Terry Duggan

Terry Duggan was an acrobat, animal trainer and stuntman born in Coventry in 1935.

1964: This is Terry Duggan with Sir Robert Fossett\' s four lionesses, one lion and two leopards. The two leopards had originally worked in Bailey Fossett\' s mixed Group of small cats. One was particularly dangerous and was taken out of this act after Belle Vue or during the following season.

I saw the act in 1963 and \' 64. There was only one leopard in the act in \' 64. The lions continued up until the late \' 60s. The male lion that is not pictured sat under the bridge to form the pyramid. His name was Romeo.

Terry Duggan was originally trained by Dick Chipperfield Sr. He worked various animal acts up until he joined Sir Robert Fossett\' s. His most famous act on Chipperfield\'s was the presentation of two lionesses in the bouncer wagon, which was drawn in the ring by an elephant depicting the old style lion act. I remember seeing it and being absolutely terrified as a child. Terry worked for me in 1977/78. He was then doing a trapeze act with his wife. He also did the cannon on Chipperfield\'s.

Jim Clubb

How did they shoot the leopard scenes in '2001'? Dan Richter explains:

Duggan had already worked with the Chipperfield's, a famous british circus, and later joined a member of the family, Jim Clubb, who had started a film animal business and at that time of the shooting of 2001 was operating Southampton Zoo.

From an entry in Richter's entry in the book dated January 2, 1967:
(Kubrick): "When are you going down to the South Hampton Zoo?"
(Our animal trainers from Jimmy Chipperfield's have put the animals we will need for "The Dawn of Man" in the South Hampton zoo. We have tapirs, a chimp, a zebra, a lion, and a leopard.)
"I'm going down this weekend [...] I'm meeting the trainer Terry Duggan and he is going to show them to me.
"Take lots of pictures. I want to see Duggan staging his play fights with the lion and the leopard. I haven't decided which one to use yet."


The leopard attacks Duggan. Richter, the second from the right, is on a platform closer to the camera, between the forefront and the other man-apes in the background.