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 ...

As a puppy, Rin Tin Tin was rescued from a bombed-out kennel in France during World War I. He went on to star in 26 films for Warner Bros., and his descendants carried on the tradition in a beloved TV ...

Lee Aaker, best known for his role as Rusty on 1950s TV series The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin as a child actor, has died. He was 77. Paul Petersen, another former child actor, announced the sad news on ...

A federal judge on Thursday handed a favor to movie makers and a defeat to a Rin Tin Tin lover. Daphne Hereford, who runs an 8,000-piece Rin Tin Tin museum out of her Crockett stand-alone garage and ...

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 ...

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.

Lee Aaker, best known as the 1950s child star of The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin, has died at 77. The news comes via a social media post by former child actor and activist Paul Petersen. Petersen said ...