Asta: Asta. Actor: After the Thin Man. Asta was Hollywood's foremost canine scene-stealer, a charismatic dynamo of a wire-haired terrier (real name Skippy) born sometime during 1931. Universally adored by depression-era movie audiences after being cast as the four-legged sidekick of retired private detective Nick Charles and his wife Nora Charles (played by William Powell and Myrna Loy) in the hit detective comedy The Thin Man (1934), Asta became the highest...
Known For: After the Thin Man (Asta), Another Thin Man (Asta), The Thin Man Goes Home (Asta), Shadow of the Thin Man (Asta)