Beethoven (film) Beethoven (film) Beethoven is a 1992 family comedy film, directed by Brian Levant and starring Charles Grodin and Bonnie Hunt as George and Alice Newton. The film is the first in the series of "Beethoven" films. It was written by John Hughes (under the pseudonym Edmond Dantès) and Amy Holden Jones. The story centers on a St. Bernard dog named after the composer Ludwig van Beethoven and owned by the Newton family. "Beethoven" co-stars Nicholle Tom as Ryce Newton, Christopher Castile as Ted Newton, Sarah Rose Karr as Emily Newton, Stanley Tucci as Vernon, Oliver Platt as Harvey, and Dean
Dog type were described as species by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788, and by Robert Kerr in his English translation of "Systema naturae" ("The Animal Kingdom") in 1792. Today the species Linnaeus named are identifiable as dog types, not species or subspecies. Some, such as "Canis aegyptius", a hairless dog type of Peru, have been documented and registered as breeds (Peruvian Hairless Dog). There are only two categories (subspecies) of domestic dog, "Canis lupus familiaris" and "C. l. dingo", recognized by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN Code). Beginning with the advent of dog shows in the mid-19th century in England,