Actor

Richard O'Barry

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Movies: 16Series: 0Crew credits: 1

TMDB ID: 110920

IMDb ID: nm0639337

Known for: Acting

Born: October 14, 1939

Age: 86

Place of birth: Miami, Florida, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1964 - 2021

Years active: 58

Average TMDB rating: 6.53

Wikidata: Q1674354

Also known as

Ric O'Feldman • Ric O'Barry • Richard Barry O'Feldman

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard (Ric) O'Barry (born c. 1939 ) was first recognized in the 1960s for capturing and training the five dolphins that were used in the well-known TV series Flipper. O'Barry made a radical transition from training dolphins in captivity to assertively combating the captivity industry soon after Kathy, one of the Flipper dolphins, died, committing suicide in his arms, according to O'Barry . In 1970 he founded the Dolphin Project, a group that aims to educate the public about captivity and, where feasible, free captive dolphins . He was featured in the Academy Award-winning film, The Cove (2009), which used covert techniques to expose the yearly dolphin drive hunting that goes on in Taiji, Japan.