This interview originally aired on Fresh Air on Jan. 9, 2012. Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend is now out in paperback. If you're a baby boomer, you might remember the old TV Series The Adventures ...

Lee Aaker, who starred in the ABC series “The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin,” died this month near Mesa, Arizona of a stroke, according to a Facebook post from fellow former child actor Paul Petersen. He ...

The very mention of the name Rin Tin Tin evokes in most people the image of a strong, intelligent, heroic German Shepherd dog. The original Rin Tin Tin starred in 30 movies and his direct genetic ...

The rise of Rin Tin Tin is a classic only-in-America story, and here's our Rita Braver to tell it: Meet Rin Tin Tin the XXII, spokesdog for the American Humane Association, who recently presided over ...

Lt. Masters is sent to recruit a 100 soldiers to help with an Indian uprising knowing that one trooper in the new group blames Masters for his brother's death and wants Lt. Masters to suffer the same ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Herbert B. Leonard, the producer behind "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin" and "Route 66," has died at 84 of cancer at his home in Hollywood. Leonard, a film and television ...

Born on a battlefield in France during World War I and rescued by a U.S. soldier named Lee Duncan, a terrified German shepherd puppy would become the most famous dog in the world. Named Rin Tin Tin, ...

Rin Tin Tin died in 1932. It was reported that he died with his head in the lap of actress Jean Harlow, which isn’t a bad way to go, but it was much less dramatic and simpler, according to Duncan’s ...

LOS ANGELES (CN) - A Texas dog breeder fraudulently obtained trademarks for Rin Tin Tin, a federal judge ruled, and canceled nine of them. The breeder, Daphne Hereford, has been snarled in numerous ...

Members of the baby boomer generation might remember the old TV series The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, about a German shepherd and a boy named Rusty who lived with a cavalry troop in the American West.