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7-Foot-Plus Actor Matthew McGrory Dies
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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-actor 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.
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Thats too bad, I had seen him in a couple of movies and i liked him a lot. But than again, people who are that tall, typically die young. Although, it would be interesting to see what will happen to the movie about Andre the Giant.
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Im just glad he was able to get some big exposure through Big Fish, because I would just feel really bad if his claim to fame revolved around being on the Stern Show in the 90's.
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He was in a lot of stuff. The first time I remember seeing him was in the video for "Coma White" and I'll always remember him as being Tiny. Sucks to hear that news, I would imagine it was related to his multiple conditions?
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jeremyvedder wrote:
poor man. I want to know what the conditions of his death of "natural causes" were
Usually when people are that tall, they die from an abnormally large heart or something along those lines. That would be classified as "natural" causes.
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