Famous Beagles

You will find information about lots of famous beagles. If you know of any other famous beagles (apart from your own) that we haven't listed here, please contact our web developer.

Snoopy
Probably the world's most famous beagle, Snoopy was a character created by Charles Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts. Charles Schulz got it right as Snoopy typifies the beagle character.
Many people are unaware that Charles Schulz actually wrote about many beagles in his Peanuts cartoon. Snoopy had five brothers and sisters that often came to visit: Andy, Belle, Marbles, Spike and Ugly Olaf.
Brains
Inspector Gadget and Inspector Gadget 2. Brains was the loveable dog that was the companion of Inspector Gadget. Interestingly enough, Brains was a tan and white beagle in the first Inspector Gadget movie and a tricolour beagle in the second. Inspector Gadget 2 was filmed in Queensland where they used two of the stunt dogs from Movie World to play the part of Brains.
Underdog/Shoeshine
This is the latest Disney movie to feature a beagle. Beagles have appeared regularly in Disney movies. Shoestring is a regular beagle who is amazingly given super powers and the ability to talk to humans.
Underdog is based on the Underdog cartoon and comic book.
Lou
From the movie Cats and Dogs. Lou is the beagle puppy that finds himself caught up in canine espionage and becomes the hero when he stops the cats from taking over the world.
Fleegle
Fleegle is the dog character from the hit 1970s television series "The Banana Splits"
Him, Her and Edgar
These were the Beagles owned by former US President Lyndon Baynes Johnson. President Johnson was widely criticised when on national TV he picked up one of his beagles by the ears.
Beagle Boys
Walt Disney's characters from Duck Tales contains a band of criminals known as The Beagle Boys.
Shiloh
One of the favourite childrens movies of recent times was Shiloh, and the adventures of this loveable beagle. A sequel was also made of the movie.
Beagle Beagle
In the Hanna Barbera cartoon Grape Ape, the big purple ape has a constant companion of a beagle.
The Royal Tanenbaums
In this eccentric movie starring an all star cast including Gene Hackman, Bill Murray, Gwenyth Paltrow, Angelica Huston, Danny Golver and Owen Wilson, the family pet in the crisis is their beloved beagle.
Porthos
The TV series Star Trek: Enterprise has a beagle as its clever mascot on the Star Ship.
Eastenders
The beagle features in the British television series East Enders.
The Wonder Years
In the TV series The wonder years the family pet is a beagle.
The Manor Born
The family pet in the British comedy TV series is a beagle.
Buddy
The movie "Regarding Henry" starring Harrison Ford and Annette Bening has a beagle as the family pet who provides some love and affection after the main character loses his memory.
Toby
Toby was the mischievous beagle from the 1983 movie "Used Cars" starring Kurt Russell.
Bagel
Barry Manilow is a big fan of beagles and used one as part of the cover to his ??? album ???. The name of the beagle was "Bagel".
Charles Darwin
The ship that took Darwin on his many voyages of discovery around the world was named The Beagle. That's why you will find lots of beagles out there named Darwin.
Mars Lander
In 2004 NASA sent a landing craft to the surface of Mars. The name of the lander was The Beagle.
Unfortunately, like many beagles, this Mars lander decided to have a mind of its own and NASA lost control of the craft for several days. There must be some really great smells on the surface of Mars.
Apollo 10 Lunar Module
The Lunar module that took astronauts Gene Cernan and Tom Stafford within 50 000 feet of the lunar surface. They said that Snoopy was having a good snoop around the moon to bring some valuable information back for the next crew which was the first landing on the moon.
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare referes to beagles in his play "Twelfth Night".
Batman
Everyone knows the loyal butler of Bruce Wayne - aka Batman, but did you know that Alfred's surname is Beagle.