Richard O'Barry
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Initially capturing and training dolphins for the Miami Seaquarium, O'Barry rose to prominence as head trainer of the five cetaceans that portrayed Flipper and also worked with the orca Hugo. After a trained dolphin’s death prompted a moral shift, he founded the Dolphin Project in 1970 to educate about captivity and to rescue and release dolphins across the Americas and the Caribbean, later earnin…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources