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== In popular culture ==

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[[File:Strongheart-Rice-1921-cropped.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Strongheart]], one of the earliest canine stars (1921)]]

German Shepherds have been featured in a wide range of media.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://reeldogspress.com/gsd-film-list/ |title=List of films with German Shepherds |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216064851/http://reeldogspress.com/gsd-film-list/ |archive-date=16 February 2015 }}</ref>
In 1921 [[Strongheart]] became one of the earliest canine film stars, and was followed in 1922 by [[Rin Tin Tin]]. Both have stars on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]].{{sfnp|Choron|2005|p=40}}

[[Batman]]'s dog [[Ace the Bat-Hound]] appeared in the [[Batman (comic book)|Batman comic books]], initially in 1955,<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Irvine|editor-first1= Alex|editor-link1 = Alexander C. Irvine|editor-last2=Dolan|editor-first2=Hannah|chapter= 1950s|title = DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle|publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]] |year=2010 |isbn= 978-0-7566-6742-9 |page= 77 |quote = ''Batman'' No. 92 (July 1955) Once Superman had a dog, Batman got one too, in 'Ace, the Bat-Hound!' In the story by writer Bill Finger and artist Sheldon Moldoff, Batman and Robin found a German Shepherd called Ace.}}</ref> through 1964.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/search/advanced/process/?target=sequence&method=icontains&logic=False&order1=date&order2=series&order3=&title=&feature=&job_number=&pages=&script=&pencils=&inks=&colors=&letters=&story_editing=&genre=&characters=Ace+the+Bat-Hound&synopsis=&reprint_notes=&notes=&start_date=&end_date=&pub_name=DC&country=us&pub_notes=&series=&series_notes=&tracking_notes=&publication_notes=&language=en&issues=&volume=&issue_date=&brand=&indicia_publisher=&price=&issue_pages=&format=&issue_editing=&isbn=&issue_notes=&is_indexed=None|title=Ace the Bat-Hound appearances|website=Comics.org|access-date=15 September 2014}}</ref> From 1964 onwards, his appearances have been sporadic.

A German Shepherd named [[Inspector Rex]] is the star of an Austrian Police procedural drama program of the same name, which won many awards, where German Shepherd Rex assists the Vienna Kriminalpolizei homicide unit.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dogslife.com.au/dog-news/life-with-dogs/tv-dog-stars|title=TV dog stars |date=17 October 2017|website=DogsLife |access-date=20 February 2018}}</ref>

{{ill|Kántor|hu|Kántor (kutya)}} was a famous and very successful police dog in [[Hungary]] in the 1950s and early 1960s. After his death his story was fictionalised by two crime novels by {{ill|Rudolf Szamos|hu|Szamos Rudolf}}, titled {{ill|Kántor Investigates|hu|Kántor nyomoz (regény)}} and ''Kántor in the Big City''<!-- Kántor a nagyvárosban -->. A five-part thriller series for television titled ''Kántor'' was produced in 1975, which was loosely based on the actual dog's story, setting the events more than a decade after the real Kántor died. It became one of the staple productions of Hungarian television history, making German Shepherds the most popular dog breed in the country ever since. The [[taxidermy]] mount of Kántor's body is on display at the Police Museum in [[Budapest]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rendormuzeum.com/valogatas-mutargyainkbol|title=Kántor|website=Police Museum of Budapest|access-date=19 August 2021|language=hu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.azenkutyam.hu/elet/kantor-a-rendorkutya/|title=Kántor: a leghíresebb magyar rendőrkutya története (Kántor: the history of the most famous Hungarian police dog)|date=8 August 2020|website=Az Én Kutyám|language=hu|first=Enikő|last=László}}</ref>