Bart the Bear
Bart the Bear ( born January 19, 1977 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, † 10 May 2000 Park City, Utah, United States) was a male Kodiak bear, who was involved in numerous Hollywood films.
Beard was born in 1977 in an American zoo, which was not able to raise the animal. When he was five weeks old and about 2.5 kg, decided the animal trainers Doug and Lynne Seus, taking care of the little bear and raise him with the bottle. After he had reached about 150 kilograms and thus was too great to continue living in the house, built the Seus on their Wasatch Rocky Mountain Wildlife Ranch for him a special " bear house ". The stuntman and animal trainer Monty Cox discovered the bear and his coach eventually for use in Hollywood movies. He starred alongside actors such as John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Steven Seagal, Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin. In Jean -Jacques Annaud's The Bear from the year 1988, he took over beside the younger Youk the Bear, the main role.
He had a head-body length of about 280 centimeters and weighed as an adult bear about 670 kg. Bart died in 2000 at age 23 from cancer. He thus reached for a bear in captivity have an average age. He died during the filming for the television documentary Growing Up Grizzly ( 2001). Already in the 90s turned Brad Pitt with him the movie Legends of the Fall. His successors, the two Grizzlybärwaisen Honey- Bump and Little Bart will also be trained for use in film productions. Little Bart the Bear, who had a cameo appearance in the film Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) and a starring role in An Unfinished Life (2005), was named after Bart.
Noteworthy was the non-violent and cordial, collegial approach, with the Doug Seus brought the giant bear to exceptional performance. For the shots in the film The Razor's Edge, he and mentioned his work with Bart uncredited honoring.