Tony Becker
The Cat Herding Commercial - In 2000 the large System
Integrator company EDS made a very funny commercial which showed a group of
Cowboys herding cats.
Cat Herders was launched at the Super
Bowl 2000, promoting EDS
(Electronic Data Systems) as a digital company. The concept came from a popular
business phrase incorporated in the title of the 1997 book, “Managing people
is like herding cats: Warren Bennis on Leadership“.
The herding cats commercial was only aired a few times in the US, and was only
aired during the Superbowl series.
(thanks go to Lindy for helping with some of the info).
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Details below supplied kindly by Brenna Brelie
Global Communications Coordinator
Fallon Worldwide www.fallon.com
The actors/cowboys names are listed below. (Many of them were real-life local
cowboys). The commercial debuted during the 1999 US Superbowl and ran for
a short time after that. Only approximately 60 cats were used in the
actual filming, (with about 1 trainer per 5 cats) and the rest were
computer-generated.
CAST LIST :
Steven Lane
Tony Becker
Mark Brooks
Tim Carroll
David Cleveland
Jeremy Cluff
Walter Doran
Jake Sanders
Kent Wakefield Smith
Susan Smith
Gene McLaughlin
Clif Stokes
David Jean Thomas
R. J. Chambers - Stunts
Brian Burrows -Stunts
Filmography
Shattered Glory (2008) .... CarterFor more information why not check out :
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