Credits

“I worked with Doug and Bart on An Unfinished Life. It was such a pleasure to watch them interact—truly inspiring. Doug and his crew were always very organized and prepared. Their awareness and knowledge of the demands of production continually impressed me. We couldn’t have done it without them.”

– Alan Ladd Jr., Producer, Chariots of Fire, Braveheart, An Unfinished Life

“In my opinion, Doug and Lynne Seus are the best in the business by far. They deliver what is scripted quickly and efficiently. Whenever I have any animal work, they are always my first call. I greatly admire their dedication to their animals’ health, safety and well being as well as their unflagging efforts to protect the environment.”

– Arne Schmidt, Producer of The Great Outdoors, Stay Tuned, Big Fish

“Of all the movie stars I’ve ever worked with, Bart the Bear is as talented, cooperative, and charismatic as the best of them. He takes no time at all in make-up, never wants to stay in his trailer, and does all his own stunts. I can’t wait to work with him again.”

– Ed Zwick – Director, Legends of the Fall

[画像:Bart the Bear 2 on a 2013 episode of the HBO hit "Game of Thrones." ]

Bart the Bear 2 on a 2013 episode of the HBO hit “Game of Thrones.”

What We Are Known For

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FEATURE FILMS
1976 – Baker’s Hawk – Doty – Dayton Productions
1978 – Strange Force on Thunder Mt. – American National Ent.
1979 – Wind River – Columbia Pictures
1980 – Across the Great Divide – Pacific International Enterprises
1980 – Windwalker – Pacific International Enterprises
1981 – Surroundvision – Disney WED Enterprises
1982 – Imax Grand Canyon – World Cinema
1983 – The Beast – Frameline Productions
1983 – In Search of a Golden Sky – Com World
1984 – Clan of the Cave Bear – Warner Brothers
1984 – The Journey of Natty Gann – Disney
1985 – Classics Illustrated – Schick Sunn Classics
1987- The Bear – Tri-Star / Renn Productions
(Bart the Bear was recommended by Ernest Gold for an Academy Award in the “special achievement” category for the movie The Bear. This performance, including many others, helped land Bart and his accomplishments on critics’ lists of history’s greatest animal actors).
1988 – The Great Outdoors – Universal
1990 – Waiting for Salazar – Bitteroot Productions
1990 – On Deadly Ground – Warner Brothers
1991 – Lost in the Barrens – Canadian Broadcasting Company
1991 – Indian Runner – Sean Penn / Indian River Production
1992 – Stay Tuned – Morgan Creek Productions
1992 – Imax Great American West – World Cinema
1993 – Whitefang – Disney
1993 – Wind River – Doty-Daton Productions
1994 – Giant of Thunder Mountain – Richard Kiel Productions
1994 – Walking Thunder – Majestic Enterprises
1994 – Imax Yellowstone – Vineyard Productions
1995 – Red River – Karukeva Productions (French)
1995 – Legends of the Fall – Tri-Star Pictures
1996 – The Edge – 20th Century Fox
1997 – Meet the Deedles – Disney
1999 – Like a Mother Bear – Crown Sephira Productions
2000 – Imax Lewis & Clark – Vineyard Productions
2000 – Dr. Dolittle 2 – 20th Century Fox
2003 – Big Fish – Columbia Pictures
2003 – Unfinished Life – Miramax
2003 – Without a Paddle – Paramount
2004 – Into The West – TNT / Dreamworks
2006 – Evan Almighty – Universal Pictures
2006 – Into The Wild – Sean Penn / Paramount
2008 – Horse Crazy, The Legend of Grizzly Mountain – Medication Productions
2009 – Have you Heard About the Morgans? – Columbia Pictures
2010 – ZooKeeper – MGM Studios
2011 – Druid Peak – Zelnick Mayer Productions
2011 – We Bought a Zoo – 20th Century Fox
2013 – Red Machine – Red Machine Canada
2013 – Game of Thrones – HBO
2014 – Girl’s Camp Movie – Thrillion Dollar Productions
2014 – Once I Was a Beehive – Main Dog Productions
2015 – Pete’s Dragon – Disney
2015 – Into the Grizzly Maze

PUBLICATIONS
1982 Dec- LIFE Magazine – Feature story[画像:bart-cover-of-LIFE-150p]
1984 Aug – LIFE Magazine – Cover
1986 Feb – National Geographic – Feature Story
1987 Jan – Backpacker Magazine – Feature Story
1989 Nov- People Magazine – Inside spread Feature
1989 LIFE-Spring -Magazine – Special Issue Hollywood
1990 Jan- People Weekly -Featured Story
1991 July- Boy’s Life – Featured Story
1992 Mar- National Geographic World- Inside Spread Feature
1993 Summer -Outside Magazine- Featured Story[画像:bart-Peple-most-intriguing-people150p]
1993 June- Architectural Digest -Feature Story
1993 Aug- Backpacker Magazine – Article
1995 Nov- Outside Magazine – Cover
1996 Sept-Men’s Health Magazine- Featured Story
1997 Sept- TIME Magazine -Featured Review
1997 Sept- Sports Afield – Cover
1997 Sept- News Week- Featured Review
1999 May- National Geographic World- Featured Story[画像:natgeo150]
1999 May- LIFE Magazine- Commemorative Issue
2001 Jun- National Geographic – Featured story
2001 July- People magazine – Featured Review
2002 Jan- National Geographic- Cover
2003 Jan- National Geographic Kids- Featured Story
2020 March-Empire Magazine – The Great Bear
2020 May- Men’s Journal – Meet Doug Seus, the Bear Whisperer Who Trains and Protects Grizzlies

TV – MOVIES – MINI SERIES – EPISODES
1977 – Centennial – Mitchner Mini Series – NBC
1978 – Deerslayer – Schick Sunn Classics
1978 – Grizzly Adams – Schick Sunn Classics
1979 – Lobo, King of the Currumpau – Canadian Broadcasting Company
1979 – National Wildlife Foundation – Cine Designs Films
1980 – Krugers Christmas – Bonneville Productions
1980 – The Predators – National Geographic TV (Produced by Wasatch Rocky Mt. Wildlife)
1981 – Camping in Bear Country – U.S. Forest Service
1982 – Wild America – PBS
1982 – The Man Who Loved Bears – PBS
1982 – Black Bears – BBC
1983 – The Gambler – K. Rogers / CBS
1986 – Down the Long Hills – Disney
1990 – The Aldo Leopold Story – Florentine Films
1990 – The Young Riders “The Decoy” – MGM
(Bart the Bear Guest Star)
1990- Entertainment Tonight – NBC
1990 – RAI – Productions Italy
1991 – The Today Show – NBC
1992 – Cross Roads “Amanda” – R.Yuric Riders Productions
1994 – McKenna “Bear” – A.K.A. Productions
1996 – Lonesome Dove / Deadman’s Walk – RHI Productions
1997 – Stray Dog – Lynch Entertainment / Nickelodeon
1998 – 1988 Academy Awards – Gil Gates Production
(Bart the Bear as special presenter)
1999 – Ballad of Lucy Whipple – Movie of the Week – CAP Production
2000 – Christmas in the Clouds – Unapix Productions
2001 – The Tonight Show with Jay Leno – NBC
(Tank the Bear Guest Star)
2002 – Everwood – Warner Brothers TV
2003 – Entertainment Tonight – NBC
2003 – Oprah Winfrey – ABC
2003 – Access Hollywood – ABC
2004 – Mr. Sirura’s Zoo – Nipon Television
2005 – CSI – CBS
2005 – Everwood – Warner Brothers TV
2005 – The Amazing Race – CBS
2006 – National Geographic Explorer – National Geographic TV
2007 – On the Lot – Dreamworks – NBC
2012 – 60 Minutes Australia – www.9news.com/
2013 – Game of Thrones – HBO
2014 – Good Morning America – ABC News
2014 – Nightline – ABC News
2014 – State of Alaska Dept. of Tourism Campaign
2015 – Tairiku Oudan Adventure – Dragon Entertainment
2016 – Red Bull Performing Under Pressure
2017 – Radioflash
2019 – Man Vs. Bear– Discovery Channel

DOCUMENTARIES
1986 – The Grizzlies – National Geographic TV
1988 – Grizzly and Man, an Uneasy Truce – National Audubon Society
1989 – Today Show – NBC
1990 – Those Amazing Animals – CBS
1991 – Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous – NBC
1995 – River of Bears – Komo TV
1995 – Entertainment Tonight – ABC
1996 – Inside Edition – CBS
1996 – Jack Hanna Animal Adventures – Hanna Productions
1996 – Wild on the Set – Discovery
1997 – Ordinary Extraordinary – NBC
1997 – The Baddest Bear – National Geographic TV
1997 – Animal Minds – Nova
1997 – Bearly Acting – CNN Impact
1997 – Movie Magic – Glacier Point Productions
1998 – How’d They Do That? – Time Warner
1998 – Bart the Bear – Stories Unlimited – German Television
1998 – Lights, Camera, BEARS – National Geographic TV
1999 – Animal Smarts – 48 Hours CBS
2000 – Bart the Bear – 48 Hours CBS
2001 – Wild on the Set – Discovery Channel
2001 – Growing Up Grizzly with Brad Pitt – Animal Planet Channel
2002 – National Geographic Cover – National Geographic Magazine
2002 – Olympic Feature – International Sports Broadcasting
2002 – Vets – Discovery Channel – Manitou Motion Pictures
2003 – Growing Up Grizzly 2 with Jennifer Aniston – Discovery Channel
2007 – Lobo, the Wolf That Changed America – BBC and WNET
2015 – Japanese TV Dragon Production
2021 – Animal Emperor – BBC

Vital Ground Foundation

Vital Ground is eternally grateful to Doug and Lynne for devoting the use of their animals to promote our mission. Donations made to the Vital Ground Foundation DO NOT in any way support Doug and Lynne's animals.

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COMMERCIALS
1979 – Coors Beer – Denny Harris of California Productions
1979 – Busch Beer – EUE Screen Gems
1981 – U.S. Postal Service – David Quaid Productions
1982 – Sergio Valenti Jeans – Benard Hirshenson
1982 – Toyota – Fred Levinson / NY Productions, Superbowl Commercial
1982 – Levis – Go West Productions
1985 – Nissan – Fred Levinson Productions
1985 – Scott Towels – Jon Yarbourgh & Co
1986 – Kodiak Smokeless Tobacco – Dick Clintsman Productions
1989 – Levis – Plum Productions
1989 – U.S. Postal Service – Ian Leech / Marol Buthuer
1989 – Chevron – EVE Screen Gems
1990 – Amstel Beer – Miller Osmond Productions
1991 – La Batts Beer – Rick Levine Productions
1991 – Bayer Aspirin – Plum Productions
1992 – Old Milwaukee Beer – Propaganda Films
1993 – Jelly Juice – CPG Productions, Japan
1995 – Marlboro – Plum Productions
1995 – Pursuit (weed killer) – Sutterholm Productions
1999 – Animal Cancer Center – Colorado St. University
2000 – Marlboro – Steven – Weill Productions
2000 – Cell Phone – Austria Productions
2005 – Nikon Camera – National Geographic Image Sales
2007 – P.S.A. for Vital Ground – Zooprax Productions
2007 – Volkswagen Bus – Brooks Freehill Images
2007 – Direct TV – Impatient Cow Productions
2008 – Tums – Arnolds of New York / Anonymous Content Productions
2009 – Master Card – Anonymous Content Productions
2011 – Verizon Cell Phone – Harvest Film
2014 – Young Living Essential Oils – Young Living Productions
2015 – Nokia – Freakin’ Rad Productions
2016 – Red Bull Performing Under Pressure
2017 – Kodiak Cakes
2020 – Kodiak Cakes
2020 – Teton Sports
2021 – Built Bar
2021 – Kodiak Cakes
2022 – Dell Computer Sawtooth Rugged
2022 – Kodiak Cakes

Trainer Doug Seus and Bart the Bear.

REFERENCES
Alan Ladd Jr. – Producer, An Unfinished Life
Lasse Hallstrom – Director, An Unfinished Life
Steve Brill – Director, Without A Paddle
Arne Schmidt – Producer, Big Fish and The Great Outdoors
Randal Kleiser – Director, Whitefang
Ed Zwick – Director, Legends of the Fall
Lee Tamahori – Director, The Edge
Steve Carr – Director, Dr. Dolittle 2
Sean Penn – Director, Into The Wild
Cameron Crow – Director, We Bought a ZOO
Michelle Mac Laren – Director, Game of Thrones

Best Bear "He stands more than nine feet tall, weighs about 1,400 pounds and eats 40 chickens daily. But Bart the Bear isn’t just big – he’s a monster talent. Appearing opposite Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin in The Edge (1997) Bart ‘pilfers the picture,’ according to the Los Angeles Times. Now 21, the Kodiak grizzly (above, presenting Titanic’s sound effects editing Oscar) was just a cub when trainers Doug and Lynne Seus bought him from a zoo for 50ドル. He has since made 50-odd movies, TV shows and commercials and is one of the best-paid animals in showbiz. (Part of his 10,000ドル-a-day fee supports the Seuses wild-bear conservation work.) Still, this star cares little for cash. He’s in it for the peanut-butter sandwiches." -Life, March 1, 1999

Best Bear
“He stands more than nine feet tall, weighs about 1,400 pounds and eats 40 chickens daily. But Bart the Bear isn’t just big – he’s a monster talent. Appearing opposite Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin in The Edge (1997) Bart ‘pilfers the picture,’ according to the Los Angeles Times. Now 21, the Kodiak grizzly (above, presenting Titanic’s sound effects editing Oscar) was just a cub when trainers Doug and Lynne Seus bought him from a zoo for 50ドル. He has since made 50-odd movies, TV shows and commercials and is one of the best-paid animals in showbiz. (Part of his 10,000ドル-a-day fee supports the Seuses wild-bear conservation work.) Still, this star cares little for cash. He’s in it for the peanut-butter sandwiches.”
– Life, March 1, 1999

[画像:"It’s hard to steal a scene from Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin, but Bart the Bear delivers an Oscar-worthy four-legged turn in The Edge." -Newsweek, Sept. 8, 1997 ]

"It’s hard to steal a scene from Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin, but Bart the Bear delivers an Oscar-worthy four-legged turn in The Edge."
– Newsweek, Sept. 8, 1997

[画像:"Academy Award board member Ernest Gold moved to have a special achievement Oscar presented to Seus for The Bear, since the organization had received so many ecstatic letters from biologists. But Gold’s fellow members never watched the film and the matter was brought up at the wrong meeting, so that it was only when The Bear was finally nominated for Best Editing and screened that the other board members saw it and admitted they’d been too hasty in their decision." -Video & Entertainment, May 1990 ]

"Academy Award board member Ernest Gold moved to have a special achievement Oscar presented to Seus for The Bear, since the organization had received so many ecstatic letters from biologists. But Gold’s fellow members never watched the film and the matter was brought up at the wrong meeting, so that it was only when The Bear was finally nominated for Best Editing and screened that the other board members saw it and admitted they’d been too hasty in their decision."
– Video & Entertainment, May 1990