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A sepia-toned image of Hubert Geza Wells standing next to a roaring lion. Wells is wearing sunglasses and a button-down shirt with rolled-up sleeves. The lion is seated beside him, baring its teeth. The image is framed with an orange border.

Hubert Geza Wells
Animal Trainer / Author

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Hungarian-born Wells is one of the movie industry’s most respected and enduring animal experts. For the past forty-four years, he has made a living through his company, Animal Actors of Hollywood, by persuading an encyclopedic range of animals to perform for the camera. Wells has trained animals for more than one hundred films, including *Out of Africa*, *Ring of Bright Water*, *Born Free*, *Living Free*, *Sheena*, *LadyHawke*, and *The Ghost and the Darkness*. After having filmed on all five continents, he now devotes his time to writing about his unique experiences in book and script form.