Hubert G. Wells Dies: Hollywood Animal Trainer For ‘Doctor Dolittle’, ‘Babe’ & Many Others Was 88
deadline.comHubert G. Wells, a longtime Hollywood animal trainer whose many credits include the original Doctor Dolittle, Out of Africa, Babe: Pig in the City and, in 1970, the bizarre kids tv series Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp, died Dec.
25 of natural causes at his home in Thousand Oaks, California. He was 88. His death was announced on social media by friends and animal training colleagues.
Born in Hungary, Hubert Geza Wells defected to the West following Russia’s crushing of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. “Eight years later I moved to California with my Indian leopard and golden pointer,” Wells, the author of the 2017 memoir Lights, Camera, Lions, wrote, referring to the dog-and-leopard show he staged on the East Coast. “A job awaited us, a two-part T.V.
show for the Disney Studios. In the following years my animals and, at times, myself as a stunt double, appeared in over 150 films, T.V.
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