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
Dogo (dog type) the Great Dane ("Deutsche Dogge") as "dogo alemán". In addition, the Portuguese word "fila" is basically an equivalent for the word "presa" and a Portuguese dictionary published in 1813 explains the term "cão fila" as being "a dog that catches a prey without releasing it" - so it refers to the same kind of catch dogs as the Spanish Dogos. In Spanish, French and German, "tipo dogo", "type dogue" or "doggenartige Hunde" also refers to the whole mastiff-type dog sub-group of the FCI. However, more massive and heavier mastiff breeds belonging to the same FCI sub-group are still usually called