showrunner Andr?Nemec, it seems it was "stuck between being a lowish-budget Netflix sci-fi show and an alleged homage to the most stylized anime ever" (to quote from Den of Geek review, see Links below) and was not generally considered very good even by those who weren't ticked off by the perceived woke/SJW casting choices before the show even aired. It failed to interest the audiences as well and the projected second season never materialized.
Regardless of what you think of the casting choices for humans (I was personally a little mystified with them, but not offended), there was one character that was cast correctly: Ein the data dog who was played by two New Zealand Pembrokes. Ein's backstory was apparently tinkered with though, but since I'm yet to see the show I can't really comment on how. If I ever do see it, I promise to write a more in-depth review.
Links
English titles
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (original English marketing title)
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (official US title)
Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (DVD release full title)
Category
Movies, animated
Year
2001
Country
Japan
Directed by
Shinichir?Watanabe, Hiroyuki Okiura (opening scene only)
Written by
Hajime Yatate (story), Keiko Nobumoto
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Ein
Also starring
Kôichi Yamadera (Spike), Unsh?Ishizuka (Jet), Megumi Hayashibara (Faye), Aoi Tada (Ed), Tsutomu Isobe (Vincent), Ai Kobayashi (Electra)
Comments
A full-length anime movie featuring the characters and universe of the anime TV-series Cowboy Bebop, including Ein the genetically engineered super-intelligent pembroke. The movie is in fact not really stand-alone, being more of an extented episode that goes before Brain Scratch in the series. And as in the series itself, Ein is regrettably little more than a comic relief, although he does have several scenes due to the sheer length of the film. Overall, the film isn't on par with the best episodes of the series and doesn't add anything significant to the story, so it's safe to pass on it unless you are a completist.
Links
http://www.cowboybebop.org/
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series, animated
Year
Sunday December 11, 2005 (original airdate of the most likely episode to feature corgis)
Country
United Kingdom
Written by
Nick Park (series creator)
Company Credits
Aardman Studios (production & realization)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Pembrokes seen at the Buckingham Palace
Also starring
Voices of the British public
Comments
A claymation series from the Aardman Studios of the Wallace And Gromit fame, Creature Comforts was created by interviewing numerous different people in Britain on various subjects and then animating different animals to speak their lines. Having watched parts of this show I can recommend it in general for it has several delightful moments, but unfortunately I've missed the most important episode where, according to Karen Bender, there are "claymation Corgis! They had very upper class accents, of course. Unfortunately, one of the puppies lifted it's leg on a work of art, but otherwise they were charming." However, the most likely episode to catch the corgis is Monarchy Business (episode #20, the 2nd season finale). The fact that Corgis probably won't be on in the other episodes (they weren't on in season 1, for examples) relagates this to the "minor sighting" category.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Year
2016
Country
United Kingdom, USA
Written by
Peter Morgan (series creator)
Company Credits
Left Bank Pictures, Sony Pictures Television (production), Netflix (distribution)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dogs
Emma + at least two others
Starring role
Honey, Sugar and Pippin
Also starring
Claire Foy & Olivia Colman (Queen Elizabeth II), Matt Smith & Tobias Menzies (Prince Philip), John Lithgow (Winston Churchill), Gillian Anderson (Margaret Thatcher)
Comments
This lavishly produced and much lauded biopic of Queen Elizabeth II streaming on Netflix unsurprisingly has a few Corgi appearances in it. However, according to Pati Craven, in the first series at least they show up "like 3 times" so this is definitely going in the minor sighting category. The show is currently (December 2020) running its somewhat controversial fourth series (with Princess Diana and so on) and one assumes the Corgis have gotten a little more screen time overall.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series, animated
Episodes
Curious George, Dog Counter (part 1 of season 1, #11) and King Doggie (part 1 of season 2, #18)
Date
Semptember 18, 2006 (Curious George, Dog Counter); February 20, 2008 (King Doggie)
Country
USA
Written by
Margret and H.A. Rey (original books)
Company Credits
PBS
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Also starring
Frank Welker (George, voice of), Willam H. Macy (narrator)
Comments
This is an animated children's show about George, a very curious if not downright nousy African baby ape (probably a chimpanzee), being raised by the somewhat enigmatically (if descriptively) named Man in the Yellow Hat.
Rachel C. Pawson lets on that in the episode (half an episode really, since each episode in fact consists of two shorter adventures) Curious George, Dog Counter "George goes to a dog show and ends up luring the winning dogs home with a sandwich to show them, in their great variety, to the Man With the Yellow Hat. The dogs shown are fairly good depictions of real breeds, including, happily, a Pem (who is the one who finally sneaks in and nabs George's sandwich, making me think those writers were dog-savvy individuals indeed!)". She also recommends the show for having "a lot of underlying gentle lessons about math and science, and [not being] nearly as inane as most kids' shows".
At least some episodes of this show ran in a different order in Finland under the title Utelias Vili in 2009-2010, and while I missed the aforementioned episode I managed to catch a very brief appearance of a Pembroke in a later episode King Doggie where, at around 9 minutes in, it can be seen sitting on a park bench beside its presumable owner and even appears to be reading from his newpaper. It's very brief however and the Pem doesn't really do anything. So, even though the Corgi gets a fair bit of screentime in Curious George, Dog Counter, most of the episodes don't seem to have any sign of Corgis in them — hence the minor sighting status of this show as a whole.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2017
Country
UK, USA
Directed by
Joe Wright
Written by
Anthony McCarten
Company credits
Perfect World Pictures, Working Title Films (production), Focus Features, Universal Pictures (distribution)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
One of the Royal Corgis
Also starring
Gary Oldman (Winston Churchill), Kristin Scott Thomas (Clementine Churchill), Lily James (Elizabeth Layton), Ben Mendelsohn (King George VI)
Comments
This war drama film contains an extremely short Corgi sighting. See my indepth review here.
Links
About the movie @ IMDb
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
1993
Country
USA
Directed by
Ivan Reitman
Written by
Gary Ross
Company credits
Donner/Schuler-Donner Productions, Northern Lights Entertainment, Warner Bros. (producers)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Two Cardis belonging to the First Lady (of USA, that is)
Starring dogs
Brothers Bud and Cody, Trilogy Cardigans from Chuck and Joyce Murray — this has reportedly been verified by Mr. Murray himself. Another source however says the dogs were Bud and his grandsire Banner. Bud, a bona-fide Cardigan movie star also appeared in Accidental Tourist and Dharma & Greg.
Also starring
Kevin Kline (Dave Kovic/Bill Mitchell), Sigourney Weaver (Ellen Mitchell), Frank Langella (Bob Alexander)
Comments
From Internet Movie Database: "Dave spins a clever, funny, and sweetly sentimental tale about a man who is recruited to act as a presidential double only to find himself occupying the oval office when the real president is disabled by a stroke". A sentimental and romantic drama comedy with "liberal, left-wing sentiments" (left-wing in the USA context, of course). Not really my cup of tea, so I only have seen the last 15-20 minutes of it, which I didn't think much of. The Cardis are supposedly on in several scenes; at the very least, they appear at the begining of the movie, according to Linda Hutcheson: "The president gets off his helicopter leading two Cardigan Welsh Corgis".
Category
TV-series
Year
1997
Country
USA
Company credits
20th Century Fox Television, 4 to 6 Foot Productions, Chuck Lorre Productions (producers)
Directed by
Amanda Bearse, Robert Berlinger etc.
Written by
Susan Beavers, Jenna Bruce etc.
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Nunzio
Starring dogs
During the course of the series, Nunzio has been played by at least 3 dogs: in the 1st season by Bud (a real Cardi movie start apparently, also seen in Accidental Tourist and Dave), in 1998 by Aelwyd Tri'N'Stop Me (Butch) and on a later season by a Tricreek Cardigan Twiggy
Also starring
Jenna Elfman (Dharma Freedom Finklestein Montgomery), Thomas Gibson (Gregory Clifford Montgomery)
Comments
Nunzio is actually supposed to be the pet of the other dog, Stinky, in the title characters' family. The series itself is a not very noteworthy sitcom. Plus a frustratingly vaguely documented one, provided you want info on the dogs! The show has been cancelled I believe, so no new episodes are forthcoming, but of course you can probably still catch Nunzio in the inevitable re-runs.
Links
Wikipedia entry for the show
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Year
2007
Country
United Kingdom
Aired on
ITV1
Written by
Caleb Ranson
Directed by
Paul Harrison
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring Dogs
Spencer (Jonloran Bee Gee), Frosty (Jonloran One and Only), Sybil (Jonloran Another Page), Bradly (Jonloran Snooty Fox) and Purdy (Jonloran Dolly Daydream)
Starring Role
various pems of the Queen Of Britain — no surprise there! — shepherded by a nervous footman
Also starring
Sir David Jason (Des), Stephen Wight (Phil), Jenny Agutter (Vanessa)
Comments
The original Diamond Geezer series was aired in March 2005 and introduced the dodgy criminal Des (portrayed by the popular veteran actor Sir David Jason) who, according to A2 Media Group article, "fooled his inmates and prison guards whilst committing the perfect crime". The series was succesfull enough to spawn a limited series of three 90-minute sequels, of which this is the first. The episode details Des's attempt to pull of the biggest heist of his career — the theft of the jewel India Star from Buckingham Palace!
Siri Alnaes sends an almost-inside scoop on the role of the Pembrokes: "The clue is that [Des] hides in a hedge, feet only to be seen and Spencer is to lift his leg and pee at his feet -?he did not do it only once, first one leg, then turned around and lifted the other. They had kept him in the crate for a while and put several treats around David Jason’s legs, so it worked out pretty good. All the time the footman yells at the dogs, saying they will cost him his job unless they come right away." Additional footage of the Corgis frolicking in the park was apparently shot, but you shouldn't expect to see much more than the pee scene in the actual show.
Links
A Royal Affair page on TV.com
Category
TV-series
Year
2016
Country
USA
Company credits
UTMK Limited, Ideate Media etc. (production), BBC Worldwide (distribution)
Directed by
Dean Parisot etc.
Written by
Max Landis (series creator) etc.
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dog
Bentley
Starring role
Rapunzel
Also starring
Samuel Barnett (Dirk Gently), Elijah Wood (Todd Brotzman), Fiona Dourif (Brat Curlish)
Comments
This TV series produced for BBC America is of course based on the late great Douglas Adams' book by the same name and its sequel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. Similary described as a humoristic sci-fi mystery, the show's not a filmatisation of either book though, instead taking place after the first one. This also explains why they had space to include a Corgi and make him an important part of the plot to boot. You should be able to catch Rapunzel in all eight episodes filmed so far.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Year
December 25, 2007 (original airdate of the episode)
Country
United Kingdom
Aired on
BBC2
Written by
Russell T. Davies
Directed by
James Strong
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring Role
Two pembrokes of the Queen Of Britain
Also starring
David Tennant (The Doctor), Kylie Minogue (Astrid Peth), Bernard Cribbins (Wilfred Mott), Jessica Martin (voice of The Queen)
Comments
Doctor Who is the British equivalent of Star Trek in the sense of being a major science fiction franchise running for decades on end. Otherwise, the series don’t have too much in common, apart from both having way too much time travel for comfort. In Doctor Who it is rather the main plot device, in fact. The latest run started in 2005 after a long hiatus and is being produced by BBC Wales and ushered by the writer Russell T. Davies.
The episode Voyage of the Damned was the traditional Christmas special for 2007 and features a massive space ship called the Titanic on a collision course with Earth, more specifically London and most specifically with Buckingham Palace (I kid you not...). Sue R. Sudekum reports on the climatic "scene where the 'Queen Mum' was evacuating Buckingham Palace... and she ran down the stairs (in a pink bathrobe and pink fuzzy slippers), carrying a big red Pemmie with another one running beside her! There was another aerial shot of her running from the building with the Corgis romping around, and barks could be heard, brave Corgi folk, barking at the impending doom of the Planet!"
As usual, the Doctor (who, despite looking like a somewhat eccentric human, is in fact a time-traveling 900-year-old alien) saves the day in the end so you need not worry for the Corgis...
Links
Voyage of the Damned page on TV.com
Category
Movies
Year
2017
Country
USA
Produced by
Gavin Polone
Screenplay by
W. Bruce Cameron, Cathryn Michon, Audrey Wells etc.
Directed by
Lasse Hallström
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring Role
Tino
Also starring
Josh Gad (the voice of Tino), Dennis Quaid (adult Ethan), Peggy Lipton (adult Hannah), Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Maya), Pooch Hall (Al)
Comments
This drama comedy from the generally appreciated director Lasse Hallström has received rather negative reviews. My own slightly more positive than average one can be found here. This is a somewhat marginal "major sighting" since the Corgi is on only for about 10 or so minutes, but being biased I do feel those are the best 10 minutes in the movie, so... Unfortunately I have been unable to find out the names of the dogs that played the part of Tino the Corgi at various stages of his life.
Note that while the movie is based on W. Bruce Cameron's bestselling novel by the same name, the book doesn't feature a Corgi. Also note that while the movie gained some notoriety and calls for boygotting due to allegations of dog abuse during the filming, a third-party investigation eventually cleared the production team of suspicion thereof.
Links
Category
Movies
Year
1991
Country
USA
Directed by
Stephen Herek
Written by
Neil Landau, Tara Ison
Company credits
Warner Brothers (distrubution), Cinema Plus, HBO etc. (production)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Elvis
Starring dog
a black-headed tricolor
Also starring
Christina Applegate (Sue Ellen 'Swell' Crandell), Joanna Cassidy (Rose Lindsey)
Comments
From Internet Movie Database: "Totally unbelievable, but dumb, harmless fun nonetheless..." Apparently a vehicle comedy written for Christina Applegate in the vein of 1980's teen comedy flicks. Not much known about the role of the Cardi, apparently. One person even insisted it's not a Cardi but a Pem instead (which it isn't), so one would assume it's not on in all that many scenes since it's usually rather easy to tell the two apart on closer scrutiny.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
1999
Country
Canada, United Kingdom
Directed by
Philip Spink
Written by
Craig Detweiler, Anne Vince etc.
Company credits
Keystone Pictures
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dog
Ch. Myrtlehill's Guided By Love AM. Can. C.D.
Also starring
Winnie Cooper (Dr. Smythe), James Doohan (Clive Chives)
Comments
From Yvon Savoie: "While not the STAR, don't forget The Duke a cute doggy type movie in which our Susan [...] has a role". Apparently, the story is actually about a Coonhound that becomes a duke. A film for the whole family, with Scotty from Star Trek starring as a bonus.
Category
TV and VOD Movies
Year
2013
Country
USA
Directed by
David DeCoteau
Written by
Sebastian Dinwiddie
Company credits
Rapid Heart Pictures
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Russ
Starring dog
Tess
Also starring
Alison Sieke (Lucy), August Roads (Jake), Chris Petrovski (Jasper), Kristine DeBell (Jennifer) etc.
Comments
The director of this movie, David DeCoteau, is a profic Video-on-Demand movie maker with a diverse portfolio ranging from softcore gay porn to talking-animal movies.
Like a lot of his movies, this one is widely considered terribly bad, is plagued by awful, repetitive elevator music and only somewhat incidentally deals with Easter, but at least there is a lot of Corgi content in it (so we can ignore the whining of the reviewers who complain about the dog on the posters/DVD covers not being in the film — which it isn't so you know). The cute tricolor Pembroke often speaks to (or as it informs us, communicates telepathically with) the viewers and has a couple of funny lines, and it even unearths (literally) a key plot twist. Sadly, what little this could save of the film is marred by the really annoying little kid voice the Corgi speak in...
Anyway, V Movies have uploaded the entire thing on the Youtube and it's supposed to be legally licensed so you can watch it at your own risk.
Links
Category
Movies
Year
2000
Country
France
Directed by
Mathias Ledoux
Written by
Valérie Guignabodet
Company credits
Cinémane Films, Groupe Carrère, M6 Films
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
A Cardi that gets poisoned and dies early in the film
Also starring
Jean-Hugues Anglade (Jean), Clotilde Courau (Michelle), Christine Boisson (Clémence)
Comments
An odd French thriller where — according to Internet Movie Database — "a young couple find themselves left a large town house across the street by the old man who lived there. The only catch is that the current housemaid must be kept on for as long as she wants. However once their in the house not only is the housemaid clearly unhappy about the will but other facts from both Jean and Michelle's past come out". The jury is apparently out on the subject of the arty ending being the saving grace or the killing blow for this particular film. Anyway, Anita Nordlunde reports that "a Cardigan Corgi has a minor role [in the film]. I don't remember what it is about but the dog dies, I believe he is poisened, after the first third of the film". Also worth noting is that there's another French film, albeit a short, from 2000 titled En face (directed by Mehdi Ben Attia and Zina Modiano) that has nothing to do with Corgis.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie, animated
Year
2006
Country
United Kingdom / USA
Written by
Sam Fell, Peter Lord etc.
Directed by
David Bowers and Sam Fell
Company Credits
DreamWorks Animation (production), Aardman Features (production & realization)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A pair of ceramic corgis in the Toad's assortment of Royal collectibles
Also starring
Hugh Jackman (voice of Roddy), Kate Winslet (voice of Rita), Ian McKellen (voice of the Toad), Jean Reno (voice of le Frog)
Comments
Another claymation movie co-produced by Aardman Features (renowned as company that brought us Wallace and Gromit) and DreamWorks Animation (the companies earlier collaborated on Chicken Run), Flushed Away is a children's story (or one for the whole family, if you prefer) about Roddy, a pet rat who gets literally flushed down the toilet and ends up in a London sewer where he has to learn to survive. One of the characters he meets is the Toad who has a room full of Royal collectibles, including two ceramic Corgi statuettes (done in claymation as the rest of the movie, of course).
So it’s a downright miniscule sighting, but I hear the movie is quite good otherwise. Leo A. Notenboom writes: "Fun movie, but watch for the Corgis. I think they even survive the destruction that befalls much of the contents of that room."
Links
Official site
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2006
Country
United Kingdom / USA
Written by
Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow, based on the comic strip by Jim Davis
Directed by
Tim Hill
Company Credits
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (production), Rhythm and Hues (Garfield animation)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A pair of (presumably) the Queen’s corgis
Also starring
Breckin Meyer (Jon Arbuckle), Jennifer Love Hewitt (Liz), Billy Connolly (Lord Dargis), Bill Murray (voice of Garfield)
Comments
Garfield has managed to devolve over the years from a reasonably funny dailies comic strip into something that is actually better without the titular fat cat character (see Links below...). This has not stopped the enterprising producers from making two Garfield movies (that I know of). While I’ve not heard a lot of good things about either the first or this the second installment, at least this one does have a brief shot of Corgis. Writes Joleen Miller: "[T]wo Pembrokes can be seen leaving Buckingham Palace in a carriage". The main plot is about Garfield and his canine sidekick Odie following their owner, Jon Arbuckle, to England where Garfield is mistaken for a look-alike regal cat who has inherited a castle that the villainous Lord Dargis wants to turn into a resort. Much hilarity ensues, I'm certain.
Links
Category
Movie (short)
Year
2012
Country
UK
Directed by
Danny Boyle
Company Credits
BBC Drama Production
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Two Pembrokes of Queen Elisabeth II
Starring dogs
Two Pembrokes of Queen Elisabeth II
Also starring
Queen Elisabeth II (as herself), Daniel Craig (James Bond)
Comments
The best bit of the 2012 Olympics is this opening short film where James Bond arrives to take the Queen of Britain to the opening ceremonies. Two of The Queen's Pembrokes have a reasonably prominent role (large enough considering the entire length of the piece to merit a "major sighting" status) and their antics even make Bond smile a little at one point! You can watch the entire thing (it's clearly less than 10 minutes long and well worth the time) through the Youtube link below.
Links
- More on the background of the film on BBC
- The entire film on Youtube
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Tv-series
Year
1996 (probable original air year of the episode)
Country
USA
Produced by
Melanie Switzer-Reilly, Ronnie Krokdal, Steven D. Smith
Company credits
Greystone Communications (production), History Channel (distribution)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Also starring
Bill Leaman (Captain John Oldham)
Comments
From Allmovie.com: "[Haunted History] from the History Channel takes the viewer to see firsthand the locations throughout the world where the undead are said to still roam". The specific episode, Haunted Ships, deals with obvious subject matter as well as provides at least a brief Corgi sighting.
Writes Patricia L. Olson: "The tail end of the show had what looked like an old sea dog of a captain on it and his dog. [...] It was a male Pembroke that was red and white and a bit on the large bone side. The captain said some closing words, then pick up his Corgi buddy, snuggled him some and
with a few more words, turned and walked done a wooden dock towards the sea. With their backs to the camera, the two faded out of sight as if they were ghosts themselves. The captain still carrying his Pemmie boy."
Note that while this is touted as documentary series, my personal incredulity says the subject matter makes it more about fiction than fact. Hence the inclusion here, with an apology to those who might be offended.
Links
Haunted San Diego Blog has a rundown of the episode content
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Year
1970 (original airing year of the episode with the corgi)
Country
USA
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Also starring
Jack Lord (detective Steve McGarrett), James MacArthur (detective Danny Williams)
Comments
Hawaii Five-o, created by Leonard Freeman, was for quite a while the longest running police drama ("cop show") in the US television history, scoring an astounding 13 seasons on CBS-TV from 1968-1980. People outside of USA probably remember the series' name primarily due to the often covered main theme composed by Morton Stevens though. Be that as it may, when a show runs for as long as Hawaii Five-o did, it would be a small wonder if there wasn't a Corgi in it somewhere. And lo and behold, there is: more precisely, a Pem makes a brief appearance in the episode "Three Dead Cows at Makapuu: Part 2" (episode #2.24), originally aired on 4 March 1970.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
1993
Country
USA
Directed by
Kenny Ortega
Written by
David Kirschner (story), Mick Garris etc.
Company credits
Walt Disney Pictures (production)
Corgi breed
Mix
Also starring
Bette Midler (Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson), Sarah Jessica Parker (Sarah Sanderson), Kathy Najimy (Mary Sanderson)
Comments
From Internet Movie Database: "More than 300 years ago, 3 witches were sentenced to die in Salem, Massachusetts and a boy was turned into a cat". A Halloween horror comedy for the whole family, apparently. Haven't seen this one, but since everybody on the IMDb is just going on about the said cat, I'm assuming the Corgi mix here would be a bit player...
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
1991
Country
USA
Directed by
Jim Abrahams
Written by
Jim Abrahams & Pat Proft
Company credits
20th Century Fox
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
A Cardigan briefly seen chasing a jet fighter
Also starring
Charlie Sheen (Lt. Topper Harley), Cary Elwes (Lt. Kent Gregory), Valeria Golino (Ramada Thompson), Lloyd Bridges (Adm. Thomas 'Tug' Benson)
Comments
From Internet Movie Database: "Topper Harley, a top gun fighter pilot, is recalled to serve on the SS Essess. Topper's mission is to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear plants. Unfortunately, Topper is psychologically imbalanced and is sure to crack under pressure". Although the movie has some entertaining gags, with the war in Iraq stretching on (at the time of writing) the subject matter is perhaps not the most tasteful, and is getting a bit out of date as well. Politics aside, this movie most definitely has a Corgi in it: like Duncan Stone says, there is "a scene where the jet squadron was taking off from [the] aircraft carrier and one of the planes was chased by a Corgi". A Cardigan sighting for those who love those blink-and-you-miss-it movie moments.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Year
Friday April 7, 2006 (original air date of the episode with corgis)
Country
United Kingdom
Directed by
Bharat Nalluri, Minkie Spiro etc.
Written by
Tony Jordan etc.
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Two pembrokes seen at the gravesite at the end of the show
Also starring
Adrian Lester (Mickey Bricks Stone), Jaime Murray (Stacie Monroe), Robert Glenister (Ash Morgan), Marc Warren (Danny Blue), Robert Vaughn (Albert Stroller)
Comments
According to TV.com, "Hustle follows the fortunes of a gang of five expert con artists let loose on the streets of London. They are specialists in the way of the grifter and all are keen to liberate cash from the amoral and undeserving." In the episode 5 of season 3, the antiheroes of the series concoct their most ambitious con yet. Ida Duplechin reports that the premise of it is that "Queen Mother Elizabeth had actually died in 1941 and an imposter had been recruited to play the part all of these years." Ante is upped midgame — as is usual for the show — when "through the twists and [turns] of the con as played out on a rather nasty tabloid editor, the Royal Security do get involved because they don't like the editor either." Finally, "the editor is exposed as a liar; the other tabloid gets the story of him being a liar and the con artists collect money all the way around. HOWEVER, the last scene is set in a graveyard at the site of the woman who had supposedly been the imposter and UNMISTAKABLY there was the impeccably dressed back of a woman in a sensible tweed coat with sensible shoes and 2 beautiful Pems on leashes visiting the grave." So, was it a just a con after all? This is left for the viewer to decide.
The Database Keeper’s Note: I just recently had the chance to watch this episode on Finnish television and somewhat to my surprise it didn’t include the aforementioned final scene with the Corgis. If it was described as something of a "blink-and-you-miss-it", I’d accept the possibility I did (blink, that is), but I don’t think I could’ve missed an entire scene (especially one I was rather looking forward to). Also, as the plot was otherwise extremely close to the described, there's really not too much of a chance of the one I watched being a different episode. Presumably there could be two (or even more) different cuts of it though (possibly a longer one on DVD or something of that sort), so I’m not ditching this entry quite yet (there is also in fact a mention made of the Corgis — in all of a single sentence — but they don’t make an appearance). Further confirmations would be appreciated.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2005
Country
USA
Directed by
Curtis Hanson
Written by
Jennifer Weiner (novel), Susannah Grant (screenplay)
Company credits
In Her Shoes c/o The Lot, Scott Free Productions, Deuce Three Productions, Fox 2000 Pictures (production)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dog
Abby
Starring role
A pembroke seen in two dog walking scenes
Also starring
Cameron Diaz (Maggie Feller), Toni Collette (Rose Feller), Shirley MacLaine (Ella Hirsch)
Comments
This drama contains a brief scene featuring a Corgi, who happens to be Celeste and Jim Fleming's pembroke Abby. Celeste writes: "our 12 year old daughter used to be a member of a 4-H dog club. Her leader has been breeding dogs for years (currently Irish Setters) and [is] very involved in the 'dog world'. She knew the owner of Animal Actors and he contacted her looking for dogs for this film. He met Abby and some other dogs from the group, liked them, and the rest is history! We live in NJ, and the dog walking scenes are all filmed in Philadelphia, so that's why he was looking locally for the dogs".
Having recently had the chance to see this movie on Finnish television, I deem it adequately competent work (judged against what little I know of the genre). Even Cameron Diaz gets a chance to actually act, in addition to providing eye candy, and doesn't appear to be doing too badly either. Abby is on in two scenes, or rather one scene and a brief insert, for about 15 seconds of total screen time, so it's not a movie big on Corgi content. We do get a nice shot of her face tho.
For an independend review of this title, check out what Ann Stephani has to say
Category
TV-series, animated
Year
2016 (original pilot), 2019 (season one)
Country
USA
Directed by
Nick Cross: art, Randy Myers: animation (pilot)
Written by
Owen Dennis (pilot + several episodes) et al.
Company credits
Cartoon Network Studios
Corgi breed
Cardigan and Pembroke, maybe also mix(es) thereof
Starring role
King Atticus (and several of his Corgi subjects)
Also starring
Ernie Hudson (voice of Atticus), Ashley Johnson (voice of Tulip), Lena Headey (voice of Amelia) etc.
Comments
Tulip, a sensible and bookish girl and an aspiring computer game programmer finds herself caught on a paradoxial train of possibly infinite number of cars with unpredictable contents and internal dimensions: some of the cars encompass vast landscapes (they are bigger on the inside...), such as the entire kingdom of Corginia. After Tulip helps the ruler thereof, Atticus ("uniter of the Cardigans and the Pembrokes"), to solve a threatening problem, the Corgi (who is possibly a Cardi/Pem mix) accompanies her on her quest to find a way off the train and back home.
The original pilot of the series was first released on the Cartoon Network App and VOD on November 1, 2016 and after it garnered massive amount of views and generally positive reviews it was announced that it would become a miniseries (10 episodes of 13 minutes each). Before airing the last episode of the series, the network announced there would a second season as well.
King Atticus was an important side character in the pilot episode, which got reworked into episode #3 of series, The Corgi Car. Originally, Atticus was simply supposed to help Tulip get to the next car, but in the altered plot he becomes her companion and appears (in some shape or form) in all of the remaining episodes, thus making the series a clear "full" sighting. It is as of yet unclear if Atticus will return for season two, which will probably air in 2020.
Links
- Infinity Train review @ Nerdist
- Youtube videos:
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Year
2003
Country
Finland
Directed by
Aku Louhimies
Written by
Paavo Westerberg, Mikko Kouki
Company credits
Nelonen
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
The Pembroke of the taxi driver's mother
Also starring
Susanna Mikkonen (Hanna), Janne Virtanen (Veli-Matti), Samuli Edelmann (Eero), Vera Kiiskinen (Emmi)
Comments
A Finnish drama series originally shown on the Nelonen channel between September 29 and December 15, 2003 has some minor corgi content: the taxi driver Veli-Matti's mother has "an adorable Pembroke".
Och samma p?Finska:
Kotimaisessa draama/komediasarjassa Irtiottaja voi Corgisti-foorumilta löytyvän postituksen mukaan bongata taksikuski Veli-Matin äidin "ihkun pemun". Itseltäni sarja on valitettavasti jäänyt näkemättä, eikä sitä ilmeisesti lähiaikoina olla uusimassa, mutten usko Pembroken olevan kovin keskeisessä roolissa... Sarja on tosin julkaistu myös DVD:llä, joten saatan yrittää jossain vaiheessa löytää ja sen tarkistaa asian.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2003
Country
United Kingdom
Directed by
Peter Howitt
Written by
Neal Purvis, Robert Wade & William Davies
Company credits
Rogue Male Films Ltd., Working Title Films (production)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A Pembroke belonging to the Queen of Britain
Also starring
Rowan Atkinson (Johnny English), Tasha de Vasconcelos (Countess Alexandra), John Malkovich (Pascal Sauvage) etc.
Comments
Another James Bond spoof, this time starring Rowan Atkinson as the titular secret agent who must save Britain after all the other agents are killed in a bombing. It probably comes as no surprise that English is quite inept at this task and the criminals run rings around him for the best part of the movie. One of the bad guy Pascal Sauvage's goons even gets to the Queen and in a quite crucial scene threatens to shoot one of her beloved Pembrokes. Says Laura Weiner, "[the Corgi] looked to be a young one, as he could hold it tucked under one arm". Overall, a mildly entertaining effort, even if the Corgi content is low (the sequel, Johnny English Reborn from 2011 is IMCO a better movie, but alas there is no Corgis in it).
Category
Movies, animated
Year
2016
Country
France
Directed and realized by
Coralie Soudet, Charlotte Piog? Marie El Kadiri, Marion Duvert & Agathe Marmion
Music by
Jean-Baptiste Porquet
Company credits
MoPA school of 3D animation
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A Corgi belonging to the Queen of Britain
Comments
This short and quite entertaining animation was produced by the team listed above as their graduation movie from MoPA. It's less than ten minutes long and received a number of awards too so go and watch it yourself (see "Links" below)!
Jubilee is sometimes considered to have some ties to The Queen's Corgi from 2019 but apart from both touching on the same subject matter there doesn't appear to be any connection.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
1991
Country
USA
Directed by
David S. Ward
Written by
Emlyn Williams (novel), David S. Ward (screenplay)
Company credits
JBRO, Mirage, Universal Pictures (production)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Also starring
John Goodman (Ralph), Peter O'Toole (Willingham), John Hurt (Graves)
Comments
A much-maligned (deservedly IMHO) "fish-out-of-water" comedy featuring such endearing things as the Finnish royal family, among other silly but not very funny stuff. From a Corgi-L posting: "the movie King Ralph has a quick shot of Corgis". No surprise there, since this "John Goodman & al. waste their talents" film deals with a scenario where "an accident obliterates the British royal family and most of its branches [and] a desperate geneological search discovers the next king: Ralph, a sleazy American lounge singer" [Internet Movie Database]. Having now watched this twice (oh the madness!), paying special attention to catching Corgis the second time around, I can now vouch for Jean Gordon's report on them: "There is one scene where [Ralph is] on the lawn of one of the castles, surrounded by at least 6 Pems. He throws a frisbee and some of them watch it and some ignore it but none chase it! Just a vignette, but still a thrill!" The scene is about 5 seconds long at about 41 or so minutes in, and indeed it's among the funniest moments of the entire yarn. Which is not saying a lot in this case.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2010
Directed by
Tom Hooper
Written by
David Seidler
Company credits
Bedlam Productions
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dogs
Ella, Carina and Laila
Starring role
Various pembrokes of the Queen of Britain
Also starring
Colin Firth (King George VI), Geoffrey Rush (Lionel Logue), Helena Bonham Carter (Queen Elizabeth)
Comments
This historical drama about "King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it" (to quote from Internet Movie Database) harvested — as predicted by many — like a pirate at Oscars in 2011, taking the best movie, the best direction, the best screenplay and the best leading actor. No mentions went to the almost equally predictable (given the subject matter, obviously) appearances of Pembrokes however, so it falls to CSDb to correct this oversight.
Karen Segboer informs us that the Corgis make an appearance at the very start and and also at the end: when the King is walking to the microphone through the crowd, one of them even barks as he passes.
Meanwhile, Anita Nordlunde has been informed by the former secretary of the Welsh Corgi League Diana King that the "Corgis belong to Maria Carter who mainly does obedience with her Corgis. She lives in Cheltenham, England and her affix is is 'De Cesare'". As of Summer 2011, her site also contains Ms. Carter's article originally published in Welsh Corgi League's newletter Our Corgi World on the starring dogs and the filming, see links below.
Links
Official site of the movie
Colin, the King and I - Maria Carter writes about the filming of The King's Speech
English title
The Moonlight Sonata
Category
Movies
Year
1988
Country
Finland
Directed by
Olli Soinio
Written by
Olli Soinio
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Eppa
Also starring
Tiina Björkman (Anni Stark), Kari Sorvali (Arvo Kyyrölä), Mikko Kivinen (Sulo Kyyrölä) etc.
Comments
A rarity here, a Finnish "horror movie" from the 1980's.
Here's a plot summary from IMDb: "A female fashion model [...] takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lappland [...] for a vacation. Little does she know that there's a totally lunatic bunch of local hillbillies living in a nearby farmhouse. The plot thickens as one of the residents begins to harass Anni, who is left alone in the wilderness with only her dog to protect her. Too bad for her that her dog turns out to have divided loyalties..."
I finally managed to catch this on tv, almost 20 years after it came out and it's pretty obvious that they didn't go to Lappland. Otherwise, the above summary is about right. The movie itself is, well, not very good. I think the film might have worked better if the production team had made up their mind as to if they wanted an actually scary movie or a Finnish version of The League of Gentlemen. The Pembroke Eppa does get a fair amount of screen time though so the film is worth watching for Corgi sighting enthusiasts.
Och samma p?Finska:
Olli Soinion ns. kauhuelokuva kultaiselta 1980-luvulta. Onnistuin lopulta näkemään tämän lähes 20 vuotta elokuvan valmistumisen jälkeen YLE 1:ltä 8.12.2006.
Pari sanaa juonesta. Burnoutintapaisesta kärsivä malli Anni Stark viedään pakkolomalle "maakuntiin" ja jätetään hiihtomajalle seuranaan vain Eppa-pembrokensa. Epätavallisen pahasti maalaisjuntahtavan Kyyrölän perheen enemmän homo sapiensia muistuttava poika Arvo iskee silmänsä maailmannaiseen. Samaan aikaan myös hänen jättimäinen, jälkeenjäänyt ja tavallisesti maakellarissa lukkojen takana pidettävä veljensä Sulo on päässyt vapaaksi...
Niin. Eihän se nyt ollut, tuota, kovin kummoinen elokuvana saati kauhusellaisena. Mielestäni tekijöiden olisi kannattanut joko yrittää oikeasti pelotella (vaikeaa vaikka se onkin) tai sitten vetää kunnolla alta lipan Herrasmiesliigan tyyliin. Sympaattista joskin hiukan rumaa Eppa-pemua näytettiin kuitenkin ihan mukavasti läpi koko leffan, joten siinä suhteessa päästiin voiton puolelle.
Links
About the movie (in Finnish) @Wikipedia
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Original airdate
December 11, 2006
Country
Finland
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A pem walked by an old lady
Also starring
Turkka Mastomäki (Jussi Venäläinen), Maria Kuusiluoma (Kaisa Hämäläinen), Daniel Dewald (Traian Suput), Leena Pöysti (Pirjo Räsänen)
Comments
In episode #80 of this comedic soap opera, an old lady witnessing the row between two main characters is walking a Pembroke.
Och samma på Finska:
Komediallisen saippuasarjan jaksossa #80 piipahtaa Pembroke: Peten ja Helinän selvitellessä välejään Helinän kotipihalla Vihdissä tapausta töllistevällä naapurin(?) mummolla on remmissä sellainen. Jakso esitettiin 11.9.2006.
Full title
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Episode
Season 4, Episode 3: Dancing Queen
Original airdate
November 5, 2018
Country
USA
Company credits
Berlanti Productions, DC Entertainment, Bonanza Productions, Warner Bros. Television
Produced by
Chris Fedak, Sarah Schechter, Greg Berlanti etc.
Directed by
Kristin Windell
Written by
James Eagan & Morgan Faust
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
The Pembrokes of the Queen of Britain, especially Sparky
Starring dogs
Sparky is played (at least some of the time) by Farah, sister to Bentley from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Also starring
Comments
Legends of Tomorrow is a television show about time traveling superheroes (with one or both parts of the word sometimes questionable) and one of the several interconnected TV-series set in the so-called Arrowverse (which also serves as the name of the media franchise they were produced as parts of), a multiverse (often loosely) based on a number DC Comics superhero characters (with the DC comics "trinity" of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman notably absent from the roster) and their histories, locations etc. created mainly by producer Greg Berlanti. Its ties to any continuum created in the comics are even more tenuous than with most other shows as there is no precedent for the existence of this team in DC comics.
Arrowverse shows tend to be characterized by occasionally hammy acting, somewhat incongruous and silly plots (which has lead me and the significant other to enacting a "don't even ask" policy when watching any of them) and taking themselves a little too seriously for their general quality. This was remedied in Legends of Tomorrow at around Season 3 as it took a turn for more humorous (without going full-on into comedy), serving time travel action with a side order of meta-humor and social commentary.
The episode at hand, Dancing Queen, is a good example of this more humorous tone. Duffy Thomas-Dale has the scoop: "[superhero Atom AKA] Ray Palmer has to kidnap one of the Queen’s corgis [to prove to some punk rockers he too is 'punk' — which he isn't]. Hijinks ensue. And Ray gets a tattoo of a Corgi with a mohawk."
The Corgis (or even Ray's tattoo — maybe he had it removed off screen in their timeship's medbay?) don't make a reappearance outside of this single season and don't have that much screen time even here, this is definitely a minor sighting. Otherwise, I tend to agree with critics that once you get past the initial two or so seasons, the show is definitely worth watching for some lighthearted fun. If you aren't allergic to occasional plot holes and/or superheroes and/or time travel scifi, obviously.
Links
About the show @ Arrowverse wiki
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Episodes
Outbreak (season 1, #2) and Bound & Buried (season 1, #7)
Original airdate
April 28, 2009 (Outbreak); June 2009 (Bound & Buried)
Country
USA
Company credits
History Channel (distribution)
Produced by
Louis C. Tarantino, Douglas J. Cohen and Jeremy Chilvers
Directed by
James Grant Goldin
Written by
Louis C. Tarantino, Douglas J. Cohen and Jim Hense
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
The Pembrokes of the Queen of Britain
Comments
A "fictional science" documentary (as opposed to a no-bones-about-it science fiction show) about a (somewhat unlikely) scenario that all of humanity would just up and disappear one day. Among others, the Queen's Corgis would be forced deal with having been abandoned — while still inside Buckingham Palace, no less.
George Fordham writes that Outbreak, the second episode of Life After People, "showed some really cute Corgis, playing the part of the Queen's own. You can guess where they found water. They scavenged around the kitchens for a few months before having to find their way outside to try and make it on their own."
When the 1st season of this show ran in Finland in the spring of 2010, I was able to ascertain that the Pems have quite a bit of screen time in Outbreak. A biologist interviewed for the episode was of a mind that despite their appearance, Corgis are actually quite survivable, being intelligent and having good stamina and strong digestion (big "surprise", this last). Meanwhile, a very short clip of Corgis fussing at a door, (apparently footage that was used in Outbreak recycled) in Bound & Buried is accompanied by another biologist contrariwise stating that dogs in general would have hard time even getting out of the houses they are left in... That's science for you!
Since those two episodes appear to be the only ones where Corgis are shown, and they aren't otherwise mentioned explicitly in the other, this sighting retains its "minor" status.
Category
TV and VOD Movies
Year
1963
Country
USA
Company credits
Perkins Films, Walt Disney Television (producers)
Directed by
Walter Perkins
Written by
Catherine Turney etc.
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Candy
Starring dog
Ch. Bundock's Rover Run Concerto, UD
Also starring
Winston Hibler (Narrator), Hollis Black, Margaret Gerrity, Grace Bauer, Priscilla Overton, Dennis Yanglin, Norman Williams
Comments
From Internet Movie Database: "The story of Candy, a little Welsh Corgi, who's raised by his family from a little puppy. But when he's grown up, he gets lost, has adventures, and learns to herd cattle before he's reunited with his family...only that's not where he wants to be". Generally considered to be The Ultimate (Pembroke) Welsh Corgi Movie (I presume due to the screen time received by the Pem...). Unfortunately, it's a bit hard to get in any format (let alone on DVD), it being a Disney telemovie and all...
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Tv-series
Episode title
Recipe For Disaster (season 3, episode #16)
Original air date
Monday February 23, 2009
Country
Canada
Directed by
Brian K. Roberts
Written by
Claire Ross Dunn
Company credits
CBC Canada
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Also starring
Zaib Shaikh (Amaar Rashid), Carlo Rota (Yasir Hamoudi), Sheila McCarthy (Sarah Hamoudi), Neil Crone (Fred Tupper) etc.
Comments
Accoding to TV.com (see links below), Little Mosque on the Prairie is "a sitcom that focuses on the comedic outlook of a small Muslim community interacting with the citizens of a little prairie town named Mercy".
According to Tennille Whiteford, there is at least one episode of this show where a red and white pembroke is seen "at 18:52 and again at
19:32". Sounds like it doesn't have a significant role...
The show has been off and on in Finland for some time but I haven't managed to catch this episode yet so can't comment further on it, nor yet on the general quality of the show as the subject matter is of extremely limited interest to me. However it should be possible to view this episode (if you are Canadian anyway) and check for yourself on CBC site.
Links
Episode info @ TV.com
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Music video
Year
2006
Country
United Kingdom
Artist
Lady Sovereign
Track Length
2 minutes 42 seconds
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A Pem belonging to a snotty high class woman, frightened by the ghost of a pet rat(!)
Comments
This "tetris-themed video" for a "song" of the British rapper Lady Sovereign features a Pembroke, presumably for that classy touch they lend to the upper class Brits. The Corgi also gets a mention in the lyrics. It's a brief but fairly funny sighting, which you can attest to on YouTube.
No, I'm not a particular fan of rap... Funny you should ask (-;)
English title
Midday Moon
Category
TV-series
Year
1997
Country
Japan
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Hanzo
Also starring
Tokiwa Takako (Mae), Oda Yuji (Naoki)
Comments
This drama about a rape victim and her almost equally traumatized lover features a cute little Pembroke puppy Hanzo.
Links
http://www.tbs.co.jp/eng/catalog/english/drama/107.html
Finnish title
Ritari Mikke
Category
TV-series
Year
2011
Country
Canada, United Kingdom
Written by
Alexander Bar (creator), Marc Seal
Company credits
Nelvana, HiT Entertainment (production)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Yip and Yap
Comments
Quoting from Wikipedia (see links below), this CGI animated series for the children "is about Mike whose father, the King, is a knight who is away exploring other lands. Looking up to his father, Mike wants to be a knight too. However, he is still a knight-in-training".
Mike's mother, Queen Martha, sports the traditional queenly entourage of Pembrokes. Having cursorily watched a couple of episodes, it looks like the said Corgis are on fairly often (and generally end up in trouble, albeit not necessarily of their own making) so I've granted this a "major sighting" status.
Links
Mike the Knight on Wikipedia
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie, animated
Year
2015
Country
USA
Directed by
Pierre Coffin & Kyle Balda
Written by
Brian Lynch
Company credits
Illumination Entertainment (production), Universal Pictures (distribution)
Starring role
Several Corgis of the Queen of Britain
Also starring
Sandra Bullock, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Jennifer Saunders etc.
Comments
This is an animated comedy movie spin-off/prequel to the Despicable Me franchise films. As the title implies, it's about Minions (those small yellow beings who exist only to serve history's most despicable villains) and their history from the dawn of time up to how they threw in their lot with Gru. In between, they also (ineptly) assist in a coup to take over Britain and inevitably end up meeting with the Queen's Pembrokes in the process.
The Corgis aren't on a whole lot but they do have some very hilarious scenes, including one involving a match of Corgi polo in the Buckingham Palace (see "Links" below). The movie is funnier that I expected otherwise too and well worth a watch. Quite a few other people apparently agree since (according to Wikipedia) it is the thirteenth highest-grossing film of all time, the second highest-grossing animated film and the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film.
Links
English title
Magic Kitchen
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2004
Country
China (Honk Kong)
Directed by
Lee Chi-Ngai
Produced by
Lee Chi-Ngai, John Chong
Written by
Lee Chi-Ngai (based on the novel by Lam Wing-Sum)
Corgi breed
Unknown, probably a pembroke
Starring role
The corgi is the main character's pet
Also starring
Sammi Cheng Sau-Man (Yau Murong), Jerry Yan (Ho), Andy Lau Tak-Wah (Chun Yao)
Comments
A romantic drama from Hong Kong featuring a Corgi, most likely a Pembroke. According to Frank McDonough, the Corgi has two scenes of doing "what Corgis do best - in one he's eating, and in the other he's ...umm... 'taking care of business'". It doesn't actually sound like the Corgi's on a lot so I've given this a (tentative) minor sighting status.
The movie was awarded for a Golden Horse for the best adapted screenplay. A thorough review (with some spoilers) can be found at the link below.
Links
Review @ LoveKHFilm.com
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2015
Country
USA
Directed by
David Koepp
Produced by
Andrew Lazar, Johnny Depp etc.
Written by
Eric Aronson
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Poppet
Also starring
Johnny Depp (Mortdecai), Gwyneth Paltrow (Johanna), Paul Bettany (Jock), Ewan McGregor (Martland)
Comments
There is a very minor Corgi sighting in this much (and in my opinion deservedly) maligned action comedy film. Poppet the Pembroke is extremely briefly seen and is spoken to by Ms. Paltrow's character about 12 minutes in. The Corgi is on screen for about 3 seconds so it's one of those "blink-and-you-miss-it" things. The rest of the movie completely lacks any further sightings so I can only recommend you read the reviews below before commiting to watching it — the first one even mentions the Corgi! Although I don't think it was a puppy but whatever.
Links
Category
TV and VOD Movies
Year
1998
Country
USA
Directed by
Simon Wincer
Written by
Rita Mae Brown (novel), Jim Cox (II) etc.
Company credits
Ancient Mariner Films, Walt Disney Television (production), C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures (fx)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tucker
Also starring
Ricki Lake (Mary Minor 'Harry' Haristeen), Blythe Danner (Mrs. Murphy's voice), Anthony Clark (Tucker's voice)
Comments
From Internet Movie Database: "The animals really steal this story, and they are pretty amazing. The Corgi has many scenes, and does them with great style [...] This is a great film for kids, but adults may find their attention lagging". Apparently, Ricki Lake is OK too... This telemovie is one of the few where a Corgi is literally a star, even if just a co-star. Mostly based on Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series novel Rest In Pieces, the story is about a cat solving a murder with the help of her Pembroke sidekick. The telemovie has a male Tucker, while in the book(s) the character is female.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-show
Original airdate
April 30, 2007
Country
Finland
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A pem walked by a somewhat foppish, handsome man
Also starring
Lapinlahden linnut
Comments
In the one-off comedic TV-special by a popular Finnish comedy group Lapinlahden linnut, a pembroke is very briefly seen in the so-called "gay sketch".
Och samma p?Finska:
Lapinlahden lintujen vappuna 2007 esitetty tv-spesiaali Muuttuuko ihminen antaa vajaat viisi sekuntia kuvaruutuaikaa pembrokelle. Koira näkyy ns. "homosketsissä", jossa sitä kävelyttää mahdollisesti hieman homomaiseksikin luonnehdittava mieshenkilö.
Links
http://www.lapinlahdenlinnut.fi/
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Year
Monday May 28, 2001 (original air date of the episode with corgis)
Country
United Kingdom
Directed by
John Stroud
Written by
Paul Mendelson (series creator), Paul Mayhew-Archer, etc.
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Three of the Queen's pembrokes stolen by Arnie, a superhero gone bad
Also Starring
Ardal O'Hanlon (George Sunday/Thermoman), Emily Joyce (Janet Dawkins), Lou Hirsch (Arnie)
Comments
From Internet movie database: "On the surface George Sunday (Ardal O'Hanlon) appears to be a mild-mannered Irishman [...] but in reality, he is Thermoman, an leotard-wearing superhero who hails from the planet Ultron. When he rescues nurse Janet Dawkins (Emily Joyce) [...] the pair fall in love. The comedy of the series is mainly based on George's attempts to come to grips with everyday life and combining a dual career as a superhero and a slightly odd earthling." The Britcom My Hero (1st season in 2000) sounds a lot like The Tick crossed with Third Rock from the Sun, but apparently had something going for it as ran for six seasons until 2006. At the very least, there were a couple of corgis in, specifically in the second season episode Car, according to Susan Bemus "Arnie talks George into restoring his super powers but then proceeds to mis-use his powers by stealing the Crown Jewels, several works of art, and... 3 of the Queen's corgis! I howled when George was uncovering all of Arnie's ill-gotten loot, and the Pems came trotting in a line out of the bedroom. They were obviously not the _real_ Royal corgis, though; they were clearly well-trained and friendly. ;-)"
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2007
Country
USA
Written by
(Marianne and Cormac) Wibberley (screenplay & story), Gregory Poirier (story) etc.
Directed by
Jon Turteltaub
Company Credits
Walt Disney Pictures (presents), Jerry Bruckheimer Films (production) etc.
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
One of (presumably) the Queen's pembrokes seen in a picture at Buckingham Palace
Also starring
Nicolas Cage (Ben Gates), Justin Bartha (Riley Poole), Diane Kruger (Abigail Chase), Jon Voight (Patrick Gates), Helen Mirren (Emily Appleton)
Comments
Fairly obviously, this is a sequel to National Treasure (2004). In this one (according to the Internet Movie Database) the treasure hunter (think modernized Indiana Jones) Ben Gates' "great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in Abraham Lincolns death. Determined to prove his ancestors innocence, Ben follows an international chain of clues that takes him on a chase from Paris to London and ultimately back to America."
Apparently a bit of lukewarm warm-up of a bit lukewarm original, but what can you expect from a family-friendly Di$ney actioner, really? Anyway, there is a very miniscule Corgi sighting available. Dillon Pyron reports that in the scene where the characters "break into Buckingham Palace to get to the Resolute Desk, there's a picture of a R&W Pem on the desk".
Links
Official site
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Episodes
Meat Puzzle (season 2, #13) and Broken Bird (season 6, #13)
Year
08.02.2005 (Meat Puzzle); 13.01.2009 (Broken Bird)
Country
USA
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Several corgis belonging to Mrs. Mallard, the mother of one of the principal characters.
Starring dogs
Bill Gotthelf has forwarded a theory that the dogs appearing on NCIS are actually the Pembrokes of David McCallum (see "Also Starring" below), named Bill, Tessie, Zack, Brandy and Bailey; this remains unconfirmed
Also starring
Mark Harmon (Leroy Jethro Gibbs), Michael Weatherly (Anthony DiNozzo), Pauley Perrette (Abby Sciuto), Sean Murray (Timothy McGee), Sasha Alexander (Kate Todd), David McCallum (Donald "Ducky" Mallard)
Comments
Among the rash of crime (scene) investigation series to come out in the middle of the first decate of the 3rd millennium is NCIS. According to the production company CBS's site, NCIS "(Naval Criminal Investigative Service) is more than just an action drama. With liberal doses of humor, it focuses on the sometimes complex and always amusing dynamics of a team forced to work together in high-stress situations".
A bit of a little less deadly serious cross between 24 and the various CSI(s), NCIS does at the very least have the on-screen corgis going for it. They first put in a appearance in the 2nd season episode The Meat Puzzle:
Ducky (pointing to a corgi): That's Tyson.
Kate: Because he thinks he's a boxer?
Ducky: Because he bites.
The corgis have been mentioned a few times after that and they also make at least one further brief appearance in the 6th season episode Broken Bird. A more ardent watcher than I may well catch more glimpses of Mrs. Mallard's dogs.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Tv-series
Episode
Umney's Last Case
First aired
Wednesday July 19, 2006 (episode initial air date)
Country
USA
Directed by
Rob Bowman
Written by
April Smith from the story by Stephen King
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Also starring
William H. Macy (Clyde Umney/Sam Landry/George Demmick), Tory Mussett (Arlene "Candy" Cain/Pool Girl), Jacqueline McKenzie (Linda Landry/Gloria Demmick) etc.
Comments
In the 3rd episode (Umney's Last Case) of this supernatural/horror series based on Stephen King's short stories, the titular 1930's detective Clyde Umney has an undocked pembroke for a dog. According to Joanne Nilson, Umney "told [the corgi] to 'get a job' when it barked at him. He then said that 'a pembroke welsh corgi has a bark that cuts through your head like shards of glass.' Funny and true." Indeed. Unfortunately, it seems the pem "gets it" later on in the show when a bad guy (also played by the talented Mr. Macy) shows up and offs several other characters.
Links
Umney's Last Case page at TV.com
Category
Game
Subcategory
Console game
Game type
Simulation, 1 player (wireless group play option)
Year
2005 (year of realease)
Country
USA
Company credits
Nintendo (publisher & developer)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A corgi puppy (virtual, obviously!) you can purchase to play with
Comments
Nintendogs is a game for the Nintendo DS mini console. It's a Tamagotchi-styled game where the player "adopts", "takes care of", "trains" and "plays with" a digital puppy. You can also take your puppy to virtual dog show of some sort. From Nintendo DS site:
"Put a puppy inside your Nintendo DS! Nintendogs brings puppy love to a whole new level! Features:- Each version of Nintendogs comes with six breeds to choose from, and you can unlock additional breeds by playing with other owners through wireless gameplay!
- Collect and play with a huge array of items like tennis balls, flying discs and even clothing accessories
- Compete in obedience and agility trials to earn cash to buy even more dogs
- Interact wirelessly with friends' Nintendogs using the innovative Bark Mode"
Movement modelling and at least some of the behaviour of the puppies seem to be rather well done, but otherwise I'm not sure what to make of a pembroke playing toy tug with sunglasses on (see links, lower left corner of the page, I [love] puppy cam! video 1). For those into this kind of thing, the virtual pembroke is included in the "lab pack" version, along with 5 other breeds (there are 18 breeds total).
Links
http://www.nintendogs.com
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2007
Country
USA
Directed by
Joel Schumacher
Produced by
Beau Flynn, Fernley Phillips, Tripp Vinson
Written by
Fernley Phillips
Company credits
New Line Cinema (distribution)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Alfie
Also starring
Jim Carrey (Walter Sparrow/Detective Fingerling), Virginia Madsen (Agatha Pink-Sparrow/Fabrizia), Logan Lerman (Robin Sparrow)
Comments
This serious suspence film effort from from the director Joel Schumacher and the comedian actor Jim Carrey, The Number 23 plays heavily on Robert Anton Wilson's and Robert Shea's esoteric numerological concept of the 23 Enigma. It received almost unanimously bad reviews from critics but seems to have been more easily accepted by the regular viewers.
There is a fairly prominent dog in the movie, Ned, who is unfortunately not a corgi. However in the semi-imaginary childhood reminisence sequence at the start of the movie we meet a bit unruly Cardigan Alfie who leads Sparrow/Fingerling to the dead body of his mistress, the widow Dobkins. He has perhaps a little less than one minute of screen time and is last seen resting his head on Mrs. Dobkins' corpse in a rather touching show of lyoalty.
Alfie's real name is not mentioned in the credits but it's possible the information on him is available from Boone's Animals for Hollywood, Inc. that is credited with providing the animals for the movie.
Links
English Title
Patrik, Age 1.5
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2008
Country
Sweden
Directed by
Ella Lemhagen
Produced by
Tomas Michaelsson
Written by
Ella Lemhagen, Michael Druker (story)
Company credits
Filmlance International AB, Sonet Film Sweden (distribution)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
A blue merle Cardigan briefly seen in a beach scene
Also starring
Gustaf Skarsgård (Göran Skoogh), Torkel Petersson (Sven Skoogh), Tom Ljungman (Patrik)
Comments
In this Swedish comedy-drama film, a gay couple tries to adopt a baby but ends up with the titular Patrik, a homophobic teenager with a criminal background. In a brief scene, we see him kick a trashbin to pieces on a beach while a woman walking a blue merle Cardigan watches the proceedings. No other Corgi content there apparently, but the movie has been fairly well received by the critics when it saw a limited release in USA.
Links
- The Wikipedia entry of the movie (English)
- A slightly similar scene in Finnish drama comedy TV-series Käenpesä
Alternative title
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (in North America, Australia and New Zealand)
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie, animated
Year
2012
Country
United Kingdom / USA
Written by
Gideon Defoe (original novel the movie is based on)
Directed by
Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt
Company Credits
Aardman Animations, Sony Pictures Animation, (distributed by) Columbia Pictures
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
See Comments below
Also starring
Hugh Grant (voice of the Pirate Captain), Martin Freeman (voice of the Pirate with a Scarf), Imelda Staunton (voice of Queen Victoria), David Tennant (voice of Charles Darwin)
Comments
Yet another claymation movie co-produced by Aardman Features (renowned as company that brought us Wallace and Gromit) made with American backing, this time from Sony.
A very slightly more adult fare than the previous five Aardman movies (and the first to be shot in 3D), the film follows The Pirate Captain (apparently that is his name, not just a title) and his rather inept crew in their attempt to win the Pirate of the Year competition while trying not to get bamboozled out of some very valuable property by a somewhat dastardly Charles Darwin and killed by a rather demented Queen Victoria.
Despite not considered a huge success, it's still pretty funny and contains two very brief "kind of" sightings of corgis: first occurs in the very beginning when a Pembroke is seen displayed on the very top of Queen's coat of arms and the second come a while later as detailed in the second link below. "Live" corgis are unfortunately not seen in the movie, possibly for reasons that I won't get into here, because spoilers.
Links
Full title
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Internet movie
Year
2020
Country
USA
Written by
William Goldman (original novel and movie)
Company Credits
Quibi
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A Rodent of Unusual Size
Starring dog
Joe Jonas' and Sophie Turner's corgi
Also starring
Tiffany Haddish, Joe Jonas, Jenna Ortega, Annabelle Wallis etc. as Buttercup; Jack Black, Kaitlyn Dever, Chris Pine, Sophie Turner etc. as Westley; + many more
Comments
One of the few positive results of the covid-19 pandemic has been that they forced people to invent new or at least unusual ways of doing things. Among the strangest results thereof must be The Princess Bride remake created entirely out of filmed-at-home segments starring or otherwise created by numerous TV- and movieworld celebs, including many A-list actors. Jason Reitman helmed the project for Quibi, a now defunct streaming service that focused on short-form content.
The inevitable corgi shows up in the Fire Swamp segment, "vicously" attacking the heroes. For the full hilarious film, see "Links" below.
Links
- About the project @ Looper
- All the segments edited as a full movie on Youtube
Category
Movies
Year
2006
Country
United Kingdom
Directed by
Stephen Frears
Written by
Peter Morgan
Produced by
Andy Harries, Christine Langan, Tracey Seaward (producers), François Ivernel, Cameron McCracken and Scott Rudin (executive producers)
Company credits
BIM Distribuzione, Canal+, France 3 Cinéma, Granada Film Productions etc. (production)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
various Pembrokes of the Queen of Britain
Starring dogs
Alice, Anna, Megan, Oliver and Poppy: dogs of Liz Smith from Little Blakenham, near Ipswich
Also starring
Helen Mirren (Queen Elizabeth II), Michael Sheen (Tony Blair), James Cromwell (Prince Philip)
Sylvia Syms (The Queen Mother), Alex Jennings (Prince Charles), Helen McCrory (Cherie Blair) etc.
Comments
Helen Mirren has captivated many viewers with her very Oscar-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II in this fictionalized account of events following Princess Diana's death. An Internet Movie Database review says: "It's a film that shows us Prince Charles crying, Elizabeth swearing, corgi dogs frolicking and the Blairs fumbling in matters of royal protocol and yet treats none of it in a campy or satiric manner."
We are of course mainly interested in the frolicking corgis. Here are some testimonies from Corgi-L mailing list:
- Dolores Simpson mentions "quick shots of beeeeeaaaauuuutyful [pembrokes] sprinkled all through the movie! Fat fluffy wonderfully behaved - all the things we hear the royal corgis are not!"
- Helen Turin confirms the "corgis were obviously better trained than the real queen's."
- Diana F. Scholl reminds us not to "jump up too fast at the end or you'll miss the final corgi comment on the formal gardens of Buckingham Palace. They do indeed have the last word..."
Truth to tell, the corgis aren't really on in that many a scene (and why would they be). But judging by the reaction of the audience (I actually got out and went to a movie theatre to see this one!) the film would have been a much darker affair if they hadn't been there to lighten up the mood. On the strenght of that alone, I've decided to let The Queen to get a "major sighting" status.
On the subject of the dog actors in the movie, East Anglian Daily Times reports that "the talented canine co-stars belong to Liz Smith, a retired outside caterer from Little Blakenham, near Ipswich, who became known as 'Corgi Liz' on set [...] Mrs Smith, who like the Queen adores corgis, was approached to help with the film after her dogs were spotted at an obedience competition by an animal consultant for film and television." You can catch a few teaser shots of them in the official site's (see below) trailer and gallery sections.
Links
http://www.thequeenmovie.co.uk/
Category
Movie, animated
Year
2019
Country
Belgium
Written by
John R. Smith, Rob Sprackling
Directed by
Ben Stassen, Vincent Kesteloot
Company Credits
nWave Pictures
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Rex
Comments
This almost universally and in my opinion deservedly* panned by critics animated movie is about the Queen of Britain's favorite Corgi, Rex and his (mis)adventures when he gets tricked to go outside the royal palace by Charlie, another of the Queen's Corgis and ends up in a pound. As it's fun-for-the-whole-family movie, the ending is of course happy for Rex (and less so for the dastardly Charlie).
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*) I took one for the database and sat through this predictable and boring piece: it doesn't deserve a review on the site, but you can read one that sums things up fairly well @ ScreenRant
^) well, an attempt at fun anyway
Links
About the movie @Internet Movie Database
Category
Movies
Year
1996
Country
USA
Directed by
Rod Hardy, George Miller
Written by
Daniel Defoe (novel), Christopher Lofton etc.
Company credits
Miramax Films (distribution), Introvision International (fx)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Skipper
Also starring
Pierce Brosnan (Robinson Crusoe), William Takaku (Friday)
Comments
I suspect the makers wanted a bizarre looking dog to represent a ship cur and chose a cardigan at random. Otherwise, Skipper epitomizes the best traits of his breed, namely bravery (runs away at the first sign of danger) and intelligence (chases a burning fuse down to a gunpowder barrel and explodes along with it). Seriously, though: CWC content aside, this is rather a pointless, although not seriously bad, take on an old classic.
Trivia: despite my lack of enthusiasm for the quality of this film, it is in fact the very work of fiction that inspired me to begin collecting information for CSDb all those years ago...
Category
TV-series (web), animated
Year
2014 (first appearance of Corgi)
Country
USA
Written by
Monty Oum (series creator), Miles Luna, Kerry Shawcross
Directed by
Monty Oum (Volumes 1 and 2), Kerry Shawcross (Volume 3 onwards)
Company Credits
Rooster Teeth
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Zwei (voiced by Penny Layne Matthews)
Also starring
Lindsay Jones (voice of Ruby Rose), Kara Eberle (voice of Weiss Schnee), Arryn Zech (voice of Blake Belladonna), Barbara Dunkelman (voice of Yang Xiao Long)
Comments
RWBY is an American-made anime-style web series (running two different versions, "realistic" and Chibi) and media franchise (having spinned off into games) created by the late Monty Oum. It centers on four super-powered teenage girls who defend humanity by hunting monstrous entities known as "creatures of Grimm" (as well as human criminals) on the alien world of Remnant. The name of the franchise and also of the girls' combat/hunting team is derived from the four main characters' forenames of Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang.
The country of production aside, RWBY stands out from your run-of-the-mill superpowered girl anime by including an important Corgi character, Zwei the Pembroke (who's name is a fairly obviously nod to the seminal Cowboy Bebop and the "data dog" Ein). He is officially the pet of Ruby and Yang, although apparently he is much more intelligent than a normal dog — or even a Corgi. He also has superpowers of his own, being seemingly impervious to fire and extremely damage resistant otherwise as well.
Having not watched the series yet, I don't know in how many episodes exactly Zwei appears in (he's been on since episode 8 of Volume 2, Field Trip), but apparently he's in fairly many so I've given this series a tentative "major sighting" status.
Links
Category
TV and VOD Movies
Year
2012
Country
USA
Directed by
David DeCoteau (using pseudonym Mary Crawford)
Written by
Andrew Helm
Company credits
Rapid Heart Pictures
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Also starring
Daniel Bernhardt (Bryan), Gary Daniels (Dean), Cynthia Rothrock (Nanna), Christopher Mitchum (Pop) etc.
Comments
This Christmas movie without actual Christmas but with a fair amount of Corgi content and a supporting cast of former small-time action stars is one of the many creations of David DeCoteau, a profic Video-on-Demand movie maker with a diverse portfolio ranging from softcore gay porn to talking-animal movies. Like a lot of Mr. DeCoteau's efforts, it's widely considered bad. Like really bad. Starting with the title giving away the big plot twist.
For those interested in viewing anyway, the movie can be seen in its entirety on Youtube (and it's allegedly legally licensed to boot): see Links below (and it's probably available in other places too of course). Those in doubt might like to check out Nathan Rabin's hilarious (but spoiler-filled) review before commiting to watch however.
Links
Category
Music video
Year
2011
Country
Sweden
Artist
Swedish House Mafia (Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso), John Martin (guest vocals)
Track Length
3 minutes 36 seconds
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A Pembroke belonging to a "posse" of dogs that fight crime
Comments
The official video for Swedish House Mafia's (an electronic dance "supergroup" from, of all places, Sweden) Save The World features, of all things, a vigilante pack of dogs fights criminals and protects ordinary people. Among them is plucky female Pembroke who, regardless of what you might think of the plot, gets plenty of screentime. In fact enough for this to rank as a "major sighting". So watching the video is worth the while even if you aren't too excited about progressive house as an e-music style.
Links
Swedish House Mafia on MySpace
Category
Game
Subcategory
Computer game (multiple platforms)
Game type
Multiplayer third-person 3D sandbox game/life simulation
Year
2014 (year of Windows version realease)
Country
USA
Company credits
Maxis, The Sims Studio (development); Electronic Arts (publisher)
Corgi breed
Pembroke (or possibly a mix of some kind)
Comments
The Sims 4 is the latest version of the hugely popular series of "life simulation" games originally designed by Will Wright at Maxis. Over the years and versions, there have been several unofficial opportunities to mod a Corgi into the game but the first official option (as far as I'm aware anyway) only came along with Cats & Dogs expansion in November 2017.
The trailer for the said expansion (see "Links" below) shows the requisite Corgi that has been rendered a bit leggy and tailed, which makes me wonder if it's supposed to be a Pem, a Cardi, a mix thereof or a mix of either with some entirely different breed. Most probably the first, but with somewhat lacking execution.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
1992
Country
USA
Directed by
Emile Ardolino
Written by
Joseph Howard
Company credits
Touchstone Pictures (production)
Corgi breed
Mix
Also starring
Whoopi Goldberg (Deloris Van Cartier/Sister Mary Clarence), Maggie Smith (Mother Superior), Kathy Najimy (Sister Mary Patrick)
Comments
From Internet Movie Database: "Sister Act is about a Reno lounge singer named Deloris Van Carter who witnesses her mobster boyfriend killing an employer. She is then hidden in a convent under a witness protection program." A musical feelgood comedy in the 'complementing opposites' vein. Many people on IMDb seem think it's one of the best, if not THE best movie ever. I, however, confess to 'walking out' on it pretty quickly. So quickly, in fact, that I missed the alleged Corgi mix altogether... Based on that, I've placed this movie in the minor sightings category.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Episode with corgi
Knock, Knock
Year
2001
Country
USA
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Also starring
Peter Krause (Nate Fisher), Michael C. Hall (David Fisher), Frances Conroy (Ruth Fisher), Lauren Ambrose (Claire Fisher), Rachel Griffiths (Brenda Chenowith), Dina Waters (Tracy)
Comments
In the last episode of the first season ("Knock, Knock") of this dark comedy/drama series, a cardi is seen sitting by the side of Aunt Lilian in the death scene at the begining of the show. Also, Tracy later refers to her aunt raising welsh corgis. The fact is also mentioned in her obituary, which you can read in its entirety by visiting the official site (see Links below): Ms. Montrose was a respected and well-loved staple of her community. She raised Welsh Corgis on her estate and her dogs were twice awarded Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club's annual tournament.
Lillian Grace Montrose
October 4, 1936 - June 14, 2001
Links
http://www.hbo.com/sixfeetunder/
Category
TV-series
Year
1992 (1st season)
Country
United Kingdom
Directed by
Sylvie Boden, John Stroud
Written by
Paul Mendelson
Company credits
BBC, Cinema Verity (production)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Hemingway
Also starring
Trevor Byfield (Jack), George Costigan (Pete Rokeby), Miriam Karlin (Yetta Feldman) etc.
Comments
As described by Anita Nordlunde, this BBC sitcom features a "Pembroke Corgi called Hemingway who according to the script is a confused miniatue Rottweiler and is very much part of the family who buy a house with a resident Jewish ghost". Yep, you read that last part right: it's a sitcom about a family and a Jewish grandmother ghost. Apparently many people find the treatment of an old Jewish woman to be rather stereotypical and the show is not generally known to have been all that good otherwise either, but it does seem to have had a high corgi content factor. So Haunt Me ran for a couple of seasons (and a Christmas special) until 1994.
Alternate titles
Karvakamut avaruudessa (Finnish title)
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2009
Country
USA
Written by
Robert Vince and Anna McRoberts, "Air Bud" character created by Kevin DiCicco
Directed by
Robert Vince
Company Credits
Walt Disney Home Entertainment (presents), Keystone Entertainment (producer)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Two corgis, presumbaly belonging to the Queen of Britain
Also starring
F.T. Anderson (Investor #2), Diedrich Bader (Yuri), Field Cate (voice of Buddha), Kendall Cross (Sam's Mom)
Comments
This direct-to-video live action children’s effort from Di$ney is 7th installment in the Air Bud movie franchise. The titular character of the series apparently a Golden Retriever puppy that can play basket ball, or something...
Space Buddies isn’t getting stellar reviews, but does have several corgi moments according to this very detailed report from Lee H. Skinner: "there is a short 3-second scene showing Queen Elizabeth with 2 Pembroke Welsh Corgis at 54 minutes and 14 seconds into the new Disney DVD & Blu-ray movie 'Space Buddies'. Two more camera shots of the corgis including a great close-up of the 2 corgis occurs about 6 minutes later. 12 minutes later there is a 4th close-up shot of the corgis. 2 minutes later there are still 2 more shots of the corgis, with one of them barking excitedly."
Having actually seen this movie in a Finnish dubbed version (well I fastforwarded to the Corgi bits), I can vouch for it being, well, not so very good (despite being science fiction of sorts, which always elicits extra points from me). Obviously I'm not part of the demographic for talking puppy dogs flying spaceships though so take that with a grain of salt. Anyway, I'm not entirely sure if the old British lady with the Corgis is actually ever stated to be Queen Elizabeth. I think it actually might be just an incidental resemblance. But the Corgi moments are in and of themselves as reported above.
Links
Official site
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie
Year
2021
Directed by
Pablo Larraín
Written by
Steven Knight
Company credits
Komplizen Film, Fabula, Shoebox Films etc.
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Various pembrokes of the Queen of Britain
Also starring
Kristen Stewart (Diana, Princess of Wales, née Spencer), Timothy Spall (Equerry Major Alistair Gregory),
Jack Farthing (Charles, Prince of Wales), Stella Gonet (Queen Elizabeth) etc.
Comments
This is a psychological drama film about Princess Diana's existential crisis (and at least borderline mental breakdown) taking place over three days from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day 1991, as she considers divorcing Prince Charles and leaving the British royal family. I had a chance to watch this near the time of writing and was left somewhat perplexed by it as my experiences with people in a downward spiral of mental problems is now (thankfully) decades old. And of course I have no experience being a royal so maybe I'm not equipped to comment on the believability of it all. Nevertheless, I agree Kirsten Stewart was very good in the lead role and deservedly got a Best Actress Oscar nomination and praise from Princess’ staff for one of the most accurate portrayals of the late Princess. Timothy Spall is, as expected, very good too in a more minor but still important role. For a more detailed review, you can read that of A.O. Scott via Links below.
So what about the Corgis then, you ask? Well, there are a few sightings thereof, one at about an hour in where the Queen lets her pack out to Sandringham House gardens and another at the very end where it looks like Prince Charles is going to receive a bit of a talking to from his mother. These scenes are also briefly glimpsed in the trailer (also linked to below) but I can't recall the one where they pour out of what appears to be their personal Rolls Royce actually being in the film. Maybe I wasn't momentarily paying attention. Anyway, their role is entirely incidental to the plot (Diana doesn't for example interact with them in any way) so this is most definitely a Minor Sighting.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Year
1984 (series start)
Country
United Kingdom
Created by
Peter Fluck and Roger Law
Directed by
Peter Harris, John Stroud, Gordon Elsbury, Graham C. Williams etc.
Written by
Richard Curtis, Geoff Atkinson, Jack Docherty, Ian Hislop, Moray Hunter etc.
Company credits
ITV1, BritBox
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Also starring
Chris Emmett, Jon Glover, Jessica Martin, Steve Nallon etc.
Comments
Spitting Image is a long-running, satirical British television puppet show, the first series of which was on from 1984 to 1996 and the second from 2020 to 2022. It broadly lampooned the day's celebrities and current events in politics, entertainment, sport and British popular culture utilizing hand-crafted caricature-styled puppets.
While politicians tend to bear the brunt of the satire, Queen Elizabeth II was not given a free pass and she was portrayed as at the very least slightly addled (or maybe just drunk), given to sprouting profanities (in the second series) and was accompanied by her blunderbuss-toting, buffoonish husband Prince Phillip and a herd of definitely deranged and (of course) horribly ugly Pembrokes. One or more (sometimes lots more) of these last quite often cropped up in skits involving the Queen (and occasionally otherwise), so there were plenty of short appearances over the years, but still not quite enough for me to declare this a "full" sighting.
Links
- About the show @Comedy.co.uk
- An article about scrapping of several episodes involving the Queen after her death @The Scotsman (which might have contributed to the second series cancellation)
- The Royal Succession sketch with (not surprisingly) quite a bit of corgi content on YouTube
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Episode with corgi
#114: The Singularity
Date
October 31st, 1997 (original airdate of the episode)
Country
USA
Written by
Robert C. Cooper
Directed by
Mario Azzopardi
Corgi breed
Pembroke, possibly a mix
Also starring
Richard Dean Anderson (Jack O'Neill), Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter), Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson), Christopher Judge (Teal'c), Katie Stuart (Cassandra)
Comments
The episode 14 of season 1 of this very long running, intentionally (I hope) somewhat campy scifi adventure series features a dog that looks like it might be a pembroke or possibly a corgi mix. It's presented by Colonel Jack O'Neill as gift to Cassandra, the little girl who is the last survivor of her civilization, at the very end of the episode. Jack says: "We have a rule here on Earth. Every kid has got to have a dog. This is a dog, and he's yours".
Edie Bain comments that the corgi "actually has close to minute of screen time, even if it doesn't get to do anything more than lie there looking cute".
Links
'The Singularity' @ Gateworld
Also known as
22 Minutes
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Tv-series / web content
Clip with corgi
Queen's Message
Date uploaded
December 13, 2011
Country
Canada
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
One of the Pembrokes of the Queen of Britain
Comments
This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy show. The show's format is a mock news program, intercut with comic sketches, parody commercials and humorous interviews of public figures. The show's Internet site also features original web video content and one of the clips features a misbehaving Queen of Britain attempting to deliver a Christmas speech to the Commonwealth. The clip obviously also involves one of the Royal Corgis, this time played by an undocked Pembroke. You can watch the 1 minute 35 second clip can be watched by clicking the link below — it's recommended to the friends of fart humour especially.
Links
Direct link to the clip (the clip is preceded by commercials)
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Music video
Year
1988
Country
USA
Company Credits
Virgin Records
Artist
Suicidal Tendecies
Album
How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today
Track Length
4 minutes 30 seconds
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A red Pembroke briefly seen playing with plastic toy brain(!), and a brindle one glimpsed at the background right after that
Comments
One of the most bizarre Corgi sightings, but an extremely short one: the video for the Suicidal Tendecies song Trip At The Brain features two Pembrokes, one of which is momentarily seen chewing on gray plastic toy brain! This is too weird... Unfortunately, the song is... erm, not that good — but hey, we can't have everything (-;)
You can watch part of the video (and if you don't blink a lot, catch the Pems) on YouTube.
Links
http://www.suicidaltendencies.com/
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Movie (short)
Year
2009
Country
UK
Written by
Nina Barnfather, Ian Smith
Directed by
Ian Smith
Produced by
Sophie Fante, Ian Smith
Company Credits
Auntie Margaret (presents)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Several Pembrokes of different colours acting as "accessories" of the main character who styles himself as "the real Princess of Wales"
Also starring
Gary Mullins & Pixie Perez (Rhiannon Grand Slam Glam), Gareth David-Lloyd (Brian Jones), Colin Charvis (Colin),
Chris Needs (Chris)
Comments
From IMdb: "Keen to win the British amateur drag queen final, Rhiannon Grand Slam Glam seems to be caught in the middle of an unfortunate event. Shame about her fellow competitors who appear to have been framed for murder". This a short (length 25 minutes) and at least judging by the trailer rather comedic take on the British drag scene. Corgis are on rather a lot in the trailer (see links below) but since I haven't seen the actual film I didn't grant this a "major sighting" status.
Links
Trailer on YouTube (remember to watch until the end for the best wisecrack and corgi shot combined), thanks to Victoria Rose for spotting it!
Category
TV and VOD Movies
Year
2019
Country
USA
Directed by
Andew Cymek
Written by
Andrew Cymek, Brigitte Kingsley, Patrick McBrearty
Company credits
Northern Soul Film Company, Good Soldier Films (production)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Sherlock
Starring dog
Ser Sherlock
Also starring
Kelly Kruger (Lauren Bradley), Kevin McGarry (Ben Summers)
Comments
Holiday romance TV movies aren't usually held in very high esteem in regards to their cinematic qualities. Neither is this one, but at least it has a cute little Corgi puppy going for it. However, the review in "Links" below does say it's not on nearly enough (despite the movie's name) so you will be excused if you give this one a pass.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series / talk show
Episode with corgi
Halloween special 2006
Date
October 31, 2006 (original airdate of the episode)
Country
USA
Company credits
ABC
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Three pembrokes of "Queen Elizabeth II"
Also starring
Joy Behar (host, dressed as Queen Elizabeth II), Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Rosie O'Donnell, Barbara Walters
Comments
A very marginal inclusion, the Halloween special for 2006 of this rather popular and acclaimed talk show featured the host Joy Behar dressed up as Queen Elizabeth II, complete with the requisite corgis.
Links
Episode summary @ TV.com
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-series
Episode with corgi
#417: Someone Old, Someplace New
Date
February 28, 2006 (original airdate of the episode)
Country
USA
Written by
Jeff Greenstein (story), Alex Herschlag and Jhoni Marchinko (teleplay)
Directed by
James Burrows
Corgi breed
Unkown (probably pembroke)
Also starring
Eric McCormack (Will Truman), Debra Messing (Grace Adler), Sean Hayes (Jack McFarland), Megan Mullally (Karen Walker), Shelley Morrison (Rosario Salazar)
Comments
An extemely minor sighting. In the 4th season episode Someone Old, Someplace New of the sitcom Will and Grace a painting of corgi can be seen (presumably on the wall) in the scene in the pub where Karen’s mom works at.
Links
Episode summary @ TV.com
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
TV-Movie
Year
2007
Country
USA
Written by
George Beckerman
Directed by
Graeme Clifford
Company Credits
BPI And She Was Films, Jaffe/Braunstein Films, Lifetime Television, President Home Entertainment
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A Pembroke belonging to the main character
Also starring
Kirstie Alley (Byrdie Langdon), Eric Christian Olsen (Jason 'Krueger' Langdon), Stacy Grant (Andrea Davis) etc.
Comments
From IMdb: "Byrdie, fast approaching 50 years old, is considered an over-the-hill has been script writer, along with her old studio friends and agent who have all been replaced by younger models. So Byrdie concocts a plan of revenge - get her young charming nephew, Jason, to pretend to be a script writer."
Apparently not a very enjoyable romantic comedy TV-movie, this didn't go down too well with our informant Terasa A. Brown either. She writes: "Kirstie Alley's character had a R/W Pem. Of course, in real life she has one, too. I can't recommend the movie as it annoyed me with all the yelling. I guess if you can't be funny, yell".
It is unknown if the Pembroke is in fact Ms. Alley's own dog or how much screen time it in fact has. So I'm tentatively passing this off as a minor sighting.
Category
Movies
Year
2007
Country
USA
Directed and Written by
Mike White
Company credits
Black & White Productions, Plan B Entertainment, Rip Cord Productions (production), animals provided by Boone's Animals for Hollywood
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
One of the dogs of Pier, the animal trainer
Starring dog
American Travis
Also starring
Molly Shannon (Peggy), Laura Dern (Bret), Regina King (Layla), Thomas McCarthy (Pier)
Comments
Starting out as more of a romantic comedy, this movie takes a turns in to a more serious drama about animal rights issues towards the end. Can't say I personally was able to take the main character's change of priorities very seriously, in fact Molly Shannon's character appeared to get progressively more unhinged and divorced from reality. The movie does not appeart to be well liked generally either, but the Cardigan has a fair amount of screen time so it's not a total waste of time to watch. Be adviced it doesn't end happily for the Cardigan however.
For his efforts at playing a dog with his paralyzed back legs in a cart, American Trawis (who was at the time of filming quite healthy) was nominated the FIDO for the Best Comedy Canine in 2007. See links below for the press release.
Please note that there is also a short crime/thriller movie directed by Kevin Lau with the same title from the same year that doesn't AFAIK feature a corgi.
Links
Official site of the movie
The FIDOs 2007 press release (PDF)
The FIDOs main page
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