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Caveat Lector Elite user 493 Posts |
One of us...dies
Current mood: sad 7-Foot-Plus Actor Matthew McGrory Dies Aug 10, 5:28 PM EST Associated Press Matthew McGrory, the deep-voiced 7-foot-plus actor who moved from appearances on Howard Stern's radio show to a high-profile role as a gentle giant in the movie "Big Fish," has died. He was 32. McGrory died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles, said director Drew Sky, who was working with him on his current movie, a biopic of wrestler-turned-acto r Andre the Giant. Paramedics determined he died of apparent natural causes, police said. McGrory, who had size 29 1/2 shoes, appeared on Stern's show in the 1990s and received other attention from the national media even before he became an actor. He attended law school and showed up in music videos before starting his career in Hollywood B-movies. He played a human Sasquatch in 2001's "Bubble Boy," an alien in "Men In Black II" (2002) and Tiny in the Rob Zombie horror movies "House of 1000 Corpses" (2003) and its sequel released this year, "The Devil's Rejects." His big break in Hollywood came in 2003 with Tim Burton-directed "Big Fish." Ewan McGregor's character refuses to be intimidated by the size of McGrory's Karl character, walking up to shake his hand. Sky said he first met McGrory at a bar in 2000 and had been filming "Andre: Heart of the Giant" on and off for six months. He said that McGrory, who was from West Chester, Pa., felt a connection with the man he was playing, wrestler and "The Princess Bride" actor Andre Rousimmoff, who died in 1993. "He felt the same way, that he would do anything just to be a person of regular size one day a week, where people don't have to stare at him, where he could go see a regular movie and walk down the street," Sky said. McGrory's family and girlfriend declined immediate comment. Not much else to say other than a great person has left this world.
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Freak Prodigy Inner circle NYC & LA 1805 Posts |
It's always sad when as you said " one of us" dies.
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Cholly, by golly! Loyal user 251 Posts |
McGrory had a cameo in the Carnivale pilot. I had hoped he would be a regular.
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Big Jeff Loyal user 300 Posts |
Is he the one Stern called bigfoot?
If it is, he was just on a couple weeks ago. |
Caveat Lector Elite user 493 Posts |
I don't know, but he has been on Stern many times.
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Cadabra New user NYC 58 Posts |
I met him at Chiller Theatre last year and he was so friendly and inviting.
All the people there to see him were greeted with big open arms. He will be missed by many and remembered forever. -Albert Cadabra
"It has always amazed and baffled me that audiences will wait patiently in line and pay good money to have the wits scared out of them." - William Castle
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