All posts tagged Tippi Hedren

Tippi Hedren, actress & animal advocate

By | December 14, 2016 | Actors & Filmmakers, Advocates, Elephants, General, Mammals, Rescue, Sanctuaries | No comments

Tippi Hedren—the actress and longtime animal advocate, who recently published her memoir, “Tippi: A Memoir”—discusses Shambala Preserve, her sanctuary for rescued lions, tigers and other big cats that she established in 1972, and where Hedren, now 86 years old, still lives. Read more…

Tippi Hedren–star Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”

By | July 12, 2006 | Actors & Filmmakers | No comments

Tippi Hedren–perhaps still best known as the star Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” but for more than 30 years she’s operated the Shambala Preserve, an 80-acre sanctuary in California for endangered big cats and other animals, many of which have been abandoned by zoos, circuses, phony sanctuaries or morons who thought it’d be cool to have a tiger Read more…

Tippi Hedren–Veteran actress

By | April 25, 2005 | Actors & Filmmakers | No comments

Tippi Hedren–the veteran actress perhaps best known for starring in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” but for more than three decades has operated The Shambala Preserve, an 80-acre facility in Acton, CA for big cats and other animals–discusses her lifelong love of animals, how making the movie “Satan’s Harvest” in Africa in 1969 launched her on a path to make the film “Roar” and then to create Shambala, where the animals there come from (circuses, zoos, phony sanctuaries, idiots who have big cats as pets, etc.), some of the animal-oriented legislation she’s working on and supporting, the films she’s still making, and more.  [www.Shambala.org] Read more…