Douglas Haig

Douglas Patrick Haig March 9 1920 February 1 2011 was an American child actor appearing in films in the 1920s and 1930s His career began at age two in silent films and unlike many silent film actors continued into sound films talkies From 1928 onward he appeared in at least 14 films As a small child he was placid and pleasantlooking In a scholarly review of Attorney for the Defense a 1932 sound film his performance is described as very annoying The high point of Haigs career as a film actor came in 1935 with a starring role in Mans Best Friend 1935 Before this he had appeared in both feature films and shorts such as The Family Group 1928 Sins of the Fathers 1928 lost silent film of which only excerpts survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archives Betrayal1929 a silent film with talking sequences synchronized music and sound effects and Welcome Danger 1929 In Mans Best Friend 1935 he starred in the lead role of Jed Strong a boy who has a fine dog and an abusive father who wants to kill the dog In 1986 TV Guide described this film as a simple unpretentious story of a little mountain boy and his pet police dog